Luca

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Name: Da Luca
Variety: Pinot Grigio
Region:Veneto

Country:Italy 
Year: 2010
Price: 8.75

Shop/wine critic/winery review: 

Elegant, dry, fruity Da Luca Pinot Grigio from Triveneto in Italy. This is crisp and fresh, made from 100% Pinot Grigio grapes from the north-eastern part of Italy, showing beautiful notes of apple and a little lemon and lime citrus fruit. Enjoy on its own or sip alongside a plate of shellfish.

My Review: Very clear with a hint of gold color. Very grapey smell. Very balanced! It kind of gets your taste buds going at first with a burst of grape flavor for the mid pallet. Its a really good wine, not really any interesting or complex flavors but very clean and smooth. I had a good time tasting this wine. It was not with food.

Marques de Moral Crianza

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Name: Marques de Moral Crianza 
Variety: Tempranillo
Region:Valdepenas  
Country: Spain
Year: 2007
Price: 7.95

Shop/wine critic/winery review: 87 points -- Stephen Tanzer

Medium Red. Aromas of redcurrant and cherry, plus a hint of dried rose. Fleshy and smooth, with moderate depth to its slightly bitter fruit flavors. Finishes with decent readth adn grip, with the redcurrant element joined by a hint of white paper.

My Review: When I smelled the wine I caught flower smells. I thought it smelled really good. Had a nice red color and had a hint of pepper. Once tasted the pepper smell really came through and it came to be really good. I really liked this wine. The balance of flower and pepper really did work out and it was the best wine tasted at the vintage cellar.

Poggio Vignoso

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Name: Poggio Vignoso
Variety: Chianti
Region:Tuscany
Country:Italy
Year: 2009
Price: 9.99

hop/wine critic/winery review:
Abundant, easily expressible cherry and strawberry fruit elide attempts at complexification. This is charming, free wheeling wine: clean, pure, simple and delicious. It also happens to be rockin’ tasty with pretty sweet fruit, leather and medium body. Perfectly suited for high acid pastas, pizza and anything with tomatos. In many wine lover’s search for greatness, they can miss the inimitable basic purity of a wine like this Chianti.
13% ABV. 85% Sangiovese, 10% Canaiolo, 5% Malvasia.
Very Good+ and Highly Recommended Value

My Review: This has a great ruby red color color and has an awesome cherry and floral smell. The taste was really great. It is one of the best red wines that i have tried. It is the first wine that i had tried that I could really taste the mid pallet. I did not, however, taste the strawberry flavors.. It does seem very balanced and I had a good time drinking this wine. I did not try it with food.

Coldstream Hills

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Name: Coldstream Hills
Variety: Sauvignon Blanc
Region:Yarra Valley
Country:Australia
Year: 2009
Price: 7.95

Shop/wine critic/winery review: Predominantly fermented at cool temperatures in a stainless steel tanks. The nose shows frangrant goosberry characters with underlying passionfruit and lychee aromas. The palate is a is a fine and elegant style with zesty lemon acidity and lengt. Varietal characters of passhonfruit pulp and gooseerry dominate with hints of lemon peel in the background.
My Review: It was first a nice light gold gold color. The smell was very smooth and silky. The silkiness in the taste I seemed to think was honey. The gooseberry and passionfruit were more underlying then actually at the forfront. This was very well balanced and it was a pretty good wine. The silkiness was cool to taste but it was almost a little bland, the honey taste was what i taste most and i thought it was going to be a better overall wine.