19 Crimes Cali Rose Wine Review 2/8/23

 

1. 19 crimes Cali Rose; Variety: 75% Zinfandel, 20% Grenache, 5% Pinot Noir; Region: California; Year: 2020; Price - $10.29

1. https://www.vivino.com/US/en/nineteen-crimes-snoop-cali-rose/w/9368797

2. Wine was chosen by Chloe, she comes from the sticks and said this was a good Rose to try. It had Snoop’s face on it and I thought, well, it ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none, let's try it! We paired this wine with a chicken pesto pasta with mushrooms and a side of garlic bread. Now, before I had any food I tried some of this wine… immediately I was struck with the realization that the hot, smelly breath from my grandparents that I always smelled was derived from Rose wine, greatttttt. I could taste how their breath would smell. Anddd I got the ICK.. again. Gross! While attempting to get over the ick, I tried it while I was eating the pasta andddd it wasn’t so bad. Definitely paired better than the Tinazzi wine and pasta with meat sauce. It was definitely a sweeter and more floral wine I have tasted so far. It had 14% alcohol content and I drank mehhh.. Maybe a half full glass of it, as for the rest, Chloe killed it. Good for her. Even so, we were still probably at the same level of intoxication. I have a solid 60 lbs on Chloe and she made me look and feel like the greatest lightweight south of the Mason-Dixon line. This wine was definitely a little smoother and easier wine to drink than the others, and I’d like to try some more light red wines after this. Also, not sure if we were using the right wine glasses, but the selection was limited.

Tinazzi Wine Review - 2/2/2023

 

1. Tinazzi (name unclear), Deep red table wine - Corvina and Rondinella, Valpolicella Ripasso, Italy, 2019, Cost - $19.99

2. https://www.vivino.com/US/en/tinazzi-vinum-italicum-no-3-opera/w/1103243?year=2020

1. Not good, my palate was ruined, did not pair with my spaghetti with meat sauce. The wine was at about 76 degrees Fahrenheit. I would much rather prefer my water from the Britta filter in my fridge that is at room temperature. My mom loved the wine and got butthurt when I said it didn’t pair well. Had to get that taste out of my mouth with some water six hours fresh out of the Britta and more pasta. Store clerk said my mom’s boyfriend had a good taste of wine when he picked it out, I’m sure he does, but… kinda got the ick, ouch. I was going to say that this wine was like dog water but I think I’d actually prefer to drink dog water. The wine was a full red wine and the meat sauce for the pasta we had used white turkey meat so the wine-food pairing was not right, and this likely explains why I was so appalled by it.

Schloss Bierbrich WIne Review from 2/3/2023

1. 1. Schloss Bierbrich, Dry sparkling white wine, Mosel, Germany, no age (from trader joe’s) Cost - $4.99

   1. https://www.vivino.com/US/en/de-schloss-biebrich-trocken-germany/w/8851179

   2. Tried this knockoff champagne from Germany and it was better than the red I had in the first blog post. It was called Schloss Bierbrich and uhh hmm I didn’t like it, but it was far more tolerable than the red. The legs on this sparkling wine were crazy, HA! This “champagne” was a little more dry. Took a sip and had to shake the ick out of my body. The wine was served cold and I did not eat anything with it. As a matter of fact I was in the middle of drinking my creatine in coconut water that was delectable, and my mom was making herself a mimosa, so I was like, yo ma… lemme get some of that for my class. My drink did not have OJ so it was not a mimosa, it was straight up sparkling wine.