The Three Tomatoes Review Middle Sister Wines
by PTA Mom
We gathered up a few of our best gal pals who like wine. Of our ten tasters, 2 were actually middle sisters, but we all got a kick out of the fun labels and descriptions with quirky names like Drama Queen (Pinot Grigio), Smarty Pants (Chardonnay), Wicked White (Blend), Forever Cool (Merlot), Mischief Maker (Cabernet Sauvignon) and Rebel Red (Blend). Although the wines aren’t available in NY yet (we’re working on changing that), all the wines retail for around $12 a bottle.
Give each glass a swirl- there are these things called “legs” in the wine world where we see how each wine drips back down the side of the glass. The color should get a little deeper from #1-#3 and the wine should be a bit thicker and have more legs (thicker drips).
Stick your nose in the glass and give it a sniff. Not a little bit of nose, but your entire nose. What do you smell? Then take a sip- purse your lips slightly and inhale air as you sip. You’ll make a little gurgling sound, but that’s OK. That means you’re getting air to mix in with the wine and that will bring out the flavors.
There are 4 basic components that make up taste: sweetness, bitterness, sourness and saltiness. Since there’s no salt in wine, so we can rule that out, so we’re really talking about three measures when it comes to taste.
The Tasting Results
So know that you know all the rules- throw them out, have fun and use your own words to describe the wines. With tasting notes that include: Good, Love it!, Fruity, and Best, it’s not hard to recognize that we really know what we’re talking about when it comes to wine. We loved all of the Middle Sister wines.
Of the three whites, Wicked White was favored by most, but followed closely by Smarty pants (not to say Drama Queen wasn’t good- it was “light and refreshing”, our tasters just preferred the other two). Wicked White is comprised of 21% Gewürztraminer, which adds a flavor that is very different from a Pinto Grigio or Chardonnay. “Shazam!” and a great “food wine” were used to describe it. In fact, we had some fresh figs that we had picked off the tree in my backyard and then stuffed with crumbled gorgonzola and topped with a piece of fresh mint. What a delicious combination! The chardonnay is not aged in oak, which was a huge plus for our tasters, most of whom shy away from the big white for that very reason. One taster said it was her “favorite surprise.”
We loved the reds. Mischief Maker, with no oak, is a “very nice Cab!”, “full-bodied and smooth” and went nicely with the risotto balls with marinara sauce and sage sausage spread on toast points. But the favorite of all the testers was Rebel Red.
Rebel Red is made up of 38% Zinfandel (not the pink, sweet kind my favorite Aunt drinks) which gives it its robust character. “My favorite” and “Love this!” were a few of the comments we received which makes us want to go out and grab a case of it if only it was available in New York. Help fill up our wine glass and bring Middle Sister to NY by signing their online petition here.
And don’t forget to invite me to your next wine tasting. I’ll toast your friends with phrases like “Here’s to you and here’s to me, the best of friends we’ll ever be, and if by chance we don’t agree, screw you, here’s to me!”
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First, how to conduct a wine tasting
Here’s how we did our tasting. We put out three wine glasses for each person and placed them on top of a white piece of paper. On the paper write the numbers 1,2, and 3 under each glass. This is the order you will try the wine-first, the three whites from lightest to heaviest in body and flavor (Pinot Grigio, Chard, then the blend).
Once you are done tasting the whites, do the same thing with the reds. You should be able to see a difference in color among all three.
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