In this episode, I am tasting the 2018 Longevity Cabernet Sauvignon and discussing the mishaps and the blessings of procuring the wines from black winemakers. Go visit Longevity Wines and support black winemakers like Phil Long.

In this episode we are tasting Monica Di Sardegna from Sardina, Italy. A dry red wine with notes of citrus, peppers, and herbs and discuss steps on conquering your money mindset with Stella Gold, a certified trauma informed financial wellness educator and Money Optimist.

Notes on Monica Di Sardegna:

1. Monica is the name of the grape
2. It is cultivated in limited quantities
3. Mostly used for commercial wine making
4. Price point: $12.99
5. 12.5% alc.
6. This wine is available at Total Wine

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This is the last episode of 2021 and I am so excited to share the 2018 La Cattura, an organic, dry, red wine with you this evening. This wine is made primarily from Teroldego at 90% but, it does have 10% Syrah in it as well.

Teroldego has been planted in Trentino since the 25th Century.

Teroldego is an indigenous grape from the Trentino-Alto-Aldige region of Italy, which is the most northern region of Italy. However, La Caturra is from the Tuscan region of Italy.

This is the first red wine where I have picked up citrus notes and flavors and it has me a little perplexed. I am not scratching my head too much with this beautiful value beauty with its $12.99 price point.

Hello and welcome to Mo Wine - wine, mishaps, and more. I am your host Chandra Savage. This week we have a sweet treat. We are going to be tasting Carroll's Mead from Brotherhood Winery.

The Brotherhood winery was established in 1839 it is America's oldest winery on record. And what I love about the Brotherhood Winery, if you ever get a chance to visit, is so rustic, full of old-world charm, and it's one of my favorite places to visit and they have the best hot wings in life period but, I'm not here to talk about the that.

I'm here to talk about Mead. The history of Mead is very interesting. The monks used to use we make Mead just to have some income coming in. They used to make the sacramental wines and they used to make Mead as well. So Meed is a honey wine made from grape juice and honey.

It is fermented to make this delicious, sweet decadence, like dessert-style wine. This is not a wine that you put in a full wine glass. You should have a small sip. Maybe put it in a little teeny tiny cup and have it with dessert.

So the color is gorgeous is like a straw, golden color. And it's a thicker style white wine. So we don't need to like swirl it and aerate it. You know, it it is, is not one of those wines that different aromas are gonna pop out if you keep swirling it. So we don't need to do that. But the color is just so super gorgeous. Let's get into the nose because the nose always knows.

When I tell you that this literally smells like grape juice in the honey. There's nothing else to it. It's so super simple, simple, beautiful wine.

. Oh, it's so sweet. You know, I like my dry reds. But this is a sweet white wine. It's full-bodied. There's no acidity to this. A lot of people use ice wines which is even sweeter than Mead. And they use as a dessert wine to pair with Foie Gras because of the acidity and the fatness. so they have a little bit of Mead or Ice Wine with a very long finish. You're not going to get tipsy on this wine because it has 8% Alcohol.

this is nice. This is more wine on me. All my sweet wine lovers are going to love this. But like I said, Please for the love of God.

Don't pull a full grant don't pour a full glass of this wine. It's this meant to be sipped. In the past, it was a wine served at weddings, and it was served as like a sweetener, a welcome home from battle for Knights. And it's no fabled to it that they would serve this tonight to take down the bitter taste of battle. I love a good story in the back of the wine in to learn more about wines. There are also meaderies there are many many meaderies all around the world and in Germany.

Tips I want to leave you with.

Mead is made from honey and fermented grape juice and in France they call me Hydrogel, which I thought was really really interesting.

It has a very, very low alcohol content.

This is not a high cost wise probably like around $10 $12 is not going to break the bank. gonna elevate your wine education. So I encourage you to go out try it.

I will be back the week after next with another fabulous wine to educate you on please head over to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mowineforu if you want to show some love to Mo Wine. If you find this Mead and taste it. Please reach out to me on social media. I'm on Instagram @mowineforu for you Facebook at @mowineforu, Twitter @mowineforu, and all the interwebs. I would love to hear from you. If you're listening to this episode, take a screenshot to send it to me. I want to see the people I want to get all of the goods you are getting from me. Until next time, Ciao a tutti!

I was reflecting back on the beginning of my wine journey and in 2011 I wrote my first blog post about pursuing membership with the Wine Century Club. The Wine Century Club is a group of wine aficionados who are interested in spreading knowledge and you know, interest in wine like uncommon, uncommon grape varietals, which is what I do here, on this podcast.

In order to apply for membership, you have to fill out an application and at minimum, you have to taste 100 different grape varietals in order to you know, be a part of the membership. So it takes a lot of time, money, energy, and a lot of wine drinking in order to become a member of this society.

Last year, I reached my goal of filling out and completing my application and I sent it off to them so excited. You know, it feels so good when you reach a goal. However, I never heard back from anyone. So I'm like, let me give them some grace. I reached out again, and crickets I reached out again to their partner company crickets. It literally says on their website, that membership is open to everyone, even the dedicated Merlot drinker.

So I am just a little baffled and confused about why I have never heard from this organization.

Let me know your thoughts about this.

Hello and welcome to mo wine, mind mishaps, and more. We are here it is season four. Let's get it. I'm excited. I know I took a long hiatus, but I'm back on the blizzak. And we are starting off this season with our winter whites. So winter whites are not only for fashion, they're winter white minds that are more full-bodied. And the first one that we're going to get into this season is Vermentino.

It is a full-bodied wine from the Italian island of Sardinia. I am excited to bring this to you because whites are not only for spring and summer they are full-bodied whites that fare well with winter. And like some lighter style soups, not too heavy. And this is one of them I wanted to bring to you.

So, what would I pair this wine with just a lot of vegetable dishes, some roasted vegetables, some fish dishes, you have to think about where the history of the wine was comes from. So it's from that is from Ireland and Italian island off the main country of Italy. And so when you're coming from the island like you live and pair the wines with the foods, so there's going to be lots of vegetables, lots of seafood, lots of fish dishes, maybe light affair salads, shellfish, things of that nature.

I just wanted to come in tell you about all the excellent things that have been happening since I've been on my hiatus. Mo wine has a brand new website, I want you to go check it out. Let me know what you think. If you're listening to this episode, please take a screenshot of you listening to the episode and share it with me on Instagram at mo wine for you. I would love to see your pictures. Or if you are in the market for any wine or you want to try something out or you're feeling adventurous, I encourage you to go get some Vermentino.

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