Lets Get Tasting!!!!

This is a wine guide by a person with an uneducated palate and a tightly budgeted wallet.  There are plenty of apps and wine guides that will tell you which wine goes with what food, aroma, tasting notes, yadda, yadda, yah.  I have a common tongue that enjoys great food at a budget. 

Throughout this year I will try the wines of Whole Foods located at 3300 North Ashland Avenue Chicago, IL and give tasting and aroma notes for wines priced at $15.99 and under.  I will give notes on the flavor of the wine alone in addition to their flavor when paired with whatever I happen to be eating for dinner.  As a bonus I will give tasting notes on cheeses from Whole Foods along with how their flavor goes along with the wines of the week.    I will try a few wines per month so long as my liver can handle it!

The Inaugural Wine:  Santome Doc Proseco

For New Years  Day I felt it appropriate to try a Proseco.  I chose a proseco from Santome Doc Proseco Extra Dry 11% alcohol content.  It was a bargain at $12.99 per bottle.  Proseco is a sparkling wine.  

Aroma:

The Proseco had a faint aroma honeysuckle, golden raisins, and fresh garden green beans. 

Taste:

The wine was very bubbly and filled my mouth with gas.  The bottle said that it was extra dry, but the wine tasted half-dry and half-sweet in my opinion.  The flavor was similar to white grapefruit.   The wine went well with the chanterelle mushrooms sautéed with yellow onions that I had for lunch. 

*Bonus

I tried the Proseco with Capriole Juliana Cheese.  It was a raw goat milk smooth spreadable cheese, with Herbs de Provence in the rind priced at $22.99/lb.  I bought a 1/4 lb serving for $5.75, which is enough to last a single person for a week.

Flavor:
Tart, slightly salty cheese, slight aftertaste of ash (but not offensive), slight alfalfa sprout flavor.  The cheese went Great with the Proseco