Tasting-- Barao de figueira

Name: Barao de Figueira

Variety: Siria

Vintage: Vinho Branco 2014

Origin: Beira, Portugal

Price: $6.95

Winery review: This wine is soft and rounded. It has lemon and light spiciness along with cool acidity. It is an easy wine that is ripe with apple and fresh lemon juice and ready to drink.

Personal Review: This glass opened with a nice strong smell of pears and green apples. The wine had a nice soft feel to it though it had a bit of a dryness to it. The taste was not as strong as the smell and there was little aftertaste. Nice to sip on during a sunny afternoon. 

Tasting-- Ca'Bea

Name: Ca' Bea

Variety: 45% Uva Rara, 10% barbera, 25% croatina

Vintage: sangue di guida 2014

Origin: Oltrepo Pavese, Italy

Price: 9.95

Winery Review: Off-dry with a slight fizz, offering bright berry and mineral notes. Medium-bodied, with a clean, fresh palate and fruity finish. This is a rare, sweet red wine that is wonderful with desserts such as dry pastries, cookies and cakes

Personal Review: The glass had a nice sweet smell to it. It is a slightly fizzy wine with a bit or a caramel/ butterscotch flavor to it as well as a tarty apple taste. It has a pronounced mouth feel with the bubbles that that reach your whole mouth. It had a nice sweet aftertaste. 

Tasting--Alvarez de Toledo

Name: Alvarez de Toledo

Variety: Mencia roble

Year: 2009

Origin: Bierzo, spain

Price: $8.95

Winery review: The 2009 Alvarez de Toledo was bottled just a week before the wine was presented but seems to be showing no symptoms of distress. Balsamic, leather, and black fruits are the principal notes struck by this suave effort that over-delivers in a big way. Like its older sibling, it can be enjoyed now but will have more to say in 2-3 years

Personal Review: The glass opened up with a peppery sharpness in its smell. It had a Dryish medium body to it with hints of an earthiness inside. A smooth finish. Not a huge amount of taste to the glass, not bad but not great. 

Tasting--Codirosso

Name: Codirosso

Variety: 90% sangiovese,7% canaiolo, 3% colorino

Origin: Tuscany, Italy

Vintage: 2015

Price: $7.95

Winery review: A heck of a value in Chianti, this delicious blend of 90% Sangiovese, 7% Canaiolo and 3% Colorino offers up notes of licorice, new saddle leather, black cherry and berry fruit, loamy soil undertones and a touch of pepper and herbs. It is medium-bodied, savory and best drunk over the next several years

Personal review: The glasses opened with a nice sweet raspberry smell to it with a small earthiness in it. When tasting it had a slightly dry feel that reached the edges of your cheeks. The glass had an oaky woody flavor that covered the slight red or black fruit in it. It had an oaky long aftertaste. 

Tasting--The Royal

Name: The Royal

Variety: Chenin Blanc

Country: Western Cape, South Africa

Price: $8.95

Year:  2015

Winery Review: The 2015 Chenin Blanc offers loads of melony fruit interspersed with hints of honeysuckle and peach. It is delicious, crisp, fresh, lively, and a dead ringer for a good Loire Valley Chenin Blanc. Drink it over the next year

Personal Review: The wine opened with a nice wet and soft green apple scent. In tasting it had a nice soft body, and about midway between sweet and dry. It had a the green apple flavor mixed with a peachy twinge. Little aftertaste and acidity. It was quite refreshing and great for a light afternoon glass.

Tasting -- alpha omega

Name: Alpha Omega

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country: Nappa valley California

Year: 2014

Winery Review: 
Color: deep shiny dark cherry with touches of magenta on the rim
On the nose: explosion of boysenberry, cassis and ash with touches of potpourri, macerated cherries, herbs de Provence and nutmeg.

On the palate: soft velvety entrance evolving on dense but soft tannins with touches of plums and blackberries lingering on clay and blueberry

Personal Review: The wine had a smooth rich full bodies smell of dark fruit and a slight wood smell. It had a delicious full taste of black berries and blue berries with a nice lingering taste with a smooth aftertaste. It has a smooth full bodies feel to it. enjoyed with steak and asparagus.

Tasting -- Hall

Name: Hall

Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon

Year: 2014

Price: $157.5 current market price

Country: Diamond mountain district california

Winery Review: Opaque purple, it offers up beautiful notes of chocolate, espresso, blackberry and cassis. The wine hits the palate with a gush of deliciously pure, unctuously textured fruit and offers up full body, a multi-layered mouthfeel, and a long, long finish, nearly disguising some serious structure and tannin. This is a gorgeous, classic Diamond Mountain wine to drink over the next 25-30+ years.


Personal Review: This wine had a rich full bodied smell. It had a smell of dark fruit and a little sweetness to it. It had a full bodied rich taste that hit all sides of the mouth. Its fruity flavors were pronouced of a sweet blackberry. It had a smooth after taste that can easily be sipped or drunk like water. Eaten with steak and asparagus.

Tasting -- Carnivor

Name: Carnivor


Variety: Zinfandel

Year: 2015

Price: $9.99

Country: California 

Winery Review: Carnivor Zinfandel is a captivating combination of full-bodied flavors and elegant spice. Bold notes of dark cherry and blackberry jam complement hints of mocha and toasted oak. Carnivor Zinfandel’s rich flavors end with a plush, smooth finish.

Personal Review: The wine has a nice full bodied smell to it at the start, with a dark current and maybe tannin smell. When tasting it has a full mouth feel that hits the sides of your mouth. It had a bold dark berry
flavor with a spicy after taste that surprisingly has a smooth finish.

Tasting-- Farmhouse Sangria

Name: Chateau Morrisette

Variety: Sangria

Country: Dan Virginia

Year: Not specified

Price: $8.19

Winery Review: Sweet Blend of red wine and fruit. Serve chilled or over ice. excellent choice for any festive occasion

Personal Review: The wine had a very soft smell to it of mostly red fruit and a tad bit of citrus fruit. It had a nice soft sweet taste of a red berry. with a longer sip it had a sort of citrus flavor coming out. It didn't have a large mouth feel. Felt very summery.

Taste by itself.

Tasting--Invino

Name: Invino Si

Variety: Pinot Girgio

Country: Lombardy, Italy

Year: 2014

Price: $5.95

Winery Review: Pavia, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy where viticulture dates back thousands of years is home to the Si Pinot Grigio vineyards. The wine is creamy on the palate with a crisp, dry character, fresh citrus and pear flavors and an elegant finish.

Personal Review: This wine opened up with a fruity and pear like smell that was very sharp, almost attacking your nose. When i tasted it, it had a flowery note along with the pear and general fruity flavor. It was soft and refreshing though you could feel the acidity as it attacked your cheeks.

Tasting Fossi

Name: Fossi

Variety: Sangiovese, Merlot, Primitivo and negromaro

Country: Fiesole, Italy

Year: not stated

Price: $7.95

Winery Review: A blend of Sangiovese and Merlot with a touch of Primitivo and Negroamaro. It will remind those who have traveled to Italy of one of the local house wines they consumed while there.  Simple, juicy, and perfect for drinking with or without food, it’s packed with bright cherry, strawberry and cranberry fruit aromas and flavors.

Personal Review: This class had an earthy, raisiny smell to it. Like a dried sunny earthy smell. It tasted a bit spicy with a black cherry and cranberry flavor to it. It had a bit of spice or a sharp kick at the end. 

Tasting-- Layer Cake

Name: Layer Cake

Variety: Grnacha

Country: Calatayud, Spain

Year: 2011

Price: $7.95

Winery Review: The Layer Cake Garnacha from Calatayud, Spain is rich and powerful, yet clean and balanced. Layered with aromas of ultra ripe black fruit. On the palate, the wine shows intense dark fruit with a background of rich dark chocolate and fresh ground coffee with a long creamy finish.

Personal Review: It had a sweet smell to it with a hint of a black fruit and a small spiciness to it. When tasted you can find the hints of the black fruit while also feeling a soft spiciness that kicks at the end. It was a dry wine though good. 

Tasting-- Alvaro Domecq

Name: Alvaro Domecq

Variety: Aranda Cream Sherry

Year: not provided

Country: Jerez, spain

Price: $9.95

Winery Review: Golden-brown in color, this has heady aromas of cola, nut, nutmeg, root beer and caramel. A pure, creamy palate of cinnamon apple, mocha, coffee and chocolate. It's quite smooth and balanced, and very long on the finish.

Personal Review: The wine had a strong piercing aroma to it, with a brandy smell in it. It also gave off a kind of buttery smell and texture to it while smelling, almost as if the wafting air was thick with a butter feel. Tasting it released a soft butterscotch like taste, with an odd after taste. It was good though i think i should have let it air out longer for it to mellow a little.