Episode 46: Feeling Pretty: Sweet Wines and Surprises

Episode 46: Feeling Pretty: Sweet Wines and Surprises

This episode features a tasting of four wines on the sweeter side that not only surprised us but would be delightful choices for the sweet wine lover or the hypersensitive vinotype (see www.myvinotype.com or revisit Episode 44 for empowerment). Maybe we had a little too much fun with this episode, so we hope you’ll enjoy it and share it with your friends who like the sweet stuff!

Steph:  “Welcome Wine-Two-Five listeners! Thank you so much for joining us for Episode 46! I’m Steph, and I’m up in sunny Fort Collins, and Val is down in Colorado Springs today.”

Val:  “Yeah – snowy Colorado Springs! The sun is just coming out and Steph and I have a special sweet wine tribute today in honor of our recent guest Tim Hanni. He said on our show – episode 44 – that we should tell our sweet wine drinking friends ‘Hey, I never knew you had more taste buds than me!’ We’re drinking some leftovers from our recent tasting of wines that our Sweet and Hypersensitive vinotypes could really be down with.

“Let’s revisit this tasting – which we like to call … the “Skittles” tasting.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discussion:  Our favorite purveyors selected a few wines for us to taste. #W25Challenge, baby! And here are those wines!

Wine #1

2011 Frisk prickly Grenache – Lodi, CA ($12.00 – $14.00)

 

Wine #2

2014 Whitewater Hill Sweetheart Red Sweet Red Table Wine – Grand Valley, CO ($13.00), 11.2% abv.

 

Wine #3

Georg Albrecht Schneider Riesling ($19.49) Spatlese from Nierstein, Rheinhessen, Germany.

 

Wine #4

NV Malvira Birbet – Roero, Italy ($29.99) , 5% abv. We bought it at Vom Foss

 

Steph:  “That was a lot of fun  – a rainbow of flavors and colors!  Justin and I enjoyed Frisk the “prickly Grenache” with Chinese food on Sunday.”

Factoid:

Val: “Hey Steph, what’s your out-of-the-box factoid this week?”

Steph:  “Sake vocabulary that hit me in the face when I was nibbling at Ototo in Denver: prefecture= district in Japan. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures, or districts. If you’d like to read a little more about sake, there’s 2 great posts on SWE’s blog written by Mr Mark Rashap, CWE and Marketing Coordinator for the Society of Wine Educators!”

1. http://winewitandwisdomswe.com/2016/01/19/tasting-sake-from-a-champagne-perspective/
2. http://winewitandwisdomswe.com/2016/02/13/sakea-practical-guide/”

Val: “Also, remember Master Sommelier Sally Mohr gave us a little Sake lesson back in episode 27.”

Shoutouts:

Steph: “Val is a wine rockstar and killed-it on Saturday’s SWEbinar called “Little Fish in a Big Pond”. You are an outstanding speaker-presenter! Nice work on the slides and loved when you busted a rhyme.”

Val: “Dustin gave us a very animated and extremely informed tour of Vom Foss in Fort Collins where you can sample liqueurs, whiskies, brandies, wines, olive oils, vinegars and spices. Everything for the gourmand in one shop. Thank you, Dustin – it’s a treat to be guided by someone who truly loves what he does – and knows his product line inside out. I was particularly stoked to find a bottle of Moroccan wine!”

#W25Challenge

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THANK YOU EVERYONE for the facebook shares, the interaction on twitter, the pictures and the fun!  Join us next week for our interview with Master Sommelier David Glancy of the San Francisco Wine School. He’s got something super fun to share with us!