THEAmateurSommelier

Peaches and pears...best way to describe this wine...not a lot of mineral water tasting from other drier rieslings...needed to be much colder than it was (I thought it was okay where it was in the wine fridge!). Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

The last vacation wine tasting brings in yet another guest that no, I did not feel like editing out because when do I ever edit anything? For a 2023 wine, there were a lot more secondary characteristics than I anticipated; if someone from Fumane, Italy would be able to comment as to the wines in that area as far as if they're all earthy, tannin, not a lot of fruit characteristics that would be great! Not sure if it's a one off wine or that's the standard in that particular region of Italy. Surprisingly not overwhelming with tannin on the palette; it was quite balanced and smooth. Went very well with the braciole (involtini to some crazy people out there!)! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Apologies to the Greek audience; I did not realize until post that I pronounced the wine name wrong! HORRIBLY! Yikes! To be fair, this is the first Greek wine I am tasting on the channel and clearly I cannot speak and/or read Greek! Still delicious though; almost like a Chardonnay Light. Why are the wines from this vacation in the Light category? Yes, there will be a guest taster for this week and next week as well and no we did not feed the dog any wine (you will see in the video). Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Over the next few weeks, the vacation wine tastings will be released for everyone to see; yes, I drank WAY TOO MUCH WINE that Sunday! I am more amazed I made it to my planes to get back home! I'm calling this first wine: the Italian Sauvignon Blanc Light! Mostly because after consulting other people, they thought it was an Italian version of a Sauvignon Blanc. There you go everyone! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

If you haven't checked out Thursday's video check it out for more context. The wines from this week appear to have suffered from bottle sickness and that's why the palettes were muted. I need to move my wine rack somewhere my dog won't get to it and knock them all over. Where that will be I haven't decided yet; there is not enough room currently in the wine fridge for them (though that may change after I get back from vacation). At least with this wine I could kind of detect some characteristics of the palette, but it still tasted muted and watery and diluted and bleh! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed! I understand doing the same wine(s) over and over again may not be entertaining, but they can be useful in cases like this to determine a wine quality problem and that helps me out tremendously!

If you have not had a chance to watch Thursday's video check it out for more context. I believe the wine suffered from bottle sickness and I didn't know about such a concept until AFTER the bottle was poured down the sink! YIKES! I'm saddened for wasting wine as well as the potential from this wine from its nose! I'll need to be trying this again on the channel in the future, so make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed! And comment down below anyway if there's a doctor for taste buds and who it would be; I am quite curious still and may need some help in the future (just saying!).

If you didn't watch Thursday's video about this week's set of wine tastings, check it out before watching! The reason the wines will have muted taste is most likely due to bottle sickness requiring me to move my wine rack again to somewhere the dog won't do parkour knocking the wine bottles over. I will need to try these bottles again in the near future for a more accurate representation of their tasting profiles; that being said, I may be leaving this one out because THAT AGGRAVATED MY REFLUX WAY TOO HARD! A lot more acidic than I expected! Even if it wasn't suffering from bottle sickness, I think I would have had to add baking soda to the GLASS just to keep drinking it (and no, water or grape juice did not help! I did try!)! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

So for the upcoming wine tastings this week, I noticed all the wines I tasted had a muted palette; they tasted diluted or watery. I thought I was getting sick until I did some research and found it may be an issue called bottle shock or bottle sickness, which is when the wine is jostled around too much during shipping or when a certain DOG likes to do parkour around my wine rack! Needless to say, I believe the wines I'm tasting this upcoming week were affected by bottle sickness and I need to find a different place to store my wines (AGAIN!) so that they don't get knocked over continuously by this dog! Yes, there is a picture of this dog in the video; he cannot keep getting away with this! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Yes, I am once again doing another day of uploading of recording. This would have gone up sooner if my phone wasn't being weird with uploading content to my Google drive! It's almost as weird as this wine smelling like wet asphalt! It still tasted good though; hard pear flavored mineral water. Interesting. Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Hi! I still have no Internet! I'm publishing this from work WiFi. F! So this wine tasting is the second Hungarian wine on the channel and I'm nearly 100% sure it was from the wine bar in Chester, UK last year! I may have let it age too long as it tasted a lot more like a Sauvignon Blanc and was a lot more acidic than I remember (then again I don't remember much after the first three glasses of wine!)! Still a lot better than the red table wine though! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Happy late upload this week! The Internet is still out and I'm trying to use my mobile hotspot to get stuff done, which is taking an extremely long time to get anything done and is ridiculous! Honestly I could drink this wine to pass the time because it is so good, so bold, so intense in tannin and brandy, but doesn't really have an intense smell strangely enough. Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed and hopefully next week I will have Internet again and get the next wine tasting out faster!

First wine tasting after Covid and...it did not go well! Not only are my senses still dulled from being sick, the acid reflux has greatly aggravated! This will only spell future conflict for my body and the channel, but hopefully I can get better physically soon...maybe...not making any promises at this point, but I also don't want to retire from wine tasting content creation yet! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed! The noise in the background is the new ice maker machine; I'm going to have to find a new place in the kitchen to record more than likely!

I've been sick with COVID since last Saturday and was confirmed on Monday. I have felt terrible since; between the coughing, sore throat, and being unable to smell and taste anything, I am in no condition to get a wine tasting video done this week! For everyone on Rumble, my gaming channel YoboiAAronGames will still have the weekly stream going Friday; unsure if I'll have a face cam for that or not. Depends on how well I feel. Make sure to check that out, leave a like out of pity, and follow the channel for a new wine tasting video HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK!

It took me a long time to find this wine to review on the channel and I was hoping with the flare up I'm currently dealing with that maybe it would be a good wine substitute...IT WAS NOT!!! Very watered down, muted profile on the nose and palette, not even sweet to try to make up for the loss of alcohol and other wine properties! It was just...not good!!! Welch's grape juice had to save the day to make it more palatable! Unfortunate! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

I know Pinot Noirs are supposed to be more acidic and I should avoid them due to my reflux, but I was in the mood for a Pinot Noir and I just happened to be in the liquor store and they didn't have the wine I was looking for and suggested this wine. I wish they didn't! It's not that it's a bad wine; it's just...painful! For reflux sufferers! Who should not be having wine! And it needs to aerate. A LOT! Maybe even some baking soda. Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

The secondary characteristics of this wine almost overpower any primary characteristics left in this wine. Tannin, tobacco, spice, oak barrel, not very fruity, not very acidic, hints of licorice at the finish, still a fascinating wine, though for someone new to wine this would not be my first choice. Still an interesting wine though. Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

That Chardonnay was quite delectable! The smoothness, the buttery essence, the oak barrel seeping in, the random residual sugary sweetness for some reason, and overall quite dangerous to the point I drank 3/4 of the bottle (not the full but pretty darn close!), so make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

This wine was dangerous! I'm more amazed I did not drink the entire bottle; IT WAS SO GOOD! Perfect balance between acid and tannin, dark fruit characteristics that may have included plums, hints of spice and oak barrel, excellent! You can just tell the wine is high quality! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

This might be a slightly drier variation of our Apothic reds and Lodi wines but still holds those dark fruit characteristics with vanilla, cocoa, and coffee beans on the nose and palette. Would still recommend to those who prefer the Apothic Red brand, so make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Did you ever think a wine that tasted like a Cab Franc would smell like a white wine? Have some tastes like a white wine? Wonder why it smells like someone spilled a bottle of lavender oil into the wine? Me neither! Most likely needed to aerate more! Maybe age more? Question everything in my life at this point! Basically! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel!

Between the Bluetooth headset not wanting to work to my laptop camera app deciding to glitch out my channel, I just went to the old reliable mobile phone to get this wine tasting done! Better mobile setup than I've had in the past, but still a disappointment as I would have preferred to use the laptop (it worked for the previous wine tasting of additional disappointment!). Not one of my better evenings! Much better Chardonnay though, although I have to admit I need to expand my palette now to nectarine and apricots. Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

I was quite disappointed with this wine as I thought there would be more...substance...life...personality...not bland fermented grape juice that just happened to have buttery, oakey Chardonnay characteristics...huge letdown for me!!! Not even worthy of being saved as vinegar (speaking of, the most recent vinegar projects have not gone well, but hopefully I'll have something in the next couple of months...HOPEFULLY!!!)! Needless to say, I must find another wine to go with my dinner, but make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

Bold, red, FABULOUS! The dark fruit characteristics, coffee and cocoa beans, higher tannin than acidity, FANTASTIC STEAK WINE! I did NOT want to share this with my friend while he was here (I did anyway and probably a good thing too for reasons I will not share but it did not end well!)! Make sure to leave a like and follow the channel if you enjoyed!

It's been a long time coming, but I at last found an iced wine to try for one of my subscribers on YouTube and I must say, it tasted a lot more like a dessert wine/something I would put into a smoothie! There's also not a lot of volume in the bottle as I quickly discovered, as well as the price being so high as the process to make iced wine is particularly difficult! I'm excited to try this wine and if y'all are curious as well make sure to hit that like button and follow the channel for future wine tasting videos, and comment down below if you have any wine suggestions I should try in the future!

When you smell this particular wine, it makes you think of a merlot or cabernet sauvignon but upon tasting this wine, it reminds me at least a lot more of a pinot noir. A quite complex wine with characteristics of dark fruit, perhaps sweetened plum, hints of spice and vanilla bean, much more acidic than tannin present and a much lighter wine than expected. Makes me excited to have it with dinner tonight and if you enjoyed make sure to hit that like button and follow the channel!