Wine Tasting - Tempranillo Sangria

Name: Tempranillo Sangria 
Variety: Varietal
Region: N/A
Country: Spain
Year: N/A
Price: $17, on sale for $8.95
Winery review: 100% Tempranillo. Natural fruit flavors and succulent red wine all fused together in one bottle. This doesn’t require a punch bowl and big ladle, you can chill your bottle in a cooler and head out to the beach or a hike and enjoy a cup of the best sangria anywhere you choose to be.

My review: very fruity and sweet, smooth finish. Citrus taste, oranges, lemons, can taste grapes as well. A little too citrusy for my liking

Wine Tasting - Corvina Veneto

Name: Corvina Veneto
Variety: Varietal table wine
Region: Valpolicella
Country: Italy
Year: 2014
Price: $16, on sale for $7.95
Winery review: To create the classic Valpolicella cuvee, the noble Corvina is typically blended with other varietals such as Molinara and Rondinella. Monte Tondo’s Veneto IGT is the extraordinarily rare 100% Corvina wine. This Corvina is redolent of pie cherries, orange peel, potpourri, mint, and star anise. Brisk on the attack yet round and satisfying, it conveys suggestions of violets, white pepper, and ruby red grapefruit notes wrapped around a bright, vibrant core of sour cherry fruit. Bitter herbs and fine tannins join the wine’s chewy core of red fruits to make this an exceptionally versatile and table-ready red wine.
My review: tastes very bland to me, possibly earthy but has a dry taste and finish. Leaves my mouth feeling dry, kind of taste like black olives at the end 

Wine Tasting - Barbera d' Alba

Name: Barbera d’Alba 
Variety: Varietal
Region: Piedmont
Country: Italy
Year: 2012
Price: $20, on sale for $6.95
Winery review: Its aroma is wide and complex: spicy, with green pepper notes, cinnamon and vanilla, pleasant and characteristic; at the same time it is also fruity, with cherry, blackberry, strawberry and red fruits jam in general notes. In mouth it reveals its full-bodied taste, with the right amount of acidity, and with a persistent and pleasant finish.

My review: smooth but has a harsh finish/ aftertaste. Tastes earthy, hint of cork, oak finish. Kind of tastes like the wine I used to have at church