NV Taylor Ruby (Select Reserve)
Posted: 00:50 Thu 13 Jan 2011
Rank
I bought this from Morrison's today in the vain hope that at £6.49 I may have sought out a bargain. Matched up against a similarly priced Cockburn's, with an equally terrible name and the Dow junk Ruby, I assumed it must be the best of a bad bunch of nasty rubies. Having had 'Renown' before, I knew what I was up against and a Cockburn's that is lower than Special Reserve did not appeal.
However, this ranks well below either of those non-entity Ports, into the realms of really dreadful. I can only hope that I had a bad bottle - it had no noticeable fruit, a terrible mouthfeel and an aftertaste that made a previous 'wasabi' jibe seem unfit. I could detect no genuine fault (I maybe wrong), just a rotten bottle of ruby, possibly the worst. Not sure it's good enough for cooking - I buy pretty good mince, you know.
I bought this from Morrison's today in the vain hope that at £6.49 I may have sought out a bargain. Matched up against a similarly priced Cockburn's, with an equally terrible name and the Dow junk Ruby, I assumed it must be the best of a bad bunch of nasty rubies. Having had 'Renown' before, I knew what I was up against and a Cockburn's that is lower than Special Reserve did not appeal.
However, this ranks well below either of those non-entity Ports, into the realms of really dreadful. I can only hope that I had a bad bottle - it had no noticeable fruit, a terrible mouthfeel and an aftertaste that made a previous 'wasabi' jibe seem unfit. I could detect no genuine fault (I maybe wrong), just a rotten bottle of ruby, possibly the worst. Not sure it's good enough for cooking - I buy pretty good mince, you know.