Caracal Neetlingshof Red

Full body with tannin on back end. Gets better with age.  Lots of plum in nose and first taste with cherry backend and tannin. Black fruit appears later in the pallate with a nice smoothness once decanted.

Smooths out with air.  Still a bit of backwards tanin with lots of plum. 

Espolon Tequilla Reposado

Rich notes of caramel on the nose with bountiful tropical fruit and spice on the mouth feel. Extremely delcious and smooth with a nice complex feel. Rich honey prevades the moutfeel too.

Camraderie Merlot

Beautiful Merlot, with plums and spices on the nose and blackberries on the first part of the taste. Cherries on the back end with a subtle acidity.  Medium bodied and good with food.

Well worth the 21$ I paid for it.

Definite oak tones throughout but not a strong buttery taste, just a bit of spice.

Apothic Dark

Gorgeous oak notes on the notes and throughout the taste. Its quite defined by its oak with tons of chocolate throughout to give it a very very dark feel. This is darkness personified, with just a touch of blackberry on the front of the pallate.

Calcareous Zinfandel

This Zinfandel is gorgeous. Beautiful smell of brown sugar with sweet but dry cherry and a subtle tanin on the finish.

Chocoate appears on the backend and plum appears as exposed to air.

Vistamar Gran Reserva

Big but smooth. Fruity on the nose but a small amount of acidity. Focuses on the red fruits with a smoothness and easy quality. Big overall.

Full body as well, governed well.

Touch of dryness on the end.

Montonico Port

Really excellent black currant on the nose. Some yummy black currant on the front of the tongue with caramel finish.

Plum appears on subsequent tastes

Sweet but excellent. A good quality port for cheap.

Blandys Madiera Rainwater

Rich and buttery,  with a good balance of what seems like pear up front and apricot on the back.  Long lasting.

Quinta do Vale Meao Port 2013

Very smooth and easy to drink. Bountiful flavors of blackberry with the oak aging tastable on the nose and throughout the pallate with a nice chocolate note. Overall fantastic sweet wine from Portugaul with a long lasting finish.

Rilento Inzolia Terre Siciliene

On the fruiter side of a white, has beautiful sweet scents of jasmine with some mango and melon in the mouth feel. Very smooth and long lasting.

pallas garnacha rose

Starts with some cherries evident in the nose and some light but definitely present long lasting strawberry in the mouthfeel. Ends fairly longly with cherries on the backend. Very light and refreshing.... this is really good.

Gattavecchi Vernaccia di San Gimignano

This wine has a good citrus taste throughout and a long lasting flavor. It resides as mostly a dry style white, especially when cold.

This wine is not designed to be overly fancy or complex but is notable for it's long lasting citrus.

Tres Ojos Garnacha

This is really quite smooth and nice of a wine. Deliciously smooth with a fruit forward Cherry profile both on the nose and palate and a spiciness on the back of the palate. Overall, consider as a smooth easy drinking wine, and include it in your once a day daily drinking profile.

Ravensworth Zinfandel Vitner's Blend

Smooth, not over oaked, easy to drink with some jammy cherries on front and rasberries on the back end. Medium to full bodied, and nothing weird, this is the cheap zinfandel you want to drink. Theres a bit of a dry/oaky feel to it but very small.

Gnarly Head Zinfandel

Intense and smooth with lots of dark berry flavors on the front, plum on the back, and lots of spice on the back. Has a tightness on the backend. Smooth plum flavors emerge on the second and subsequent tastes more strongly.

Oak notes are definite throughout.

Podere Paganico Rosso di Montalcino

Subtle spices on the nose with plum and detectable spices throughout the mouthfeel. Pretty smooth with out a lot of tannin structure to it. But not overly fruity. Medium bodied.

There are subtle notes of cherry thoughout but plum is predominant.

Good acidity structure throughout. Long lasting finish. Cherry appears more on subsequent tastes. The asian spice really makes this wine special.

Latitud Reserva

Kinda really good. Blackberry on front chocolate appears in after taste. Smooth but dry with a touch of acidity. A refreshing pairing with beef. Some chocolate also detectable on the nose.

Finca Los Maza Tonconogy Malbec Merlot

Deliciously smooth with nice red fruit on the nose, medium bodied red berry feel on the mouthfeel and a subtle dry tannin finish. Finish has a bit of vanilla on it and there is a bit of chocolate detectable on the nose.

Firebrand Pinot Noir

Basically its an abundantly smooth, tart sided red fruit oriented, pinot noir. Perfect honestly for your everyday.

Fairwinds howling gale

Citrus ipa with pine notes on nose,  citrus mouthfeel and a malty backbone.

Citrus appears more and more as it warms up

Five Branches Red Blend

Fairly good for the price of 7.99. Medium bodied, fruit forward, a little bit of vanilla on the backend from the oak. Very easy to drink up.

Second and third tastes you see the far greater appearance of the oak aging on the wine.

Vecordia Ribiera Del Duero Joven

A dryish wine with excellent cherry on the nose and dark fruit throughout the mouthfell.

Osborn Late Bottle Vintage Port 2011

Excellent plum like texture on the nose transitioning to red berry on the finish. Very smooth and easy to drink with a subtle spice character that creates a dry feeling while still being sweet.

Grand Mascota Malbec 2015

This is your perfect steak wine pairing. Smooth with dark fruits on the nose and red fruits evoking plum on the mouthfeel. Firm tannins make the wine stay in your mouthfeel for quite awhile and a dry finish. This is your dry summer bbq wine.

Drama Red Blend

This is a dry wine with a high complexity. Accents of smoke and what I can only guess at as boysenberry on the nose, cherry first blueberry second cola last on the palate, and soft but dry tannin structure.

Donnachiara Beneventano Falanghina

Apricot and pear appear on the nose and carry through to the pallate in a nicely floral smooth and citrus centered white. Great dry wine, but not for Pinot Grigio drinkers. Meant more for unoaked chardonnay lovers.

Whispering Angel

Strawberry,  peach, and flowers on the nose.  Strawberry mouthfeel with orange citrus on backend. Light and dry but with long lasting appeal. 

Pisano Tannant RPF

Nice, dry, and tannin filled with good fruit.

In the mouthfeel it starts with cranberry at the beginning with blackberry at the backend of the tongue feel. Theres a bit of smoky nose as well.

Justin cab

Dry but smooth this cabernet opens with toasty oak aromas with a bit of red fruit. Dry and smooth throughout with a subtle strawberry finish.

Offley 20 year port

This is quite a treat honestly. Fruitcake and raisins in the nose. Smoothness in the mouthfeel without the harsh alcohol. Focuses on the tawny vanilla, caramel, raisiness. Honestly it was completely utterly amazing, omg

Second taste maintains the fruitcake and raisins in the nose but offers much richer plum in the first taste of the mouthfeel. Smooth and sweet finish.

Sobon Estate Reserve Zinfandel

Notes of leather and dark fruit on the nose with bountiful forward BlackBerry in front and earthy characteristics on end. 

Powerful and long lasting,  this Zinfandel also has a nice elegant characteristic of being well balanced.

In third taste mint appears on the backend.

Overall,  it comes across as a more rustic wine perfect for the harvest.  

La Mascota Malbec

Blackberry, smooth but dry tanins.

Respaldy Muscat St. Jean

Total Wine Description:

SWEET . APRICOT . PEACH . MEDIUM-BODIED

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Beverage Dynamics-Minervois, Languedoc, France - "A rich, mouth-filling--- yet medium-bodied---

 Muscat with notes of lychee, apricot and apple blossom. 

Always the bold variety, this Muscat is intensely packed with dried fruit and fresh honey notes, and is a perfect dessert pairing or on its own."

My own experience:

Honey is first on the palate with pear on the backend on first taste. Notes of peach hit my pallate on the second taste with a nice subtle floridity on the nose. As it warms up you get a greater sense of floridity on the nose and apple flavors start to pop out nicely.

Castillo de Clavijo Rioja reserva

Oaky nose with red berry on front and long lasting vanilla chocolate on back.  Light and refreshing,  this makes a good porch sipper on a hot day. Well integrated tannins on backend for a dry finish. 

Radius Eclipse

A big wine with lots of flavor. Dark fruit forward with a chocolate vanilla backend. Blackberry is the predominant fruit that stands out.

Saldo Zinfandel

Really kinda ridiculously good. Black licorice and black cherry on the nose. Luscious feel as you take your first sip on entry. Nice and smooth with detectable spices and cherry throughout. Smooth by subtle drying tannins on the back end and a long lasting jager feel.



This is kinda really really good.

Black as your soul adroit theroy

This is a thinking man's beer meant to be sipped. First taste I was like wtf. Second taste was coffee tones on nose with dark fruit on front tongue

Space Dust IPA

Dry,  citrusy,  bit of vanilla.  Very classic structured.

Firestone Walker Parabola

Really good,  sorta matches what product describes it self as.  Doesn't really fake,  it is what product says it is

Redneck Wedding Lickinghole Creek

Raisins in the nose with plum on front part of palate and caramel on back. Nice and complex, let to get to room temperature.

Blue Mountain Hopwork Orange

Not much nose.  Strong orange flavor throughout. Low but present hop.

A3 red blend

Cherry is predominant on this on front of tongue and somewhat fruit forward. Slight spice and blackberry on backend with smooth finish.  Good Chianti substitution.

Ch Vivonne Bandol

Beyond belief good.

Peaches on nose and front transforming to citrus and an almond backend.  Lasts forever and super good.

Second taste more almond on nose with peaches on the palate. This transforms in your mouth.

Cruse Rose

Very bubbly.  Strawberry on nose and apple finish.  Crisp and refreshing,  this rose is better than it's price point.

Flying Fish Blueberry Braggot

Very focused on the honey throughout with blueberry undertones. Much better room temperature with a long lasting blueberry finish.

40 mile IPA

Peachy on the front of the palate pineapple on the back. This is a frutier style IPA that is perfect for the summer =)

Federalist Bourbon Barrel Red Blend

Whats particularly great about this wine is the long lasting fruit manages to pop out from the bourbon on the aging. Its big, long lasting cherry that you receive in the mouthfeel with an excellent smell and a nice acidity. Caramel, vanilla from the bourbon finishes this beauty on the backend of the palate. As the wine matures, you get much more caramel on back end.

Capriccio Sangria

As advertised in terms of taste.  Fruity on the nose with pineapple and pomegranate scents.  Pineapple first, orange last.  With a crisp finish to the bubbles.  Some of the four loco hype comes from the bubbles making the alcohol digested sooner and the fact that one small bottle is the equivalent to two glasses of strong cabs

New Belgium Hemperor

Highly floral and aromatic with good earthy tones.  The crisp long lasting citrus makes this a refreshing drink on a summers day

River Road Pinot Gris

Lighter style,  fruity,  pear in front peach back. Smooth and easy. Second and following glasses have more apricot in the front and peach in the back. Still smooth and fruity. Pear intercedes some 

Waldo Special Ale

A drier hoppier IPA. This is unique because even though it's fairly strong, dry, and hoppy, you get a fairly long lasting malt citrus quality to this that provides refreshing flavor.

Stone Scorpion Bowl IPA

Hop is slight, fruit is strong. VERY refreshing and crisp. Long lasting fruit. Citrus oriented.

Three notched Minute Man

Hazy golden color with terrific orange citrus flavor.

Dragon and Yum Yums

Almost cranberry esc. in color and flavor first on tongue,  pear appears on back.  Really refreshing and fruity.

Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Cru

I truly really enjoyed this one. It has a rich mouthfeel loaded with wonderful cherries and a finish of caramel. Basically throughout toffee on nose, rich caramel, cherries complex. Worth sipping in a whiskey cup. What's nice is it has a gorgeous color that is dark orange with a nice crispness fruit.

Olema Pinot Noir

Not overly sweet, more dry. Focuses on lighter more red fruits versus darker. I gather more cherry and strawberry notes than anything else. Little spice on the back end.  Not overly heavy or full.

Ch Los Boldos Cab Tradition Reserve

Medium to full bodied fruit forward cherry centric cabernet. There is sort of a rustic earthy feel with the tannin on the backend. Raspberry hits you more on backend as well

Chateau Belingard Bergerac Rouge

Blackberry, oak in the nose. Blackberry cherry interceding lusciously and smoothly in the mouth feel with a smooth earthy finish. A much drier style too.

Second taste focused more on the cherry for me, as an earthy dry cherry wine.

Bushmills Whiskey

Very smooth with a ton of vanilla.

Grand Pacific Chardonnay

You get strong lemon on the nose with subtle apple coming second. In the mouthfeel lemon dominates front, apple middle and a pretty crisp finish. It is really owned by the citrus though moreso than the butter.

Taste 2. The mouthfeel is still largely dominanted by the citrus, but the apple comes through a little more with butter appearing on back.

Taste 3. Butter emerges stronger in later tastings.

Decoy by Duckhorn Cabernet

I'm a few drinks into this while writing this, so forgive me if I'm not perfect on my tasting note here. But, I get by in large a drier style medium bodied cab with plum on the front of the palate and cherry on the back. It's relatively smooth with more of a stick to your teeth style tanin. You get a bit of an herbiness, although I am not sure I qualify it as an olive flavor like the Total Wine and More website suggests.

Ainsley Brae Scotch Whiskey

I get a lot of vanilla in smell.  Cherry not as prevalent easily

Moet and Chandon Imperial

Nose is not too strong,  slight breadyness, citrus drying feel with a little apple.   Smooth and easy finish.

Offley Ruby Port.

Full of rich velvety dark fruit throughout. Drink like a liqour. Can smell strong alcohol.

Rombauer Chardonnay

Light oak and apple in nose,  can detect the pear in mouthfeel with the citrus at back and a long finish.  Nose feels light at the moment but flavor is good and it is ultimately a drier chardonnay. 

Definite acidity that defines this with peach coming out in nose second round as warmer.

Crow Canyon

Actually a really nice cheap medium bodied cabernet.  Fruitier than dry with strong cherry and acidity. Fairly long lasting.

Hot to Trot Red Blend

Nose is kind of bland like. Cherries predominant in mouthfeel. Mocha on back end. Its ok really, but not super great. On the sweeter side.

Truth and Valor Zinfandel

Red fruits in the nose, luscious cherry that costs the tongue with plum backend.  Not heavy but very strong backend bite with a bit of dry tannin feel.  By in large, its an oaky berry nose on average, plum and cherry do intercede throughout and strong dry finish.

Joel Gott

Blackberry focused cabernet with tannin creating a dry overall structure. Mocha backend and finish. Long lasting. 

Darkhorse Cab

BlackBerry front and dominant with firm tannin and cherry back of the tongue. Cocoa hits back of the tongue. 

Carnivor Cabernet

BlackBerry nose and first part of tongue.  Hints of cocoa  both on finish and on nose,  and dry finish.

Seven Rings Cabernet Oak Knoll

Subtle herb and black currant on the nose. Plum on the front of the tongue and black currant, sweet herb, that intercedes in the middle with a dark fruit finish. Very smooth with lingering but polished tanins. Extremely long lasting and on the smoother side. Powerful fruit but the tanin makes it a little dry.

Truth and Valor Cabernet

Medium bodied. Dark fruit on the nose with a little bit of leather. Cherry on front with cassis/warm dark fruit in the middle. Subtle chocolate on the backend. Very Very VERY VERY VERY SMOOTH and lingers awhile. Long cherry flavor on the second and third tasting. Alternates between cherry and dark fruit in subsequent tastings with chocolate sneaking in there occasionally. The smooth polished tannins leave a bit of astringency in the mouthfeel while still being abundantly smooth.

14 Hands

Subtle nose.  Medium bodied.  Black cherry fruit in mouthfeel with subtle baking spices.  Tannin giving a drying feel but round because it doesn't explode like crazy in the mouth, moreso like a smooth astringent taste. Little cinnamon on nose. 

Dreaming Tree Crush

Had it at TGIF with friends.  Carmel on nose red berry front tongue caramel back. Little grip.

Red Diamond Tempremental

Smooth. Not tons of fruit.  You get a little cherry on the nose with some oak.  Cherry predominates the mouthfeel with not too much acidity.  Smooth shorter finish. Second try.  Nose nothing to write home about.  Much more black currant in mouthfeel smooth still.  Not too much acidity or tannin or dry. Slight chocolate. 

St. Amant Zin 2

Cherry predominant and somewhat jammy. A little bite on the backend. Its almost easy to confuse I think for cherry. But you could also say a really ripe jammy rasberry that pervades it, or a unique red fruit in general. Its ripe, not necessarily very smooth.

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Kunde Zin x2

Tried it without notes.  Blackberries in nose.  Blackberries and rasberries in mouthfeel with a little black cherry finish. Almost peppery on end too. Just without notes,  blackberry first red berry last bite on end. 

The Death of Cthulhu

Strong coffee malts detected throughout. Some dark fruit in the mouth feel. Honestly dominated by coffee.