Will's Wine Blog

Name: Obsession Wines: Symphony - Mango Variety: 100% Symphony Region: California Country: USA Year: No Vintage Price: $6.00 Winery Review: On the nose honeysuckle, lychee, peach, tropical and elderflower. Love the smell- floral and fruity! Tastes like on the nose with additional stone and orange in the aftertaste. On the palate light, semisweet and low acidity. Reminds me of a dryer Moscato. Love it! (S.S - 3.8). Wine Folly: Wine Folly does not have anything about Symphony but worldsbestwines.eu says Symphony tastes lightly citrusy, with a mild sweetness and acid, much like a refreshing drink. My Review: This wine is extremely aromatic. The mango smell is overwhelming, there is no way to get anything other than mango from this wine. This is fantastically easy drinking wine. It's like drinking mango juice, amazing, and almost syrupy.  I would very much recommend this wine for anyone that wants an easy to drink dessert wine. 

Name: Salmon Run Riesling Variety: 100% Riesling Region: Hammondsport, NY. The Finger Lakes Country: USA Year: 2020 Price: $9.00 Winery Review: Tropical fruit, stone fruit, hints of minerality. Off-dry, a little acidic. Light-medium mouthfeel. Slightly floral and honey aromas complimenting taste. (R.R. - 3.7). Wine Folly: I definitely get some of the primary flavors lime and green apple, as described in the book. This Riesling does not have the petroleum flavors of most. It is much more on the fruity side of Rieslings.  My Review: This wine smells of sour orange, green apple, and lemon zest. I also get a slight smell of sulfur and saline. It opens with a strong acidic punch, but has a nice sour citrus, frailty flavor. Specifically, nectarine, green apple, and pomegranate. Leaves a fantastically light after taste. This is a quality Riesling. I would like to pair this with white fish or a light salad. 

  Name: Yellow Tail Pure Bright Chardonnay Variety: 100% Chardonnay Region: Southeastern Australia Country: Australia Year: 2020 Price: $8.00 Cheese: Swiss Cheese Hay, grass, green apple smell. Light taste, slightly dry and acidic. With a grass and vanilla aftertaste. The cheese makes the wine slightly more acidic and adds to the innate creamy flavor of the wine. This pairing kind of works simply because of the light flavor of both.  Name: Bee You Riesling Variety: 100% Riesling Region: California Country: USA Year: 2021 Price: $10.00 Cheese: Muenster Cheese Smells fantastic. Floral and of sweet honeysuckle. The taste does not disappoint, it tastes exactly like it smells. Floral, honeysuckle, lemonade, and sweet tea. New favorite wine I have had so far. Pairing with the cheese works and makes the wine sweeter and brings more orange blossom taste to the wine. The cheese is creamy and works off the sweetness of the wine.  Name: Chateau Saint-Michel Bordeaux Superieur Varie...

  Some friends came over to my place, a few days back, for our second wine dinner. Each person contributed to this event, either bringing a bottle of wine or a dish. These are the pairings we came up with. The first wine was Gruner Veltiaer Huglweine which was paired with a broiled salmon and baked squash. This wine has a sweet, floral, and citrus smell. It is strongly acidic with hints of lemon. This wine pairs well with salmon. The pairing mutes the taste of both the wine and the salmon, bringing flavors of sweet fruit. And the lemon flavors of the wine seem to work well with the salmon. However, this wine does not pair well with the side dish, it is extremely tangy with the squash. The next wine we tried was Barone Fini Pinot Grigio, which we paired with oven baked chicken tenders. The Pinot Grigio by itself smelled like wet dog food and saline, which was off putting. It had a very light taste, slightly salty, but with no real aftertaste. Pairs very well with the chicken. Mellow...

Name: Muscadet Sevre et Maine  Variety: Muscadet  Region: Loire Valley  Country: France  Year: 2019  Price: $10.00    Winery Review: White apple and citrus. Good acidity and balance. Light-bodied. Long pleasant finish. Good for mussels in wine sauce. - (V.R. 3.8/4).   Wine Folly: From the book I smell the seashell.    My Review: Light on the nose, tangy, sea water. Taste tangerine, lemon, lime, and strong grapefruit. I would recommend this wine.

  Name: Chateau Ste Michelle – Dry Riesling  Variety: 100% Riesling  Region: Washington State - Columbia Valley  Country: USA  Year: 2021  Price: $10.00    Winery Review: Dry white wine made from the Riesling grape grown in Columbia Valley, Washington. Fresh, light bodied and slightly tangy, with white peach and white nectarine flavors. -(F.D. 3.7/5).   Wine Folly: On page 158 of the book, I get the hints of lime and citrus.    My Review: Smell light crisp green apple, fresh, fruit skins and lemon zest. It tastes dry, light, very acidic, citrus, and mineral.

                      A bunch of my friends and I are all taking the geography of wine class together. As such, we all went over to one of the friend's places (who had a big enough table) for a wine dinner. This dinner involved 6 different dishes and four different wines, however, this is only to accommodate dietary restrictions of the group. This is three of the courses and their respective wine pairings.                 Our first course was an appetizer of pan fried wontons, paired with a sparkling Spumante Rosé . This Rosé on its own smells wonderfully of fruit, specifically peach, crisp apple, and pineapple. The wine is dry and tart, the carbonation lightens the pallet. It is sweet forward, and has a tart flavor. I would definitely recommend this wine. Paired with the wontons, the wine cuts the saltiness and adds something to the fatness/oily nature of the wontons, but...