Saturday, May 5, 2012

Wine Tasting 3-6pm Saturday, May 5

Your host is Donna Pace of Gathering Harvest.


Tololo Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 $9.99
A fruit-forward Chilean Cabernet with lots of jammy blackberry, plum, and raspberry fruit flavors, this wine has well-refined tannins within its well-balanced mouth feel. It is softer in style but with a lingering dark fruit finish.

Tololo Chardonnay 2011 $9.99
Has aromas of citrus with a touch of toasty oak. Good and medium-bodied on the palate, with decent acidity and balance. Tastes like spiced apple and melon, with vanilla and mild wood spice on the finish. Well done effort from Chile. Wine Enthusiast, 86 pts

Enanzo Garnacha Rosé 2011 $9.99
This is produced using the traditional "free-run" technique, where the grape must is obtained by gravity alone. It is then macerated for a few hours on the skins to create the wine's deep pink color, but fermented without the skins at controlled temperatures in order to retain the fruit aromas of the grape. The result is a fresh, young wine with bright notes of ripe strawberry, raspberry and watermelon which culminate in a slightly spicy finish.

Clava Carmenere 2010 $16.99
From the cool Casablanca Valley in Chile comes this fantastic Carmenere, full of blue fruit and cassis, exuberant and delicious. Decanter magazine gives it 3 stars and says: "Very enticing and aromatic deep blueberry fruit on the nose. Juicy, open-knit, creamy with ripe tannins."

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