I got a gift certificate to Spec’s for Christmas, which was of course all kinds of exciting.  Even more exciting, when I went to use it I discovered that a Nautico wine I’d been wanting to try was on sale.  Score!

This one is a 2006 blend of semillon  (93%) and sauvignon blanc (7%).  Now, I love sauvignon blancs but hadn’t ever tried a semillon before.  And I’m not likely to try one again.

Ladies, you know how it smells when you get a perm?  That horribly noxious ammonia smell?  Yeah.  That’s exactly how this wine smells when you first open the bottle.  And let me tell you, it’s awfully hard to get past that odor.  I’ve never tasted that perm solution stuff, but I imagine that this wine was pretty damn close.

Maybe I’m unfairly blaming the semillon and it was actually the “tropical infusion” – whatever the hell that is – that made this wine nasty.  Either way, I won’t be going back for seconds.  (A second bottle, that is.  Because of course I managed to finish this one off.  Otherwise it would have been wasteful, and that will never do.)