- Name: Emeri
- Variety: Shiraz
- Region: Bortoli
- Country: South Eastern Australia
- Year: N/V
- Price: $9.95
- Shop Review: A relatively light, fresh style of sparkling Shiraz, with berries and hints of chocolate picking up just a touch of sweet vanilla on the finish.
- My Review: Can you say run on sentence with this guy above me, I mean come on can't you just throw in a period every once and a while, it really doesn't hurt to take a breath in between sentences and just calm down for real gosh darnit I can't believe how grammatically incorrect everyone is these days it really just puts me in a little rage fit geez. The wine btw, was incredibly interesting, I have seen very few sparkling red wines and I'll tell you, I was excited to try it. The last sparkling red I had was delcious, it was just like candy. So I took a whiff of this wine and it smelled delcious, sweet, berries, candy, just great. I took a sip and the bubbles immediately took over my mouth, it was cool, nice and fizzy. The taste was initially pretty sweet and I liked it at first, but then this strange bitter after taste came over me and it turned me away from the wine quite quickly. I got hints of banana and vanilla throughout and especially in the aftertaste. I was overall not a fan of this wine, I wanted to be because it was so different, but it just didn't fit right. Sorry sparkling red, you didn't cut it. And for that price? No way.
- And without food? Even less likely of a chance that I'd buy you, sorry.
- Name: Tres Ojos
- Variety: Garnacha
- Region: Calatayud
- Country: Spain
- Year: 2011
- Price: $6.95
- Shop Review: This wine has a brick red color with a bouquet of red raspberries, spice, and white pepper. The palate is incredibly concentrated and rich. The modern styles of Garnacha in Spain are continuously being perceived worldwide as wines of extradordinaryly good quality. This wine is fruity, juicy, and shows a great deapth, ripe tannins, length but yet with wonderful elegance and lightness. Enjoy with sausages, roasted meats, aged cheeses, etc.
- My Review: Now, for the record, I usually try to make my reviews as long or longer than the shop's reviews, but this was one hefty review! It's gonna be hard to top that, so I will ramble on to take up some space before I start my actual review. Did you know that this wine is apparently the #1 selling wine at the vintage cellar? Makes sense now why the review is so massive. Let's get going with our review, shall we? The nose was extremely powerful in this wine, definitely strong on the cherry, and I could literally smell the tannins and the full-bodiedness of this wine just in the smell. The flavor of this was very fruity, with strong tannins and extreme spices as well. A terrific wine. If I could buy two wines this would be the second wine I'd buy, but I can't, sadly.
- Food: nope
- Name: Montebuena
- Variety: Tempranillo
- Region: Rioja
- Country: Spain
- Year: 2010
- Price: $8.95
- Shoppe Review: 100% Tempranillo. Ripe cherry and blackcurrant on the nose and in the mouth. Pliant and seamless in texture, with good heft and back-end energy. Finishes smooth and sweet, with fine-grained tannins providing shape and grip.
Still on the young side but this wine drinks very well with an hour or so of decanting; it's an excellent value for Rioja.
- Myye Review: The nose of this wine definitely reminded me of raspberries, I love raspberries, probably definitely my favorite kind of berry hands down. So you could probably guess that I was pretty excited for this wine. I swirled the delicate wine in my mouth coating every surface with the delightful flavors of the dark red wine. There were light tannins, black cherries, and a mild sweetness. It was very good but I am cheap as hell, so you know I didn't buy this one as much as I may have wanted to.
- OMG you know what I have been forgetting???? The food part of my blog@!!!
Name: Sainte Victoire
- Variety: Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault
- Region: Provence
- Country: France
- Year: 2011
- Price: $8.95
- Shop Review: Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault. Bright salmon pink; typical of the fresh but warm Provence style. Refined and complex on the nose, with summer fruit and floral notes. Dry and crisp, with a delicate flavor and full texture.
- My Review: The nose of this rose had a good bit of apple tints to it. The flavor was also quite appley and citrusy, it was very dry but also light and mellow. A good relaxing wine with little complexity but nice flavor.
- Name: Canyon Road
- Variety: Chardonnay
- Region: California
- Country: United States
- Year: 2011
- Price: $6.95
- Shop Review: Medium-bodied wine with notes of crisp apple and ripe citrus fruit with a hint of cinnamon spice. Delicious complement to grilled chicken, lighter pasta dishes or mild cheeses.
- My Review: The nose of this wine was sort of oaky and spicey though it was not oaked, and perhaps the spices I was smelling was the cinnamon. The flavor was nice and sweet, appley if that's a word, and I got a bit of a peach aftertaste that lingered on my tongue. I actually enjoyed this wine despite its simplicity. I bought this wine.
- Name: Potluck
- Variety: Sweet malbec
- Region: Mendoza
- Country: Argentina
- Year: 2010
- Price: $7.95
- Shoppe Review: Deep red and brilliant with violet hints. Complex, fruity, and predominant red fruits. Easy to drink, round with persistent sweetness, very well balanced with sweet tannins.
- My Review: Smells of this come off as extremely sweet, sugary, and I got the hint of cherries. But upon tasting this wine, I was surprised to find not as strong of a sweetness to the flavor as was in the aroma. Don't get me wrong, it was definitely sweet, being a sweet malbec wine it better be, but the aromas were stronger than the flavors. Honestly, I got a kind of charcoal flavor with the sweetness, I like to define it as a charcoal sweet flavor. Yummmm, like I'm out back grillin' a bottle of vino, or perhaps a malbec grape on open charcoal heat. Good stuff man.
- If I was grillin' there would be food, but I wasn't at the time.
- Name: Domaine de Grange de Payan
- Variety: Grenache
- Region: Cotes du Rhone
- Country: France
- Year: 2011
- Price: $8.95
- Shop Review: Intensely spicy and precise, with lively red berry flavors and a hint of black pepper. The Grenache, which makes up the majority of the wine, is deeper and more powerful, offering cherry and black raspberry qualities lifted by zesty minerality.
- My Review: The smell of this wine was bitter, and gave a hint of used gym clothes (as if I would even know what that smells like...who goes to the gym?). Once tasted, the tannins were noticeably much stronger than the previous. It was very bitter, especially on the aftertaste, it also had a very spice oriented flavor, specifically of pepper.
- I pity the food who is required to read my wine blogs.
