Vintage Cellar Tasting - Morada

• Name: Morada
• Variety: Sangria
• Region: Ciudad Real
• Country: Spain
• Year: No Vintage
• Price: $4.95
• Shop Review: Morada Sangria is a traditional Spanish drink made with red wine and citrus extracts.  Garnet color and fresh on the palate.  Pasteurization preserves the color, aromas, and flavors.  7% alcohol.  It is a very refreshing Sangria with around 85 grams of sugar.  Sangria is now one of the hottest items in the beverage industry and it's growing exponentially year to year.  Serve well chilled, on its own or with lemonade and slices of fruit like peach, banana, or apple.
• My Review: The smell of this wine was straight up oranges.  Maybe a little floral smell too, but mostly just oranges.  The smell was not deceiving, as the flavor was identical, oranges, oranges, and more ORANGES.  There was also a minty, or maybe herbal aspect to the flavor that gave it a nice bitter flavor to offset the sweetness of oranges.  I also tasted banana, apple, and seriously just like sugar.  It was TOO sweet.  It was like liquid, alcoholic candy.  The amount they gave us for tasting was enough to satisfy me.
• They may not have actually served food with this one, but the flavor was so close to oranges they might as well just have been serving orange slices and sugar cubes along with a regular wine, because that's just how much this wine tasted like over-sugared oranges.
• Also, I would like to apologize for my overusage of capitalization during these past few blog entries, I am just so EXCITED to be blogging right now and screaming at certain points just seems...appropriate.