As a first write up I started with a bottle of wine a customer had given me. She works for Foster Wine Group and wanted to give me a “good bottle of wine,” and in this she succeeded. The Coonawarra was one of my first good bottles of Australian wine. And I wanted us to do it by the book. Well, since I have yet to take a class, or really read a book about wine drinking I first smelled the cork. I usually can tell a lot about the wine from the cork. And in this case it smelled really good. In drinking I found it a bit too tangy/sour. It tasted good but it had a bite. I will say it paired very good with a couple slices of Marie Calender cherry pie though. And the aftertaste was good… a nice tart grape taste. I thought hard about this and I didn’t taste any chocolate or “smooth” flavors in it… but it was very fruity.

Karen: Wasn’t very strong, was kind of bland. It smelled really good, it went down easy… was very good. It tasted like good wine.

Produced by: Mildara Wines

Place: Coonawarra, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.worldwidewines.com