2014 Viñas Chilenas Rosario Estate Reserva Rosé Wine
12.5% ABV
$4.49 at Trader Joe's
Tasting Notes
Theme: "Let's get this tasting over with so we can drink and watch Friends"
Sight
Beautiful pink with the slightest tinge of salmon orange, it resembles a very low concentration blood orange juice. Lots of rim variation.
Nose
Immediately after opening the bottle the whole room smelled fruity and floral, like somebody had spilled a bottle of perfume, or like being in a meadow of wildflowers.
Very strong aromatics: sweet lemon-perfectly ripe, like a lemon tree at the height of the season. Strawberry candy, like those little ones that come wrapped in foil in grandma's purse. Almost like artificial strawberry, intensely sweet. After a minute grapefruit starts to shine through, offering some complexity.
Palate
Tastes like fresh citrus with sweet notes of honey and a short strawberry draw. It's not as crisp as it smells, it's a little round and syrupy at first, but the acid develops in your mouth and feels almost a little effervescent on the back of the tongue. The wine is a bit unbalanced, the acidity is much more prominent than the alcohol, which is almost undetectable despite the wine being over 12%.
Overall we were pleasantly surprised with the quality of the wine compared to the price. The wine definitely provides a good bang-for-your-buck (really, you're pretty much getting 3% alcohol per dollar) and is at least worth a try, even if you don't generally like rosés. It's a little sweet and completely approachable, a good summer wine if you aren't feeling like drinking something super crisp. Poking around online it appears that this is primarily a rosé of cabernet.
7.5/10
The wine gets a score bump for the price, but it was still unbalanced and didn't blow our socks off. It's a solid everyday drinker, and one that we wouldn't be ashamed to take to a casual occasion.
Cheers,
A&P
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