Wineability® Wine Consumer Review at Sams' Club - Angoves' Wines

Frank: Hello everybody. Bernard: Hi, I'm Bernard Leonard Comado and this is Frank Vigneron and we are with the Wineability.com and we rate wines on a three categories scale; outstanding, very good, and good and today we’re going to talk about two wines available at Sam’s Club and these wines are from the same winery in Australia, South Australia to be exact and they are from Angoves. Now, this winery has a very interesting story. It’s so interesting in fact that I’d like to read an excerpt just a couple of sentences from the back label. In 1974, the South Australian governments compose early acquired Angoves original vineyards in the foothills to the Northeast of Adelaide to make way for housing. That’s eminent domain of the many acres of vines that once group probably, only nine vines remained. Hence, the name of this wine, Nine Vines. Frank: This wine is a Viognier and the Viognier is tradition from France. It’s a wine that they use to soften up all the wines such as syrup. It comes from the Rhone Valley. Bernard: It’s a 2006 of Viognier. A 50% by volume and this, we found this one to be good. Frank: Yes, it was ready, that’s good by the consumer panel. The other wine we’re very excited to talk about because it’s a Rosé and not that many Rosé are comparatively to France from where I’m from in the United States and this is a very good Rosé that we strongly recommend. It is available at Sam’s Club for $410.00. Bernard: It’s a combination of 70% Grenache and 30% of Shiraz . We also found this wine to be good on one of the scale. Frank: Very good. [Voice overlap] The Grenache, as being tested with DNA testing and has been found as being the mother of all the vital grapes that comes from Europe. It’s spicy, very flavored, soft, high sugar content which is often times use to make fortified wines like ports in Australia. Also some what is called vin doux like Banyuls from Roussillon. The Grenache, a wine that compose 80% of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape and there is something that comes from Australia which is called “GSM”. It comes from many different places. GSM stands for Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvèdre which is the blend that is very typical and it’s becoming a signature of the Barossa Valley. Now, let’s talk about Rosè. What is a Rosè? There are several ways of doing a Rosè. There is a maybe a way that is not the most recommended which is to take a white wine and add a little bit of a red wine to give its color. Maybe this is why the wine canister or maybe the snobs of wine don’t like so much the Rosè because they don’t see it as a true varietals. There is no such a thing as the Rosè wine varietal. The other way, or the real way actually to take your red wine and to crush the red wine and only keep the very lights, a colored wine in order to make the wine. And that’s the old traditional way, they way they would do it in France and Provost 00:03:38 the two biggest productions the region or in Spain which is also an area that comes through that they make a lot of Rosè. In America, the Rosè are becoming popular and then often time known under White Zinfandel. I've said this we really rate commands this Rosè, it’s under $10.00 available at Sam’s Club. It’s from 2007 and it’s from Nine Vines population of Angoves. Bernard: These wines represent to me an independent spirit, freedom and they were produced despite the government acquiring a large amount of the property in South Australia so very interesting story and we hope you enjoy our presentation. We hope to see you again. Frank: Thank you.