This page will feature wines that need Wine Disruption. I am not promoting smoke tainted wines, sweet Napa Cabernets and many more wines around the world not worthy of you spending money on.

2026 Quarter Two Wines Disrupted

Well Paso Robles struggles to make drinkable Cabernets and this one is at the top of the class. Bad wine always goes sour over 3 days and look at this transformation.

  • 2021 Austin Hope Cabernet Sauvignon – USA, California, Central Coast, Paso Robles (5/31/2026)
    Day 1: Glasvin Kane. Natural cork. Well is this better than some of the Caymus products. Slightly. There is a lingering artificial fruit flavor on this wine that requires meat or cheese to remove this unpleasant taste. Cotton Candy, spices, chemicals, riper fruits and wood. There is nothing to like in my opinion especially if you apply the tasting process. Drink it like water and it is ok. 69 points
    Day 2: Wow has this gone down hill from the 69. Tastes like fruits sitting in 100 degree heat and stewed at best. Chemicals and artificial flavors really kicking in. Yes Mega purple is being used as well. Wow is this wine terrible or what. 55 points
    Day 3: Well the wine now tastes like chemicals and grape cotton candy. Clearly undrinkable on day 3. 50 points (lowest cellar tracker allows)
    Recommendation: NO! (69 points)

Well if there is one wine under $20.00 that gets more high scores from critics I would love to know what that wine would be. This wine is stainless steel fermentation and in my opinion if you are not applying any wood during fermentation or barreling with Chardonnay then it will not be good. This is no exception.


2024 Diatom Chardonnay – USA, California, Central Coast, Santa Barbara County (5/31/2026)
Even at $13.99 this vintage is not good. Chemical taste with artificial fruit flavors, floral and chalk. Short finish and awful wine. Don’t be fooled by the critics. 94 down to 90 points. Not sure I agree. (72 points)Posted from CellarTracker

Well as MN resident one thing that has always made me think is why we attempt to produce wine? Here is a good example of that and not cheap at all at $25.00.

  • 2022 Alexis Bailly Vineyard Red Wine – USA, Minnesota (5/22/2026)
    Day 1: Glasvin Universal. Well the color alone should tell you how bad this wine is. Thin with easter egg dye, salt, matchstick and chemicals. Hard to believe anyone would buy this wine. Terrible is a complement. 50 points
    Day 1: Easter egg dye and dirt and water is featured here. No serious wine expert will ever say MN makes good wine. 50 points
    Recommendation: Go to the west coast for the good stuff. (50 points)

How can a Russian River Pinot Noir be so bad? Well this one is top 20 worst of the year for sure.

  • 2021 Juggernaut Wine Company Pinot Noir – USA, California, Sonoma County, Russian River Valley
    Garbage. How did the Russian River Valley allow this wine to be produced here? Sweet and artificial chemical tastes. Spices and sugar taste. Boo! (55 pts.)

Well here is a fitting wine to disrupt in April as it is the Caymus of Champagne.

  • N.V. Veuve Clicquot Champagne Brut – France, Champagne
    The new NV is terrible. Chalk, chalk and more chalk dominate this. Light on the fruit and some floral notes. I can’t believe this costs $60. (78 pts.)

2026 Quarter One Wines Disrupted

Wines Disrupted: 2021 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Mollydooker Shiraz Blue Eyed Boy 2021 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon 1858 Napa Valley 2018 Leonetti Cellar Aglianico Serra Pedace Vineyard 

2025 Quarter Four Wines Disrupted

Wines Disrupted: 2009 Saxum James Berry Vineyard 2023 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 K Vintners Syrah Powerline Vineyard 2020 Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2024 Boisset Cellars The Caster 2023 Diatom Chardonnay 2022 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon California

2025 Quarter Three Wines Disrupted

Wines disrupted: Pra Vinera Zinfandel, 2020 Lockwood Pinot Noir, 2021 Carlisle Syrah Papa’s Block, 2022 Simi Cabernet Sauvignon, 2019 Kelly Fleming Wines Big Pour, 2019 Tread Pinot Noir

2025 Quarter Two Wines Disrupted

2025 Quarter One Wines Disrupted

Featured: 2022 Double Diamond, 2019 Orin Swift Cabernet Sauvignon Mercury Head, 2019 Lamarque & 2020 Lamargue2019 Acumen Cabernet Sauvignon Mountainside 2020 Bodega Catena Zapata Malbec Nicasia Vineyard.

2020 Weather Eye Syrah & Cabernet Smoke Tainted