Peter Mertes
Sweet Red Dornfelder 2014
$12
Rheinhessen, Germany
Wine Review (Bank Channel): The trademark German red grape varietal Dornfelder has a lovely purity of soft red berry fruit. Integrated soft tannins combined with forward fruit flavors make for a perfectly balanced everyday sipping wine.
My Review: On the nose, I could immediately identify the sweetness of this wine. Berries dominated the bouquet, and I couldn't detect any tannins that characterize reds. On the palate, the sweetness carried over. Compared to the other wines, you could have convinced me this wine had hundreds of grams of sugar. Strawberry jam and raspberry's complimented the smoothness of the wine very well. However, the wine was way too one-sided with the sweetness., throwing off its balance.
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