TN: A bad Primitivo from Amador

Not familiar with this producer, but I've had some good Primitivos from Sierra Foothills/Amador - usually sold only at the tasting rooms.

One question - were you taking any medication for your illness? I've had some (mainly treating the symptoms), that ruined ALL wine. Often food did OK, but wine - yuck! I don't know what the problems are (I do know that anything with zinc will zink [sic] your taste bubs, especially for wine), but have had to balance medication v wine. Usually the wine wins out, and I just deal with a stuffy nose, etc. The main olfactory components are very muted, but at least it doesn't taste like dreck.

Next trip to Amador, I'll look for this one and try and confirm that it really is as bad as you say.

Hunt

PS in another thread (I think it was the "magazines" thread), references were made to WS's numerical rating. I much prefer your TNs, as they give me a sense of what the wine is likely to taste like (this may be an exception, but not likely). I strongly would rather see this, than a simple #. When I've done the numerical rating of flights of wine, based on all grading criteria, I find that I rate some weak wines higher than I wish to. Since so much of the 100 pt scale is based on color, clarity, etc. an otherwise weak wine, that looks good, gets higher marks than I feel it should. Also, if one grades down, when a wine is atypical of the varietal, but it is otherwise an excellent wine, I feel that I'm slighting a good one. Please keep up your TNs and grading style.

Hunt, I was on an antibiotic last week, but nothing now. I've taken plain Robitussion (expectorant) for chest congestion, nothing else in last few days (I did use zinc/echineachea lozenges first couple days to see if I could ward off bug, but once it was set decided they were useless). I actually took a taste of open bottle of Falanghina in fridge - as expected, good but oxidized. And Betsy tried the Primitivo and said "wow, that's pretty awful, isn't it?" So don't think it was me. I'm not tarring all Amador Zins with same brush-I've had good ones (though all in a rather brash style).

Thanks for kind words. I'm still smarting that Joe R. doesn't find my plumpness (it's definitely there, I tried the Special K pinch) pleasing! (Just kidding Joe!).