Wine: Confectioner's Sweet Symphony & Pink Moscato

The second part of the fresh & easy vino continues!

[I actually added a wine to this review, confectioner's pink wine.]

Both were priced at 8.99 at Fresh & Easy.

Confectioner's pink moscato is sweet and light. It's actually a good "summer punch" (making a cocktail out of sprite and confectioner's pink moscato)

It was sweet, and light with subtle rosey notes.

Sweet symphony was darker in contrast. This wine screams autumn, in it's rich burgundy color and flavor or rum soaked raisins (heavy dried fruit reconstituted in syrup flavor). It was smooth but tart rather than sweet. Probably the most different sweet red wine I have tasted.

The pink moscato was good, but the sweet red was better. I give the pink moscato a 3 out of 5, and the sweet red a 4 out of 5 (mostly because it was so different from anything I have had, in a pleasant way). The red is definitely a fall wine and something I would enjoy (or put in the same rainy/snowy/cold-day-by-the fire category) with Quady's Vya sweet vermouth or Nimble Hill's Port.

Salute!

Grocery Store Vino Fresh & Easy

So a friend of mine stayed with me for thanksgiving weeked. She told be she views my blog but is sad I don't update. I told her the ideas of topics I wanted to cover, describe, share, but I just never do them.


She encouraged me [first and foremost, to drink more wine!], to actually carry out these ideas.

So we went to Fresh and Easy and picked out some wines in the following price points:

3.99 Unwined Pinot Noir
4.99 First Fleet Shiraz
6.99 Matuco Cab Sauv
8.99 Confectioner's Sweet Symphony - sweet red

The idea here is to find cheap grocery store wines and compare them to other grocery store deals [and steals!], to see what makes the cut, and what just..., doesn't.

Keep reading for the reviews ;-)