Sea Smoke Wine

This review is a first for us both. This is our first sweet wine, and our first Greek wine. Given the softness of this wine a full serving is relatively low. Do not, I repeat, do not drink a wine full servings of this kind. You really regret getting sick and drunk with dessert wines. When you think of Greece as you might think of Retsina wine, wine tasting resin, which still represent a large section of Greek wine market. You will not find these wines reviewed here, and not because of price.

Samos is a small mountainous island located in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey. Its inhabitants have been making wine for over three thousand years. The muscadine grape is a newcomer, probably introduced in the sixteenth century. These grapes have been grown on the slopes of Mount Ampelos at a height of up to half a mile (one kilometer) by a local cooperative founded in 1930. The wine reviewed below is their commodity, their high end is the Samos Anthemis. I usually limit my quotes to marketing materials, but exceptionally, to quote one of my favorite wine commentators, Tom Stevenson, "One of the great sweet wines in the world ... are all superb, perfectly balanced, rich and melodious wine ... "If you agree with Tom, you are a real bargain.

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Samos Vin Doux Wine Review 2007 15% alcohol about $ 9 (half bottle)

Let's start with the marketing materials. Tasting Note: 100% Muscat, this fortified wine is grown in conditions of semi-mountainous island of Samos. The nose shows lovely aromas of honey and Earl Grey tea and oranges. Semi-sweet, but balanced by good acidity, a seam, the wine is soft-textured fine honey, peach, pear, almond paste, straw, almond and floral notes. Lively and clean with excellent length, this would make a nice treat after dinner. (VINTAGES panel, July 2008) And now for my review.

I started drinking the wine itself. It was liquid honey and pleasantly acidic. So far, so good. As a dessert wine, I rarely paired with meals. The tastings were all conducted on separate occasions. I first tried almond meringue cookies. The wine had a taste of tea and was somewhat drugs. On the positive side I was tired and it was really a fine choice to me. I tasted the lemon, but the wine does not provide the taste of almond.

I tried this wine a cream bar with vanilla ice-covered high-quality dark chocolate. The taste of tea was predominant, I'm not even a fan of tea in my cup, much less in my glass of wine. With sweet honeydew Samos is a little syrupy and medicines.

My supermarket sells a tart lemony often in French with a very creamy crust is best eaten the freezer. And what has this tart taste wine extract, honeysuckle.

Ben and Jerry's came out with a new flavor, at least in our neighborhood. If I Had A 1,000,000 which was mainly flavors chocolate and vanilla and frankly disappointing. But I am not examining the ice cream, I am examining dessert wine. I had a bit of honey and tea, but the combination was far from a success.

Then I tried small pastries called rogelach containing dried fruit and coconut. The new citrus scent was and is pleasant, the flavors were old and medicinal tea and were not.

To change I tried this dessert wine with a poppy seed bagel covered soft, creamy cheese and 5% smoked Atlantic salmon. The wine tasted most of honey. I believe that the bagel is immersed in water containing a little sugar, I know that the salmon is cured in brown sugar. Unlike many cream cheese, creamy cheese that does not taste the least bit sweet. Anyway, whatever the influence of the wine tasted of honey and later, the taste of tea is back.

The last meal was a c. Grilled