I wouldn’t call myself a sommelier of the sour, but just like Sergio I’ve contemplated the good, the bad and the ugly and captured them for posterity. * And it’s not my first POG either, the classic Passion Fruit, Orange and Guava fruit salad of a sour. **
I’m exploring the slope side at Blue Mountain, and that got me thinking while I’m drinking, a dangerous combination to be sure. If it’s a mountain wouldn’t all sides be slope sides? I mentioned this to my granddaughter and I got side eyed, which seems to be the trend for the younger generation. The Department of Sensibility sky eyed me, a nod to her maturity and my lack of it.
A solid orange pour, devoid of any unnecessary trappings like bubbles or head. The aroma is tropical juicy with a smidgen of sour on the nose. The taste is a bright tropical juicer with a touch of tang on the finish, definitely a sour but just. Next swig the juice wasn’t as bright and shiny, the finish fizzy not tangy, everything fading a bit. By the next swig this had turned into a Fanta orange drink. Ironically, the tang disappeared and what remained was Tang!
If you’re going to be sour, be sour. If I wanted a Fanta Orange drink, a totally hypothetical situation because I never would, but if I did, I’d get a Fanta Orange drink. Not a Slope Side sorta sour.
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