#312 It really is Black or White

There are occasions in life when decisions you make are very simple.

Yes or no?

Big or small?

Supersize or regular meal?

Like or Dislike?.

Marmite is a perfect example - there is no middle ground.  You love it or hate it.  Nobody says "oh, Marmite is alright" or "I really have no preference." do they?  The decision is binary.

Similarly, hybrid cars - there are the tree huggers who think that hybrids will save the world, and there are those that think that they cause more damage during the production of the batteries than the entire life cycle of a petrol car.  The view is they are green saviours or the work of Beelzebub.  And whilst he was taking a wee break from making the Prius, having his Marmite sarnie, the devil made a couple of terrible wines - A black and a white.

2009 Berton The White Viognier
Smells of tripe and vinegar.  It is sweet, then citrussy, then alcoholic, then flabby... this is massively horrible.  It is supposed to have various aromas of orange blossom and peach, but these just weren't there at all.  1/10


2009 Berton The Black Shiraz
An innertube and pen eraser shavings, it is really terrible.  More rubber, vomit and a chemical flavour with strawberry chocolate on the finish.  This is the worst wine that I have ever tried.
Many many minus points/10

I know that I'm going to get negative comments based on this post, so before you do, please factor this in.  I wasn't alone in trying these.  I was with several experienced tasters, and these wines showed exceptionally badly against other Australian wines and we all thought they were terrible.