Tasting - Pinett

We are here on Monday, January 31st, 2022, what does this mean you ask? It means another bachelor night in which I get to try another great wine and expand my growing pallet of wine. On the menu today, was a rose that I thought looked like it would taste good, bought from Kroger. 

Name: Pinette
Variety: Terre Sicilian Rosato
Country: Italy
Region: Sicily  
Vintage: 2020
Price: $6.59

I wanted to give this wine a taste before I read any reviews online because I wanted to make sure I distinguished my own feelings about the wine before getting influenced by reading others. My first impression of the wine based on the smell of wine was a very strong floral smell, almost overwhelming in fact (pg 46). The smell had hints of fruit but in my opinion, they were not pleasant and smelled more like perfume (pg 47). So I was honestly not excited to give it the taste test, but I was committed. The wine had an extremely strong acidic taste to it. So much so that I could not distinguish anything else in the wine. I even gave myself multiple tries to clear my taste buds and try again but the acidy of wine was just too much for me to handle, and I sadly had to put the wine down after only one glass. I did not try this wine with any food, but I cannot imagine any food that would taste good with it, maybe something that had a sweet or tangy taste. 

The review that I choose to include about this wine comes from Bob's Brew and Liquor review, maybe not the best choice but he goes into good detail. He mentions in his review that the wine he believes this wine to not be a complex wine. He then states how the wine is "awfully sweet" and how the acidy of wine is balanced decently well with the sweetness in order to make for a glass of good-tasting wine. The flavor hints that he gets from the wine are strawberry and tart rhubarb, which honestly I do not get at all. His review did give me some valuable insight however. It made me appericate how the acidy could be used in order to make for a fuller body wine that maybe I could not appericate just yet, as this is the beginning of my journey. However, I cannot lie to myself and say that I enjoyed this wine, maybe I will revisit this wine someday when I have a more acquired taste for wine but for now, not a fan.