A barbera gone wrong

One of my best friends and I come up with the greatest ideas of all time when we are drinking so I can be forgiven for thinking great ideas are born of drinks. This is one such idea I had and executed upon while drinking.

I am pretty sure this is the taste of gruel so why am I still drinking it? Cause I am the kind of person who doesn't believe in wasting a bottle.

I'll admit it took me 3 glasses to smell this but it smells like spice and blackberries.

What it is, is a barbera. I became a little wine snob when I moved to California then visited Italy. Barberas are supposed to be fragrant, tasty, medium-bodied, great for steak dinners. This one is meh, I'm just not a fan but I'm also not a fan of posting mean things about someone else's hard work so I rather people taste it and maybe counter or confirm my palette. I'll look for some way to add a ranking feature here for my phantom visitors to rank the wines.

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