Wine Tasting 4/13

 

 Name of Wine: Barefoot Red Moscato

Varietal: Muscat

Region: Modesto, California

Country: USA

Year: 2014

Price: about $7

Online Wine Review: https://www.influenster.com/reviews/barefoot-red-moscato 

Review:

        Smell- I know I labeled this smell, but like I started the rest of my blogs I want to first describe my first impression of the wine. I first observed its color and I would describe it as a pale ruby based on the Wine Folly wine color chart(https://winefolly.com/deep-dive/complete-wine-color-chart/) which is usually the appearance associated with pinot noir. Now, when it came to the smell, it smelled delicious. It smelled like berry fruits, specifically raspberry, cherry, and strawberry.

 

        By Itself (6/10)- So I had this wine when I went home, so I just found the cheapest wine I could find in my mom's little wine cellar/collection thing and ask if I could drink it. She doesn't drink that often, so this wine was pretty old and could possible have been kind of expired I'm not totally sure. So when I drank it I didn't think it was too bad, I definitely got hints of cherry and raspberry, but it also tasted a little off, which is why I thought it could be expired. It was also very sweet, which I like but like I previously stated it tasted a little off which is why I'm giving it a 6 out of 10 rating.

Wine Tasting 4/12

 

 Name of Wine: Fleurs de Prairie

Varietal: Rose

Region: Languedoc

Country: France

Year: 2022

Price: about $15

Online Wine Review: https://thecheekyvino.com/fleurs-de-prairie-rose-is-almost-too-pretty-to-drink/#:~:text=The%20Fleurs%20de%20Prairie%20Ros%C3%A9%20has%20a%20beautiful%20salmon%20colour,the%20wine%20is%20super%20refreshing. 

Review:

        Smell- My first impression of this wine is that its a light salmon color. When looking at the Wine Folly wine color chart (https://winefolly.com/deep-dive/complete-wine-color-chart/), I believe it looked most like the pale salmon, which is usually the color of Provence rose and zinfandel. And believe it our not this is a Provence rose, which means the color chart is pretty accurate. Ok, onto the smelling, when I smelled this wine it got hints of berry fruit, citrus fruit, and floral aromas. More specifically notes of strawberry, grapefruit, and rose flower.

        

        With food (1/10)- So if I'm being honest I knew this was going to taste bad with the food I was eating, but I was at a get together and the wine was brought after we had already eaten a bunch of sweets. See what I'm getting at, I knew from this class that this wine was an Old World style rose which tends to be a dry wine, vs a New World rose that tends to be a sweet wine. So when I tried this wine after eating a lot of sugary food, it tasted absolutely awful. It was so dry and so so sour, it had the overwhelming flavor of grapefruit, but to be honest it was very hard to taste because it paired so bad with the food. I believe the wine by itself or paired with other foods could be fantastic which is why its hard for me to give this wine such a bad review.