Monday, April 2, 2012



Name: Rosenblum Desiree Chocolate Port
Price: $35 - $16.95

Critic: Our Desiree Chocolate Dessert Wine is crafted i a rich tawny port style with heady, dark fruit and enticing chocolate character. On the nose, chocolate, vanilla and coconut aromas swirl around a rich fruit core, spilling forward through the senses and across the palate. Seductive and smooth, this wine borrows its name from the deep emotion it elicits: desire:

What I taste: Strong rasians and chocolate. It feel like eating a block of honey.


Name: Giard Cabernet Sauvignon
Price: $30 - $ 14.95

Critic Review: Showcase the forward, ripe fruit and fine, polished tannins for which the Napa Valley is most prized. The initial aromatic notes are of ripe red fruit and spicy oak. The flavors on the lush palate follow suit, while the finish underscores the high quality of the fruit from which this wine was made. Enjoy it now, but know that this Cabernet will continue to improve with proper aging for another 8 to 12 years.

What I taste: I feel as though I was eating a ripe passion fruit on the newly polish wooden floor.


Name: Vidal Fleurie Cotes du Rhone
Region: Rhone valley
Price: $16 - $10.95

Critic Review: Brilliant garnet red color. Red fruits and spices on the nose. The mouth reveals rounded tannis (Thanks to the stay in the oak barrels), a warm and full bodied wine with an uncommon and lasting aromatic intensity. The proof that Cotes-du-Rhone can be a serious and elegant wine.

What I taste: Strong fruit aromas with well rounded body wine. Though I did not like the tannic taste, it has a taste of undiscover beauty.


Name: Villa Pozi
Region: Italy
Price: $ 9.95

Critic review: Clear to light straw colored, this Pinot Grigio exhibits soft aromatic flavors of perfumed rose and soft honeysuckle that are attractive and indicative of the refreshing and rounded fruit style. The structure of this wine is well balanced and clean. Wonderfully a complemented by firm and crisp acidic finish.

What I taste: Very easy on the nose like a hint of perfume on the summer night. Light body with a strong acidic finish that can a good pair for red meat.

Name: Fontana Candida Frescati
Region: Rome
Price: $11 - $6.95

Critic Review: The grapes for this dry, clean wine are grown in porous, volcanic soils located in the Frascati commune near Rome. Rich in potassium, this soil produces plump flavorful grapes. Fontana Candida is the only Frascati producer that uses cold filtration and cold bottling to preserve the wine's flavor and clarity. Pairs well with salads, pasta, veal, chicken vegetable soups, mild seafood dishes, and mild cheeses.

What I taste: clean flavor of this white wine bring out the cheese that has almost earthy taste. I feel as though I am walking roman vineyard on a cool spring evening.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Tasting Zentas Malbec


Name: Zantas Malbec
Variety: Malbec
Country:
Price: $8.95

Critic: This Malbec presents a nice deep red color. The nose offers intense and ripe aromas of red fruits, such as dark cherries, plums respberry. On the palate it is fresh and fruity with soft tannins and nice finish. Pleasant and easy to drink.

What I taste: Intense tannin flavors. Very strong fruity taste.

Tasting Ch. Mas Neuf Rhone Paradox


Name: Rhone Paradox
Variety: Rhone
Country:
Price: $11.95

Critic: Intense garnet color. The nose reveals red fruits(respberry, redcurrants) combined with subtle hints of eucalyputus and bouquet garni. Aromas of very ripe fruit, leather and bouquet garni.. The palate is sensual and is distinguished by a good balance of freshness. The aromas of very ripe fruit, leatehr and bouquet garni indiate full ripeness of the grapes resulting. With its subtle tannins the Mas Neuf Rhone Paradox can be tasted now or could be laid down in the celler for 2 to 5 years.

What I taste: Intense flavor with very sweet smell. I love the ripe fruit smell that it has.