The Wine Curmudgeon has been tasting lots and lots of grocery store red wines lately, almost all of them samples, and he is not happy. Why do so many of these wines taste like cherry cough syrup?
These are not supposed to be sweet wines. They're labeled and sold as dry red wines, with alcohol levels of more than 13 1/2 percent. Nevertheless, they taste sweet and sticky, just like cherry cough syrup. Which, frankly, is kind of gross. More, after the jump: