Tasting: Wine Gourmet

Hiiii,

I actually had this tasting on Valentines Day at Wine Gourmet, and just forgot to post about it. This tasting was completely free and a great time. I went with two friends, Sam and Desaray. Our guide through this tasting was named Devalle. (P.S. he told me to tell Boyer to give me an A since they are buddies :)) It was a great time and I started to branch out. We tried six different wines! Devalle picked out this tasting based around Valentines Day and what he thought of in wine when thinking of the day of love. Our tasting went from dry to sweet whites, leading to younger red vintages before older ones. 

These were the descriptions for the six wines we tried from Wine Gourmet. 

Our first wine was Gran Passione Prosecco DOC. This wine was a prosecco varietal. It was from the upper regions in Italy. This was a non vintage wine and the bottle cost $16.99. I always like a good prosecco. It was crisp, refreshing, with a strong green apple flavor. The flavor remained in your mouth and had a long finish. It was yummy and light. 

Tiamo Organic Pinot Grigio was our second tasting. I unfortunately did not get a photo of the bottle before we finished it and he put it away. This is a varietal blend from a vineyard called San Dona di Plave which is between Venice and Treviso, Italy. The vintage is 2022. A bottle cost $13.99. This was very dry (a little too dry for my taste) but the pear flavor was incredible. 

The next wine (shown in picture above very left) was the Los Dos Dry Rose. This was a varietal blend that was 88% Garnacha, 7% cabernet sauvignon, and 5% Merlot. This was from Northeastern spain. The vintage is 2022 and a bottle cost $11.99. I enjoyed this thoroughly. The smell of berries led way for a complete strawberry and raspberry flavor. This was the creamiest wine that we tasted, and had a little tang to it. 

The last three will go in order from left to right in the picture. Our next pour was Tiamo Organic Chianti. This was a varietal blend consisting of 90% Sangiovese and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. The vintage is 2022 from Italy. The bottle costs $13.99. This was aromatic with more of a floral scent and flavor than the others tried so far. It still had the red berry taste as well, but just mixed in with flowers. It was softer than I anticipated it being, and went down smooth. 

The next drink was La Valentina Montepulciano d'Abbruzo. This was a varietal wine made with 100% Montepulciano grapes. This wine was from Abruzzo, Italy. The vintage is 2021 with a cost at $18.99. This was Devalle's exciting wine of the night and my first real step into red wines. It was definitely fuller bodied, but not as tannic as I was expecting. It has a slight pucker feel, and then ebbed into an almost sweet aftertaste. I enjoyed it. 

The last wine we tasted was St. Kilda Shiraz. This wine was a varietal from New South Wales Australia. The vintage is 2021 and cost $11.99 a bottle. This one surprised me the most by the flavors embedded in it. I read the description, and after sniffing the wine could note the hints of licorice. However, when I took my first sip I was not expecting the mocha and chocolate flavor to be so strong, and I loved it. It had a smokier taste than the rest of the wines and was just full of different flavors and spices when I rolled it around in my mouth. I do not know if I would go out of my way to order it on my own, but was definitely happy to have tried it. 

I enjoyed this experience and will definitely be coming back, if for no other reason than to be introduced to new types of wine with different flavors.