Variety of the grapes: Not listed
Origin: Fairlawn, VA: New River Vineyards and Winery
Price: $21.50
Vintage: 2024
Winery review of the wine: Not your Mamma's sweet tea. This black tea wine is raspberry infused. Your porch sipping wine.
Aroma: faint and fruity, primary aroma of raspberry, secondary aroma herbal and earthy notes of black tea.
Grape varietal characteristics: N/A, as the variety of grapes used to make the wine is not listed on the wine bottle or pamphlet from the winery.
Taste: On the front, it tastes very fruity, strong flavors of raspberry, but once you swallow, the finish has strong herbal notes of the black tea. It's mid sweetness, low acidity, mid-tannins, light taste of alcohol, low-medium bodied, with a few second finish. It is well balanced and has a nice flavor that is less simplistic with the herbal tea notes.
My review: I really enjoyed this wine and it was the first one I tasted out of my flight. It stands out as the color is more of a burnt-orange, not a white, pink, nor red appearance. It smells very pleasant and mild, and filled my mouth with flavorful notes of raspberry, with a secondary flavor of the black tea that I tasted more so when I let it sit in my mouth and then swallowed it. I love raspberry iced tea, and any fruit iced teas, so I really enjoyed this. It tasted like a spiked iced tea, and I think that the wineries description of it being a porch sipping wine is perfect. A nice cold glass of this with a good book, sitting outside in the sun sounds like a perfect summer evening.
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