THEAmateurSommelier

I'm going to need to have a talk with a certain Robert P (whoever you are) about this wine because this just WAS NOT IT! Barely any noticeable flavour or characteristics to this wine; I'm really hoping I just happened to pick up a bad bottle somehow because it was truly a letdown with a cherry of extreme acid reflux on top (OW!). Needless to say, I plan on diluting this bottle for some enjoyment and will probably use Welch's grape juice just to get some flavour in there! Also apparently supposed to be paired with pigeon? Anyone want to leave a comment or two how pigeon tastes? I'm disturbed yet curious! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel for more wine tastings...that hopefully taste a heck of a lot better!!!

I was thinking of diluting this wine to help with my acid reflux but after tasting the wine, there is no way I could have diluted that wine! Reminded me a lot of an Apothic Inferno with the lovely balance of acid and tannin, vanilla bean/extract smell and taste and dark fruit characteristics. So I drank it straight...only was able to drink half the bottle though (I think the water mixed with baking soda had something to do with that), but I would highly recommend this wine! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

What I thought was a rose wine tasted a lot more like a sauvignon blanc; still delicious and some leftover will be used for a different project I have in mind. Still no Internet at the house, so here I am at the library having a fun old time getting the content out to everyone! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Not one of my better experimental ideas of attempting to burn off the alcohol from the wine, but a necessary experiment to be done to determine such future viability! May have to make a lot of changes if I try it again in the future. Or just dilute my wines with water or grape juice like normal people! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

I went into this redemption wine tasting thinking it was just gonna be another generic Apothic wine and WOW I was wrong! It tastes almost like a port wine being fortified and aged in whiskey barrels and has those distinguishing characteristics of toasted barrel, maybe some spice, definitely caramel, way too delicious, probably going to drink the whole thing tonight and regret it tomorrow at work, make sure to leave a like and follow the channel, and thank you for watching!

I need to get rid of all the wines that have been compromised at this point; this is becoming ridiculous! They're all more than likely terrible, they more than likely can't be saved by blending, and they're taking up space on my wine rack at this point that could go to other wines when and if I got time to buy some! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Doing something different on the channel; I was in the mood to pop open this bottle of ale (quite literally, take extreme caution opening these bottles!). Turns out I probably should have put it standing up in the wine fridge as I feel like it needs to be cooler for enjoyment, not to mention it's more bitter than I anticipated and more like a dark beer to me than a lighter ale/lager. Make sure to like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Can't remember if I've done this wine previously or not, so I will be doing it once again and hope you all enjoy, leave a like, and follow the channel. Also anyone know who would put a green bell pepper into a pepper shaker and straight eat it? Asking for a friend...

Suggested by JMMathis, I will be trying the wine that has been requested and hopefully it won't be any worse than the disaster last night from the Rusty Tractor Cynthiana! And wow, this wine did not disappoint! Very complex wine that has all the characteristics working in perfect sync! Full bodied, well balanced, fantastic wine; would strongly recommend! Make sure to leave a like and follow if you enjoyed!

I've had this wine before, I have not had pleasurable experiences in the past tasting this wine, why am I tasting this wine again? My sister needs to pick me out some seriously better wine! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

First Slovenian wine I've tried; I don't remember tasting the way it does when I was at Vin Santo over the summer! It smells like apple, cantaloupe, and gravel mineral but upon tasting, that candied apple taste with extra sugar quickly turns into an intensely sour green apple that will pucker up your mouth in no time! Add on the delayed burn and the need for this wine to be refrigerated for best taste and I'm realizing I can't catch a break at all this week! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

I am once again at the wine tasting on the same weekend (despite this being uploaded on a different weekend) due to last night's (the previous weekend's) wine disasters! I will be trying one of the wines underneath my desk to see if the heat generated in my room over the summer has affected the quality of the wines in here! Based on now two wines, there does appear to be a decrease in quality in the wines stored in my room and I will now have to relocate these remaining wines in my room when I get more room on the wine rack in the other room (at some point who even knows when). If y'all enjoyed my little "science experiment", make sure to leave a like and follow the channel!

So the last wine became quickly unblendable and awful, so I have resorted to opening wine NUMBER THREE tonight! AND the cork broke apart upon opening! Pretty sure the rest of the bottles stored with it will have cork issues upon opening as well! Pretty sure it's too hot in my room to store wine! FANTASTIC! Lots of surgery and needing a new wine bottle opener later, I have managed to salvage most of the wine into the decanter along with several specks of cork in the wine and now it tastes like a ground black pepper shaker! At this rate, I'm just going to drink it because I'm tired of this lunacy, so make sure to like and follow if you enjoyed as well!

Round 2 of trying to find a good wine to go with my steak was...not all that great...basically at all...too much of the smell of leather on the nose combined with an okay amount of tannin but sharp sweetness at the end of the palette along with a hefty burn going down the throat make this wine more of a blend/Sangria wine as opposed to holding it up on its own. Does it need to age longer? Probably. Did I aerate the wine enough? Definitely not! Do I wish to try again? Only in extreme circumstances! Make sure to hit that like button and follow if you enjoyed!

Has anyone ever tasted pomegranate with gasoline in liquid form? Yeah, that was basically what this wine was! I wouldn't recommend it even if it was chilled as the bottle insists! Needless to say, it's getting pitched, I'm getting another wine, there will be another video tomorrow, chaos reigns supreme, make sure to hit that like button and follow the channel!

An interesting Spanish wine as I thought it was going to taste like an Apothic Red upon smelling and upon tasting got more spice and black currant as well as tannin compared to the balance of acid and tannin with an Apothic Red. Interesting wine, complex wine, very excited to consume the rest of the bottle, make sure to leave a like and follow if you enjoyed!

As I'm still recovering from last week's surgery, I decided to go with a non alcoholic wine for this week (last week's tasting I had done prior to surgery so no one panic). All honesty and I don't know if it's because this wine was affected by the wine fridge catastrophe six months ago or it's been sitting for six months, but it tastes like carbonated cranberry and lingonberry juice...and it's not all that terrible either surprisingly...just make sure to keep cool/refrigerated as it's not great at room temperature...make sure to hit that thumbs up button and follow...

This wine was suggested to me by a commentator on the YouTube channel of the same name and I was able to find the bottle on my last trip to the liquor store and am just now getting to that wine due to being on antibiotics for the last week. I found it more light bodied until I swallowed and noticed more full bodied characteristics of dark fruits, cocoa bean, and possible tobacco. That burn going down the throat felt intense, though my previous history of acid reflux may have something to do with that. If you enjoyed, make sure to leave a like and follow and comment any wine suggestions you may have today!

I apparently haven't had any Rose wine in five months...no idea how on Earth I was able to pull that off, but I plan on fixing that tonight. A while back, a viewer requested I review some Portuguese wines and I've had this wine in my wine fridge for some time now and I believe now is the time to break it out again and give it a fair review. Either because I have forgotten what rose wines taste like or I haven't aired this wine out enough as I create this piece of content, it smells like a Chardonnay wine with aromas of oak, butter, melon, and pear, yet upon tasting has notes of sour cherry, highly acidic, low tannin, and no burn down the throat. Kind of odd; not sure how I feel about that, but I don't necessarily hate it either. If you enjoyed the content, make sure to leave a like and follow and if you have any suggestions for a wine I should taste in the future, let me know in the comments below!

Normally I do wine tastings on this channel, but I finally found my stein after losing it in my closet for two years and shall break it out in time for Oktoberfest. Except not drink an Oktoberfest beer because I am more curious about this Bitburger Pilsner I found at the liquor store yesterday. Make sure to leave a like and follow if you enjoyed!

What my expectations for this wine were versus how it actually turned out were complete polar opposites; while I thought the Cabernet Franc was going to be more of a Bordeaux style red, this bottle turned out to be some sick imitation joke of a rose that happened to have some characteristics of a Cabernet Franc! It was not one of the better wines I've had, and I ended up blending this wine with a bottle of red wine that had been previously compromised due to an issue with my wine refrigerator. Turns out the blending of the two wines made something more tolerable than either on their own! This tasting will merely be the pure Cabernet Franc, so make sure to leave a like and follow if you enjoyed!

The first wine from the Vin Santo Wine Bar in Chester, UK that I will be tasting on the channel! I forgot how dry this wine was; my goodness how much DID I drink at that wine bar to not remember that? Still a fabulous wine! Make sure to leave a like and follow!

I found an article stemming from a survey done in 2021 that up to 25% of Americans lie to their doctor about the amount of alcohol they drink and would ignore medical advice to cut back on their drinking! I find empathy with such people as I have struggled in the past with my drinking and it took a major life change in order for me to reflect and realize I had a problem and have taken steps to cut back on the amount of alcohol I drink (can still do better I can assure you all!). If you know someone who has a problem drinking alcohol, I encourage you to encourage them to seek help, though understand it is ultimately up to them to be motivated enough to seek help on their own. Also make sure to leave a like and follow (yes it says subscribe; I know. I have attempted a standard OBS scene in order to try to get this video out there and it's a different format of video from what I am used to. Let me know in the comments if it looks good, what I can do better, any settings suggestions that I can try to program, etc.).

I was allowed to try one of my sister's wines; THAT WAS A MISTAKE! I wanted a second glass...and was even tempted to have a third...but I controlled myself. An excellent wine; highly recommend! Make sure to leave a like and follow!

I was crazy enough to do another wine tasting for my birthday last month and to go with my birthday cake I chose a port wine. Not a sweet port wine this one; the bourbon is a lot more noticeable than the wine though still balanced enough to be a delightful glass (the other bottle of wine may have had something to do with that though). Make sure to leave a like and follow!