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.