Wine Tasting Blog #3

 

Wine Name: La Vieille Ferme Rose Wine

Country: France

Region: Rhone Valley 

Varietal: Grenache, Syrah, and Cinsault

Year: 2021

Price: $8.99

Online Review/Critique: The online review of this wine from, https://www.reversewinesnob.com/la-vieille-ferme-rose, they describe both the aroma of this wine gives a fruity smell, particularly a melon, strawberry, and tomato aroma. The taste on the other hand they specified that it had very much of a berry, cherry flavor with a tart finish to balance it out.

My Review: For me, as soon as the wine entered my mouth it left my mouth watering extremely. This alongside having clearly tasting the alcohol within the wine from the grapes. This is due to two of the three types of grapes, Grenache and Syrah, having high alcohol characteristics making the alcohol more noticeable (pg. 117 & 172, Wine Folly). The flavor of the wine was not to my liking at all. The tartness from the grapes, specifically the Syrah grapes, felt a little overwhelming and since none of the grapes have any sweetness to them for me it didn't balance out the wine (pg. 100, 117, and 172 Wine Folly). The flavor gave off a sort of minty and a mix of a bunch of different berries, where none truly stood out. The only berry flavor I could sort of tasted after a while was a mix between plums and strawberries (117 & 172, Wine Folly). This mix of strawberry and plum in my mouth really through me off with how it tasted, and I love both of these fruits, but mixing them together was not a pleasant experience for my taste buds. The wine was the most bodily wine I have had so far in my journey into wine, and having tasted a fuller bodied wine, it was a pleasant experience besides the flavor (117 & 172, Wine Folly).

The smell of the wine has an abundant fruity and minty scent to it. The fruity aspect of it would be more on the berry side of fruity. Specifically, the aroma gave off a slight strawberry and cherry smell to it. However there was an underlying smell that I could not completely describe but almost like chocolate covered mints. The Syrah grape specifically, described in Wine Folly on page 172, that these grapes have an aroma/flavor of milk chocolate.

I did not have this wine with food. however, I do feel like this wine would definitely go best with a meat meal like steak. There is no sweetness in the wine at all and I believe the tartness of the wine and the flavors of the steak will balance each other out to make for an incredible dinner meal.

I did not particularly enjoy this wine by any means due to the flavor, however experiencing a more bodied wine has given me appreciation towards them and will try fuller bodied wines in the near future because of this.