This is one of my recent finds! and new staple in my wine stable. Middle Sister is a California winery. The wine is vinted and bottled in Santa Rosa, California.
The Drama Queen is a Pinot Grigio. It is approximately a $10-11 bottle in Texas. This is my first blog about wine, I promise to post more accurate price points in the future.
My husband and I both LOVE this wine. It calls itself drama queen, but is nothing but SMOOTH! A lot of Pinot Grigios and Sauvignon Blancs are very tart or acidic. This is neither.
It is a pale yellow color with a light, fresh aroma, reminiscent of lemon grass and shortbread. The flavors are semi-sweet. If you avoid sweet wine like the plague, this may be on the sweeter side, although my husband who abhors sweet wine really enjoys this one. I think it has a sweet side but a smooth finish.
It is better chilled, not cold. I noticed that the flavors change as it warms. Cold, the front flavors are very much lemony, while warm the flavors are more peaches and pears. I was talking on the phone to the husband in Iraq, my wine had a chance to reach near room temperature. The peach flavor really started to stand out. The wine starts to warm and the flavor of honeyed peaches is a tasty undercurrent to the lemony Pinot Grigio flavor.
This is a white wine drinkers go to type of wine. I would bring a bottle of this to anyone's party. If nothing else, to drink it myself.
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