Hige ripe fruit nose with spice, tobacco and mint. High acidity with a very peppery finish and biting tannins...

Elegant and sweet, our Strawberry Wine is a truly delicious fruit wine; ripe and fresh, this wine is perfect as a chilled sipping wine. Think of biting into a fresh juicey strawberry. This is great with rich dark chocolate...

Round and fleshy, like biting into a fresh peach, this white also has a vibrant structure. A hint of apricot and smoke flavors enter on the finish. Drink now through 2010. 10,000 cases made...

I was pleasantly satisfied by this Australian wine. The nose was VERY rich and full of fruit, and the taste reminded me of biting into berries and into a pear without being too sweet. The fruit is VERY up front (very new-world) ... + or - evals... Distinct varietal character: +, Integration: +, Expressiveness: +, Complexity: -, Connectedness...

Picked this up at the grocery store the other day and really enjoyed it. It was a little strong for my taste, similar to cranberry juice. The two are pretty tasty together though! It isn't my favorite, but I'd drink it again if offered.

Color: Lighter pinot-colored, burgundy to burnt sienna at edges. Nose: Another great nose, more red fruit finishing with cherry. Palate: Biting acidity at first, then some big tannins, and then some glycerol mouthfeel. Finishes dry with some dried cherry...

High acidity and high alcohol (14.5%) rather prevent from getting a lot of secondary flavors (some grassy hints?), so this is not a terribly interesting wine. The serving temperature is 16C; at anything lower than that, it is just biting; at anything greater than that, it is just too strong in evaporating alcohol content. I am not a dry white lover, though, so I may not be able to fully...

Wine Enthusiast gives this wine a solid 88. They describe as: Firesteed goes from strength to strength; this is their best Gris to date, enhanced perhaps by the unusually warm vintage. Its ripe fruit tastes like biting into a juicy pear picked right off the tree. Succulent, round and sweetly spicy, with noticeable residual sugar but very appealing semi-tropical flavors...

... and go until 5:00 am. The biting chill of the night changes the chemistry of the grape skin, making...