Wine Week Five Tasting at Vintage Cellar (Quintas Melgaco Blue, Prime Brume Garaganega, Grand Cru, Velvet Crush, Dona Sol)

Hello Everyone,

This past week was filled with some more wine tasting! I got to taste 5 new wines at The Vintage Cellar, and did not have any food with any of the wines. I will be ranking these wines in order from 5 being the worst to 1 being the best. I am only comparing these wines to one another and not all the previous wines I have tasted. I hope you have all enjoyed the weather, as it has fluctuated to about all four seasons this past week. Personally, I am ready for it to be spring already.

First up I got to taste Quintas Melgaco Blue, Vinho Verde 2013. It is regularly priced at $10 and goes on sale at $5.95. This wine originates from Vinho Verde, Portugal. This wine was served cold, was light yellow and clear in color. The smell was filled with fruit, steel or some sort of metal, and citrus. The taste was bitter, metallic, with orange or a lemon flavor. The after taste was filled with fruit and oranges. I really didn't think this wine was all that fantastic and ranked it as #3 out of the wines I tasted this week.



Second I got to taste Prime Brume Garganega 2014. This wine is regularly priced at $11 and goes on sale for $6.95. This wine hails from Soave, Italy. This wine was served cold. It was clearer in color than the last, but still yellow. The smell was of lemon and fruit. The taste was a crisp apple, with lemon, and it was bitter. The after taste was bitter. It was not what I would call something I would prefer to sip on, but I ranked it as number one for this weeks wine tasting. Meaning that even though I didn't particularly like it, it was the best out of the bunch that I tasted.







The third wine I got to taste was the Grand Cru, Pinot Noir 2013. This wine is priced at $6.95 a bottle and originates from California, U.S.A.. This wine was served warm. It was red, ruby red in color. The smell was of cherry pepper, leather, and rubber. The taste was of cherry bitterness, with a dry rubberyness that filled your tongue. The after taste was of peppery dryness with rubber. This was definitely not something I liked and I ranked it as number four out of the 5 wines tasted this week.



The fourth wine tasted was Velvet Crush, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah. This wine is regularly priced at $18 a bottle and goes on sale at $6.95 a bottle. It hails from California, U.S.A..The wine was served warm. The color was redder and darker than the last wine. It almost looked like there was a touch of blackness in the middle of it. The smell was sour, strawberry, pepper, mixed with rubbery leather. The taste was of cherry, it was very sour and bitter. The after taste was rubber over your tongue. This wine was the worst I tasted this week and I ranked it as number 5 out of the 5 wines tasted this week.




The final wine that was tasted this week was the Dona Sol Shiraz, Petite Syrah and Symphony. This wine is priced at $6.95 a bottle, and originated in California, U.S.A.. This wine was served warm, and it was burnt red in color. The smell was cherry, pepper and leathery rubber. However, the taste was of cherry and strawberry. The after taste was of fruity notes all over your tongue with a slight rubbery taste. I ranked this wine as #2 out of the wines tasted for this weeks wine tasting.




I hope you have enjoyed my perspective on the wines I tasted this week. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Until next time,

~Michelle