Wine Dinner

Up first was bruschetta paired with extra dry Montelliana Prosecco. This wine was a lighter bodied dry wine with floral aromas. There is a faint taste of fruit, but overall this wine is not very sweet. Personally this was my least favorite wine I had throughout the meal, and I would have preferred something sweeter.

When paired with a bruschetta, the wine cuts some of the sweet flavors of the bruschetta, making the pairing not ideal. While both have mild flavors, the sweetness of the tomatoes in the bruschetta was canceled out by the extra dry wine, a sweeter sparkling wine would have completed the food better. Due to the dryness of the wine the food overpowered the wine leaving the subtle fruity flavors the wine almost undetectable after taking a bite with bruschetta. A more acid or sweet wine would have stood a firmer ground when up against the bruschetta.

Despite the food overpowering the wine and the wine being too dry for the food, the food one its own was great, while the wine was not great.The bruschetta was bursting with sweet, acidic, and herbal flavors, where the wine a light body and lacking flavors. In the future a champagne that matched the acidic and fruity flavors of the tomatoes would have been ideal. While this match up was the worst in out meal, it wasn't absolutely terrible!

: $10

Name: Montelliana Prosecco 

Variety: Prosecco  

Region: Treviso in Veneto

Country: Italy  

Year: Non-vintage 

Tasting- Washington Hills’ 2020 Dry Riesling

 

Name: Washington Hills’ 2020 Dry Riesling 

Variety: Riesling 

Region: Washington Hills, Washington State 

Country: US 

Year: 2020

Price: $8

My friend purchased this wine at Kroger and was excited to try a dry riesling. According to  Winemag.com this wine contains lime, lemon, herb and green flower flavors. While I definitely tasted the lime and lemons with a touch of herbs I didn’t quite get the green flowers, maybe because that isn't a flavor I am used to. Winemag.com also stated that this wine is a tad dry with a fuller feel and plentiful acidity tying it all together. 

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I personally enjoyed this wine. This wine was very aromatic with citrus and honey scents. Upon tasting the green apple, lime and herb flavors were balanced with the dryness of the wine, so it was not too overpowering.  According to Wine Folly page 158 rieslings also contain jasmine and petroleum flavors, which I did not taste in this wine. I personally enjoyed the acidity in the wine, as it gave the wine a fuller body feel. I also really enjoyed the subtle sweet flavors of pineapple in the wine.

I did not try this wine with food.