Varietal: Blend - Malvasia di Candia, Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia del Lazio, Grechetto
Region: Frascati
Country: Italy
Year: No year
Price: $7.95
"Vintage Cellar" Review: "Produced from a selection of the best grapes located in the Frascati Doc production area. Made from 45% Malvasia di Candia, 15% Trebbiano Toscano, 25% Malvasia del Lazio, 15% Grechetto (Greco). Intense yellow color with greenish reflections. Characteristic persistent fresh and fruity aromas. Excellent as an apertif and paired with fish, seafood, or white meat."
My Review: Very pale in color and smells like a brut champagne upon first impression. The weird thing about this wine was that I thought it was both sweet and dry at the same time. It might have been the fruit components of the wine that made it seem sweeter. It had a very light body that may make it a great pair with seafood. I thought I may have picked up on some pear as well.
Tasting #2: Morro Bay White Oak Estates Chardonnay
Varietal: Chardonnay
Region: Lodi, California
Country: United States
Year: 2009
Price: $5.95
"Vintage Cellar" Review: "Vanilla cream soda nose with a slice of fresh cut pineapple. Full body, tropical fruit, spice and pleasing vanilla oak note linger in the finish. Sweet flavor on the palate is from sur-lie aging the wine on the primary yeast lees for 7 months. A versatile style of wine that can be served chilled with fine cuisine or a glass with friends. Certified Green by Lodi Rules Sustainable Winegrowers."
My Review: This was a very nice wine for me! It had a great oaky flavor with a little bit of vanilla flavor in it. I found it to be very smooth on my palate and easy to drink. I really liked this wine.
Tasting #3: Coreto Tinto
Varietal: Tinto
Region: Lisboa Region
Country: Portugal
Year: 2008
Price: $6.95
"Vintage Cellar" Review: "This red from the Coreto range has loads of dark berry fruit with a hint of new oak creating a soft, velvet structure that makes it very easy to drink. Red currant and juicy acidity."
My Review: I definitely picked up on the currants, cherry, and spice flavors in this wine. I really liked this wine as well. I thought it had great complexity of flavor and a great mouthfeel. I didn't really want to use the word "smooth" because it didn't seem quite right but something about the structure of the wine made it feel very nice in my mouth.
Tasting #4: Charles Thomas Cotes-du-Rhone
Varietal: Cotes-du-Rhone
Region: Cotes-du-Rhone
Country: France
Year: No year
Price: $8.95
"Vintage Cellar" Review: "Wine Advocate, 87 pts. From a 140+-acre estate near the well-known Cotes du Rhone village of Point Saint Esprit emerges this juicy Cotes du Rhone, a blend of 50% Syrah, 40% Grenache and 10% Mourvedre. Well-made, with loads of berry fruit and a heady, meaty, peppery nose with a hint of Provencal herbs, the wine is fresh, lively, and best drunk over the next 2 years."
My Review: The first thing I wrote down about this wine was that it smelled funny. I couldn't quite pinpoint what exactly the aroma was but it was very off-putting. It had an interesting flavor that I also couldn't quite describe. This is my second or third experience with a Cotes-du-Rhone and I have not liked them so far. It might just be the varietal. There's some sort of flavor in them that my palate doesn't particularly like.
Tasting #5: Lost Vineyards Spumante Dolce
Varietal: Moscato
Region: Unknown
Country: Italy
Year: No year
Price: $4.95
"Vintage Cellar" Review: "Pale silvery straw color. Floral aromas of apples, peaches, and potpourri follow through on a round, frothy entry to a fruity medium bodied sweet wine with a good depth and tangy peach fruit and a breezy, harmonious green apple kissed finish."
My Review: Very floral aroma and flavor. I do not know a lot of about Moscatos but it seems that that floral component is very common in them. It was very sweet as well. Wasn't a huge fan of this one. All I could get from it was intense floral flavor and extreme sweetness.
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