Tasting 20 - Pink Savage

• Name: Savage Winery - Pink Savage
• Variety: Pink Catawba
• Region: Erie, New York
• Country: USA
• Year: None mentioned
• Price: $12.95
• Review: (www.vivino.com) Sweet and tart. A perfect summer wine. 
• Your review: A rose wine. This wine is overpoweringly sweet. Jammy, with a very strong flavor of grape juice. Don't think I would buy it.
• Not paired with food, it was a tasting at the Broadway Market in Buffalo.

Tasting 19 - Pechette

• Name: Victoria Cellars - Pechette
• Variety: White blend
• Region: Niagara, New York
• Country: USA
• Year: None mentioned
• Price: $12.95
• Review: (www.elmaliquor.com) Today I am tasting wines from Victorianbourg Wine Estate in Niagara County, New York. These are all slightly flavored wines but they are made with New York State grapes to start with. The first one up that I’m going to be tasting is the Pechette which is a Chardonnay based wine, flavored with real white peaches grown in New York State. It smells like peaches right away, that very ripe peach aroma which is nice. You can faintly smell the Chardonnay underneath and it has a slight frizzante to it. Like a little very light effervescence, which adds to the flavors. You can sense that there’s a flavor of Chardonnay underneath which makes it not just a sugary, too sweet of a wine. It adds some complexity to it as well. This is very nice and very refreshing chilled for the summer time.
• Your review: Just the slightest tinge of yellow color. Peach aroma prominent, with a sort of light grape juice flavor coming through. Light and refreshing in the mouth. Did not detect any effervescence.
• Not paired with food, it was a tasting at the Broadway Market in Buffalo.

Tasting 18 - Alamos Malbec

• Name: Alamos - Malbec
• Variety: Malbec
• Region: Mendoza
• Country: Argentina
• Year: 2017
• Price: Not sure - served by my host.
• Review: (www.winemag.com) A classically Argentine wine, Alamos Malbec blends the country’s signature variety – Malbec – and its hypnotic aromas of violets and deep, full flavors of plum with small portions of Syrah and Bonarda to add dark cherry and blackberry flavors. Deft oak usage adds layers of complexity with smoothly-integrated tones of spice and vanilla. The full, firm structure and balanced tannins create a rich mouthfeel and expansive finish, and an entirely unforgettable wine.
• Your review: Deep purple and clear. Prominent aroma and taste of plum. Felt a little diluted in the mouth, but treate balanced and smooth nonetheless. A very nice wine.
• Paired with pecorino, ziti with tomato sauce and meatballs.

Wine in the National Gallery of Art

As we all know, wine was prominent at the Last Supper. Here is the way Tintoretto portrayed it.

The whole painting.

 The glass.

The jug.

Some Eastern European Wines

Martin Pomfy - Frankovka modra' rose'

Slovakia wine made from the Blaufrankisch (Lemberger) grape

Palugyay - Chardonnay

Also from Slovakia

Chateau Modra - Cabernet Sauvignon

Also from Slovakia, reflecting the results of over 400-year long tradition of vine-growing and wine-making by the Šebo family from Modra. 

Cramele Recas - Pinot Noir

A Romanian winery since 1447

Wine Movie Suggestion

Here's a suggestion for another wine movie.

"Any Old Port in a Storm" Columbo, season 3, episode 2.

https://youtu.be/WB9-HTWwoxo

Rivalry and murder in an old, California, family winery.

Tasting 17 - Horse Heaven Hills - Red Blend Les Chevaux

• Name: Horse Heaven Hills - Red Blend Les Chevaux
• Variety: Red Blend
• Region: Columbia Valley, Washington
• Country: USA
• Year: 2015
• Price: Not sure - served by my host.
• Review: (www.winemag.com) The mint, green herb, vanilla and blackberry aromas are elusive. The flavors are lightly styled, with a sweet finish.
• Your review: Medium red color and clear. Detected a smooth creaminess that I hadn't sensed in a red wine before. A little spicy.
• Paired with pastas with meat sauce, pesto.  Roasted sweet peppers, chicken and mushrooms.