Wine Number One
Name: Italo Cescon: Artigiano del Vino Variety: Riesling
Region: Italy
Year: 2013
Price: $10.99
Shop: University City Boulevard Kroger
Personal Review: Initial aroma causes curiosity with blends of fruits, specifically peach and apple with a hint of salt and pepper. Tastes of crisp apples and earthy tones allows the Riesling to be a highly flavorful, yet simple type of wine. Would be very good with a pasta dinner or even good for sipping in the afternoon.
Wine Number Two
Variety: Pinot Noir
Region: Italy
Year: 2014
Price: $10.99
Shop: University City Boulevard Kroger
Outside Review: "Elegant flavors of cherry, spice, and rose petals. The long finish goes on and on!"
Personal Review: Aroma is very fruity, yet dry upon initial smell. Subtle hints of apple and pepper are the first tastes that comes when drinking, and as the air passes through the wine stronger cherry, rose and earthy flavors take over. Very earthy, and bold wine.
Wine Number Three
Name: Chateau L'Insoumise: Vin de Bordeaux
Variety: Bordeaux
Region: France
Year: 2012
Price: $11.99
Shop: University City Boulevard Kroger
Outside Review: "Fruity wines with tannins. Ideal with traditional meals."
Personal Review: Delicious Pinot Noir. Very earthy smells along with subtle hints of cherry, fruits and pine. Very smooth taste with initial sip, but the pepper and alcohol content makes the after taste very hot. Lingering taste of pepper and cherry stays with you for a couple seconds after the first sip and the cherry taste really comes out when breathing in after drinking this wine. My favorite of the three that Kroger provided for the tasting.
Wine Number Four
Name: Evodia
Variety: old Vines Garnacha
Region: Spain
Year: 2014 Altovinum
Price: $10.99
Shop: University City Boulevard Kroger
Outside Review: "This 100% Old Vine Garnacha offers a lovely perfume of spice box, mineral and wild cherry. This perfectly balanced mix of flavors lends itself to an intensely fruity wine with loads of taste, a smooth texture, and a pure, fruit filled finish."
Personal Review: Initial smells of pepper and leather. First taste entangled with fruits such as plum, grape, peach and cherries. Second taste gives way to strong cinnamon flavors and the cherry taste takes over. Evodia is my favorite wine that I have tasted so far, and has become my go to for dinner and even a nice wine to sip on a relaxing night.
Wine Number Five
Name: Apothic Crush
Variety: Smoth Red Blend
Region: California, U.S.A.
Year: 2014
Price: $12.99
Shop: University City Boulevard Kroger
Outside Review: "The first taste entices, stimulating the senses, the next taste ignites, arousing the passion. A decadent red blend that combines red fruit flavors with notes of carmel and a velvety smooth mouthfeel."
Personal Review: Extremely earth, tobacco, oak and chocolate aroma when first smelling. Taste is complex and very different that smell however. With strong tastes of apple and cherries, the wine finishes with subtle hints of pepper and chocolate. Very rich and bold wine, and is probably just good for sipping by itself. I would say it is too heavy to pair with dinner, but may go well with crackers and brie.
This wine tasting really backed up my love for red wines an helped me start to appreciate the aromas and blends in tastes of wines. I am very excited to try even more wines and see what bursts of flavors and smells I have yet to discover!!
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