Tasting: Stella Rosa Blueberry

Name: Stella Rosa Blueberry

Variety: Dessert Wine
Region: N/A
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Price: $0

Winery review: Bright ruby color. Aromas and flavors of ripe fresh raspberries, banana cake, menthol, fertile earth, and perfume with a satiny, bright, spritzy, sweet light-to-medium body and a smooth, brisk finish. A rustic berry-flavored wine for emergency refreshment. (Tastings.com)

Wine Folly: There wasn’t a section in the book that appropriately fit into the description of this wine

My review: (Served chilled) The first thing I noticed here was the BRIGHT purple color when poured, and also that it was sparkling rather than still. I had pulled this from the sweet wine section so I knew better than to expect a super dry experience. What I was not prepared for, however, was just how candy-like the wine was. I would not call the experience particularly enjoyable, but the taste made me feel more like a kid at communion or New Year's Eve drinking absurdly sweet grape juice to keep up with the rest of the adults. Definitely tasted like blueberry though.

I tasted this with a meal of pan-fried chicken breast in a heavy cream and spinach sauce.

Tasting: Dreams of Summer Rosato

 

Name: Dreams of Summer

Variety: Rosato/Rose
Region: Brookfield, Wisconsin
Country: Italy
Year: 2020
Price: $0

Winery review: Dreams of Summer is the perfect wine to enjoy in winter—it’s round enough to stand up to bigger meals, deeply colored, and bursting with flavors of strawberry, cranberry, and wet clay. A touch of cream on the finish makes it the perfect pink wine to dream of summertime. (Holiday Magic Wines)

Wine Folly: pg 288, CA Chardonnay: The best Chardonnay grows mostly in coastal regions and valleys up and down the coast that receive cooling breezes and morning fog from the Pacific. Wines offer a richer body, with flavors of pineapple and tropical fruits that are often complemented with tasty oak. (FW: Yellow Apple, Pineapple, Creme Brulee, Vanilla, Caramel)

My review: (Served room temperature) Immediately I'm struck by the profoundly orange color. It doesn't have any of the pinkness that you would typically expect with a rose. On the nose, quite citrusy with hints of chocolate. Almost like one of those blood orange infused chocolates. On the tongue it follows the nose very similarly, no new notes really showed up though it was quite dry. This would be fantastic chilled.

I tasted this on its own with no food.