Okay, so it happens sometimes. You open up a bottle and, yuck. So you open another and all's well.
And then nights such as tonight happen. I had to open four bottles of red wine before I found one that was actually drinkable. Grrrr.
Each of the rejected bottles (from different wineries) was a Malbec and all were thin, with an overwhelming bitter-burned taste to them. Since they were all sold by the LCBO and all released on the same weekend and they all had, generally, the same flaw and they all came from the same country, I am wondering if something happened in the shipment. Perhaps the wines weren't shipped in cooled containers?
Does my description of the wines sound as if they were cooked, or subjected to high heat?
PS: They all have the corks stuck back in the bottle and they are all going back to the store!!