Variety of the grapes: Not listed
Origin: Fairlawn, VA. The New River Vineyard and Winery
Vintage: 2023
Price: $19.50
Winery Review of the wine: Our grape wine with natural flavor is sweet, rich, and bursting with peach flavor. Our wine is handcrafted in small batches and stainless steel aged. The perfect porch sipping wine.
Color: Linden Blossom (according to my color chart)
5% Residual Sugar
12% ABV
Aroma: Sweet aroma of honey, fruit forward of white cranberry,
"grapey," candied, peaches, strawberries. The primary aroma is the
"grapey" smell that can be compared to candied strawberries or
white cranberries. The secondary smell is the peachy, honey
smell.
Grape Varietal Characteristics: N/A, though if I had to guess
what grape variety it is made of, I would guess concord.
Taste: Extremely sweet and smooth, no taste of alcohol.
Tastes just like Welch's grape juice, if they made one that was peach.
The peach comes secondary, the "grapey" or candied strawberry,
jammy, flavor comes first. Very fruity flavors and a light body.
Short finish.
My review: I enjoyed this wine, and find it to be a refreshing, seamless, sweet wine. I like the added component of peach, it adds another layer in addition to the primary "grapey" flavor. I find it very easy to drink, and tastes like summer in a bottle. I think it would pair perfectly with some fresh fruit, and sunshine. I find that the peach flavored wines that I have tried at a couple of wineries tend to be the sweetest, and taste more like a dessert peach. I have tried a similar peach wine at Nashoba Valley Winery in MA and its called "After dinner peach," and I do find it slightly more syrupy and heavier than this sneaky peach one feels. I do like the name "Sneaky peach" because I think that peach isn't the primary flavor, and it does sneak up on you a bit.
No comments:
Post a Comment