Tasting - La Sera Red Ambrosia (Week 8)

Name: La Sera Red Ambrosia

http://www.snooth.com/wine/la-sera-red-ambrosia/

Variety: Malvasia

Region: Piedmont

Country: Italy

Year: NV

Price: $11.95

City Wine Merchant Review:
"A specialty of Italy's Piedmont region, this is an absolutely delicious and versatile sweet red. Made entirely from Malvasia grapes, this is slightly sparkling, or 'frizzante', with scents of rose petals and the flavors of crushed strawberry and raspberry. This is ideal as a dessert wine, but also great by itself, and a good match for intensely flavored foods such as Oriental cuisine."


My Review:
This is a sparkling wine with a purply pink color.  It has a raspberry cider scent with some floral, garden aspects that kind of make it smell like a perfume.  It's very tingly with some sweet raspberry flavors.  It's kind of a softer kind of sweet, not very sharp or tangy.  There are raspberry and cranberry flavors with maybe even a hint of strawberry.  I like it a lot, but only for small doses.  Most sparkling wines I've had are white, so it's interesting to have a very sweet and sparkling red wine.  It's very different from the stereotypical red wine.  I would definitely recommend this!


Pairings: I didn't try this with food, but I think it would be good with some kind of rich dessert.  Maybe a berry pie, or a raspberry cheesecake, or maybe just something chocolaty.