Tasting- Dona Sol Sweet Red Wine

Name: Donal Sol Sweet Red Wine

Variety: Shiraz, Petite Syrah, And Symphony

Region: California 

Country: USA

Year: No Year listed

Price: $6.95

Winery Review: None Listed on the bottle

My Review: The wine was a sweet red wine. It had a nice small dark berry smell to it. It was quite sweet but not overpowering. The rest was smooth and it didnt leave a powerful after taste. Quite easy to drink at the end. Wanted more

Tasting- Pieter Cruythoff

Name: Pieter Cruythoff Chenin Blanc

Variety: 100% Chenin Blanc

Country: Wine of origin: Swartland, Wine of South Africa

Year: 2015

Price: $9

Winery Review: Pieter Cruythoff discovered the Riebeek Valley in 1661 and today we celebrate his discovery of this beautiful area with a tange of quality wines as part of a every day quality lifestyle. this wine from the Swartland region offers well defined fruit with a complimentary freshness to ensure a crisp and refreshing white wine. Drink within 2 years with your favorite light meal or on its own.

Personal Review: This wine was moist and a little bitter,. It was lighter and refreshing. It didn't have a strong after taste to it. It was pretty good. 

Wine blog intro part one i guess. About me and wine. I like wine, it is yummy and taste much better then beer did when i first tried both so i stuck with it. It also helps that my parents are huge wine people, my dad is trying to get his sommelier license and open a store. So I've tired a good number of wines before but now i want to actually try them. I want to know what makes certain ones good to me and be able to describe what I'm tasting instead of just saying its good.The ones i currently enjoy are Cabernet Sauvignon and i think Pinot noir. I'm not a huge fan of whites but some are alright.

I want to know a bit more about them and the types to keep up with my dad. He likes to bring out nice bottles every now and then and sometimes i cant tell why its much better then others, though he'll say they are. I want to try and explore the flavors that can be present in the wines and how different flavors can be brought out through different foods.

Currently I'm not a huge drinker. I might have a bottle over the weekend with my girlfriend, though now we are both taking the course so we can both explore the wine together. When we have drank together we didn't branch out that much and only stayed with the very little i know so i'm encouraged to try different wines with this course.