About the Wine: Most wines do not actually need corks. Unless a wine is meant to be aged, which very few under twenty dollars are, a screw cap is fine and is in fact more practical as it is less finicky about how it stored and there is no risk of cork taint. Screw cap wines can be a hard sell because many people associate the screw cap with inferior wine. To save costs while maintaining appearances many wineries have started using synthetic corks. This is a good sign of a pretentious and likely inferior wine. Unfortunately, their is no way to tell whether a wine has a synthetic cork until the cover is peeled off.
About THIS Wine: It is dark in the glass and fades to a violet edge. The nose is flat and indistinct. On the palate it is reminiscent of flat diet soda, which probably makes the finish seem longer than it is.
Drinking This Wine: Whatever you would eat with room temperature diet soda with, the wine should make a good pairing for. I opened this wine and let it sit for a day. When I opened it again the cork popped and released a visible vapor. This an excellent sign in sparkling wine and pretty much the most awful thing possible in table wine.
Overall Impression: Badly overpriced and of low quality, this is basically five dollar wine. Wine aficionados I have talked to say that CMS has some good products. Apparently this is just a particularly bad vintage. It may not even be a problem with the wine itself. Problems in bottling, corking, and storage can all foul a good wine.
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