Violets are blue,
One of my friends gave me chocolate,
So I wrote a wine review!
One day A was shopping with a friend, M. They stopped at Shopper's Drugmart, and A spotted the most amazing chocolate box, which combined her love of glitter and wine. She mentioned to M that she couldn't wait until February 15th, when she would go back and buy this box of chocolate half price. M and A parted ways while A went to buy lip gloss. Serious Business. After checking out, M gifted A with this wonderful box of chocolates, meaning she could enjoy it RIGHT AWAY! Score! To show her appreciation, A decided to enjoy this gift with a wine from the Valentine's Day section of the LCBO, Torres San Valentin Garnacha. It is $12.90, but is only around for a limited time!
Torres is a big Spanish wine conglomerate. Their usual Garnacha, Torres Sangre De Toro Garnacha, Catalunya, is available year round. This Garnacha is different. Instead of a bull on the bottle, it has a cupid. There is also a very small difference in sugar content (the Sangre De Toro has 6 grams of sugar per litre, and the San Valentin has 2 grams of sugar per litre). This accounts for a VERY slight taste difference, but both are certainly not sweet sweet wines. For comparison, Cupcake's Red Velvet wine has 19 grams.
To enhance the flavour of this wine, I served it in a wine glass with a heart at the top of the stem. Because, you know, theme is very important.
This is all well and good, but what does it taste like?
A - This wine is surprisingly fruity for something that should be dry and is very pleasant to drink, without being too sweet. There is a touch of less sweet fruit flavours, like raspberries and cranberries, with none of the puckering tartness that could be associated with these flavours in a wine that tastes less good. This wine was definitely not a juicy wine, but was pleasantly flavourful and fruity, and I didn't get any of the puckering taste that can sometimes come with dry wines. I really enjoyed this wine on its own. Eating the milk chocolate in my chocolate box brought out the fruitiness of this wine and made it seem sweeter. (Editor's note: for those wondering, the box contains traditional milk chocolate hearts) When drank with an Italian meal of spaghetti and meatballs, this wine got a bit overwhelmed. It did bring out some oakiness though, which was not a bad thing. Overall, this wine is a tasty wine to drink on its own for people who like a drier red. It isn't too sweet, but it also isn't so dry it leaves your mouth feeling dry. If your sweetheart likes dry wines, search this one out (or the other Torres Garnacha, which is similar). If your sweetheart hates dry wines, AVOID! I would drink this on its own, with a fruity pork dish, or dessert.
P - This wine smells very mild. However, I found it to be very, very dry and I don't like dry wines (Editor's note: her face immediately indicated her dislike). I couldn't taste anything because I found it to be so overwhelmingly dry. This definitely did not improve with chocolate, and that is a rare statement for me. This wine is not for me.
W - There is a little bit of oakiness to this wine that is quite pleasant for a wine in this price range. It is a very mild red. It has good body, and there were legs. It was a very pleasant sipping wine. The light flavour lets you taste the chocolate. It would be good for desserts or drinking on its own. I found it was overpowered by dinner.
As a hilarious aside, the white ribbon on the wine turned pink over the course of pouring.
Enjoy your Valentine's wine, whatever it may be!
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