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Italia Roscato

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The Roscato is a sweet red, non-vintage, and mentioned on the back of the bottle that it was smooth, with notes of cherry. I bought it for around 12 dollars and according to the official site, it is sweet and fruity and full of life. Dolce Wines - Roscato Wine My impression of the wine is that when I had opened the bottle, it smelled like honey, and very citrus-like. When I tasted it, it was nothing but honey and lemon just filling everywhere. The sparkling made the sweetness of the wine even more intense and overpowering. Overall, it was alright, it is just a party drink.

Pillars of Hercules

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  The Pillars of Hercules 2020 Red Blend is a very interesting red wine blend. The bottle does not give a particular combination of what red wines that they put but, it is a vintage wine, stating that it was made in 2020. This was grown, produced, and bottled by JL Giguiere, Zamora, California. I remember buying it for around 16 or 17 dollars, and according to the label, the wine has a giant juiciness and a chewy dense texture. Smelling the wine was actually really great with this wine. I remember that it smelled spicy like some kind of black pepper and had a raspberry like smell as well to compliment it. Unfortunately, when I tasted the wine itself, my immediate impression was that it tasted pretty weird to me. It had the balance between dry and sweet when I tried it and was not a big fan of. It tasted like cinnamon and pepper as well as tasting like raspberries. Overall, not really want to drink again.

Wine Dinner

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  My Wine Dinner On Saturday night, my friends and I had an impromptu wine dinner together where everyone made a dish or a dessert for dinner. We had pasta, curry with rice, and key lime pie to go with our selection of the Ménage a Trois wine (a white blend), Oliver red blend wine, and a Landshut Riesling. The first dish above, was the pasta and the Ménage a Trois white blend wine that was a mixture of chenin blanc, moscato, and chardonnay. The pasta itself was amazing, but however I found the wine that I paired with it lacking. The wine itself smelled a bit like sulfur, but it also had hints of some flowery and citrus to go with it. When I actually tried it with the pasta, I was disappointed that the wine's sweetness just more or less tasted like a watered down moscato. Never before have I been so disappointed in a wine, all of that just to be met with something that I could have easily bought and just drank on my own without needing food to compliment it. The curry and the red wi