Wine Week Eight Vintage Cellar Tasting (Bricco, Dom, Siema, Carraia, and Beringer)

Hello Fellow Wine Connoisseurs,

This past week was filled with more wine tastings! I got to try five new wines, at the Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, Virignia. I did not eat anything with any of the wines I tasted. I will rank the wines I tasted from 1 being the best to 5 being the worst. I realize these wines are different in about everything, but I still rank them so that I can remember if it is something I would actually go out and buy.

First up I got to taste Bricco dei Tati Cortese 2013. This wine is regularly priced at $10 a bottle but goes on sale for $6.95. This wine hails from Piemonte, Italy. This wine was served cold, and was a clear yellow in color. The smell was a metallic, fruity, flowery, and pear. The taste was a crisp apple, yet bitter and sour. The aftertaste was sour and dry. This wine was not great, but not terrible. I ranked this wine as number 4 out of the five wines I tasted this week. Here is a picture of what it looks like:

The second wine I got to taste this week was Dom de la Foret Grenache Cinsault Rose de Mediterranee. This wine is made up of 50% Grenache and 50% Cinsault. This wine is regularly priced at $13 and goes on sale for $8.95 a bottle. This wine comes from Provence, France. This wine was served cold, The color was more clear than the last, yet still had a yellow tinge to it. The wine smelled like pear, apple, ctirus, with a hint of metallic. The taste was a sweet, crisp zing, yet sour. The aftertaste was zingy, quenchy, and sour. It was much better than the first wine I tasted. I ranked this as number one our of the five wines I tasted this week. Meaning that this one was the best I tasted this week. This wine also has a really cool bottle. Here is a picture of this wine: 

Next up I got to taste Siema Vino Rosso Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo. This wine is regularly priced at $10 a bottle and goes on sale for $6.95 a bottle. This wine originated from Piemonte, Italy. This wine was served warm, and was a ruby red color, and in my opinion was prettier than most of the red wines I have seen. The smell was a peppery, leather initially, and a citrussy or fruit smell that I smelled with another wiff. The taste was dry, pepper, fruity, and cherry. The aftertaste was fruity and dry. I ranked this wine as number 3 our of the wines I tasted this week. Here is a picture of this wine: 

The fourth wine I tasted this week was Carraia Aglianico. This wine is regularly priced at $15 a bottle and goes on sale for $9.95. This wine hails from Campagna, Italy. This wine was served warm, and was dark, almost black reddish brown in color. The smell was of chocolate, pepper, alcohol, and leather. The taste was dry, sweet, strange, and chalky. The aftertaste was dry, fruity, chalky. I really didn't like this wine. I ranked it as number five out of the five wines tasted this week, meaning it was the worst. Here is a picture of this wine: 

The last wine I had the pleasure of tasting this week was Beringer Chenin Blanc 2014. This wine is priced at $5.95, and comes from California. This wine was served cold, and was yellow in color. The smell was pear, sweet, flowery, and cat pee. The taste was sweet, it rolls nicely off the tongue, apple, and pear. The aftertaste was fruity sweetness, mouth rushing, and bitterness. I ranked this wine as number 2 out of the five wines tasted this week. Here is a picture of the bottle:

That is it for this weeks wine tasting. I have another wine tasting this week. I hope that you all have a week filled with wine, and warmth! Hope you all enjoyed reading! Have a fantastic week!
Until next time.

Cheers,

Michelle