 Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horky. Hi, I'm Sheridan Tond. Welcome back to the show today. We have a cool show because we have American wine and Italian wine. So what's the theme here? What's going on? So we actually, these are these are wines that are distributed by our friends, taposhinsvino.com. I'll put it in the description box. We are not affiliates for them. They're just our friends, John and Irene Ingersoll. They live in Napa Valley and they're bringing in some high value for money wine into Napa. I was like, why are you bringing wine into Napa? These are nicely priced wines in comparison to those Napa wines, right? Regardless wherever you go, you need some diversity, right? Yeah, exactly. So we're getting excited. I'm excited to taste some of these wines today. I used a Coravan model to Elite. They sent it to me and pouring into our Gabriel glasses. So I'm thankful for that. You want to grab your glass? Let's get ready to go. Yeah, I was wondering what's going on. They're all in two glasses. So we only have two wines to taste today. First, we have this producer that they just brought on called Bokish. Now Bokish is actually from Lodi, south of Sacramento in the San Joaquin Valley. Spanish origins, they worked overseas in Spain, came back planning only Spanish grapes in Lodi. Lodi is known for a lot for Old Vine Zinfandel. I'm excited to try this because we drank with them when we visited them in Napa, the Bokish Granace 2014 Terra Alta Vineyard. This wine is killer. If you don't buy it from them, find it, buy it, drink it, love it. Fantastic wine. It was in French American Oak for 18 months. There's no oak kind of light color. Fruity, strawberry, cherry with white pepper. Easy to drink, soft tannins. I'm telling you, I was crazy about. I'd give 4.3. I think this one's awesome. You weren't as high on it as I was, but I was going crazy. Oh, I liked it a lot. It's a completely different, very unusual expression of Granace. It's pretty. It's really pretty. So I'm a little bit scared that the Granace Blanca is not going to be as good as the Granace. So this is the Bokish Granace Blanca, Granace Blanc 2016, 20 US dollars, the red's 23 US dollars, six months in stainless steel, six months in neutral oak. I am excited to taste this. I don't drink nearly as much as Granace Blanc because I want to. We had some killer ones from Galbi and Roussillon from Matassa. We're going to Languedoc in a little bit. So we're excited about that. Let's give this a go. For those of you who don't know, Rome Grape, Granace Blanc actually brings, I think it has the highest, the city out of drawing a blank here. I had a Mars on Roussa. I'm sorry. All right. Let's give this a little bit of a go. Very lemony. Apple. And apple. Fresh, fresh, fresh, fresh. Green apple. We're thinking lemon on the nose. I think I almost, there's a little bit of flintiness going on, which I like about it. I think that's about it. Let me give this a go. I find aromas pretty straightforward. Simple. But I do like the mouth feel, the texture. It's just got just, it's a dry one. It's got a touch of residual sugar to build up the body, give a sweet finish. Listen, I'm not as excited about, it's a Granace Blanc, but it's similar profile where it has enough fruitiness, yet enough for most people like, but enough seriousness to draw people in. What else do you think? I agree with you. Both wines have similar things. Some more accessible, fruiting, bright, fresh. I'm not that high on this wine, but it's because it's just my style, like what I wouldn't go for. I can see the benefit though, like where it feels, the market that it feels. Yeah, definitely. It's people, people like us. For me personally, I'm about 3.3.9 out of five on Vino. I still think it's very good wine, not ripping my face off like this red though. The red was killer. Shall we move on? Yeah. All right. Let's move on. So the next wine that we have, we have this Italian producer makes wines from all over Italy. His name is the Vino, Roberto, isn't he? He's making Barbarresco, Barolo, Chianti superiori, Montipolciano di Abruzzo, I think Olengeroso, Chianti superiori. So a lot of different wines works with different farmers. We actually drank this with John and Irene, the Barbarresco 2009 from the village of Barbarresco, 92 points suckling, which was cool. They said that all they did, they asked to suckling to rate the wines, they sent to him, he gave him a score. This was really good Barbarresco. It wasn't the most mind blowing in the world, but it's everything that I wanted, the cranberry, the tar, a little bit of earthiness, kind of the hazelnut character. The tans were developed 2009, obviously. This is 36 US dollars. I think I was 4.2 out of five on this. I'm a Vino. I thought it was really good. You? We were lucky to catch it at the right age. We're drinking a lot of it. So this is what we're actually going to taste today. This is the Venom Barolo from 2011. This is from La Mora. So I'm expecting this to be a little bit softer La Mora sandy soil. We've been there actually. We've been to Barolo. We like La Mora because those wines are accessible early. Excuse me. Let's give this a go. First of all, has true Nebiolo color, some browning on the edges, lighter color. Let me see if this is true Barolo. I think this suckling gave us 90 points actually. Cherry, rose, rose petal, some fresh, beautiful green. And the old worldiness that you want, right? I know that he works with local farmers. Some of his wines are certified organic. This one is not, but it doesn't matter. Let's give this on a little bit. They go here. Very nice. No, it's very floral. Very pretty. It's a lighter Barolo. It's like almost like a heavier Barbarisco type deal. Cranberry, cherry, for me, I get a little bit of tarred, not a ton. Sometimes I like that a little bit more in my Barolo. Herbal, floral, touch of perfume. Oh, it's developing a little bit of tobacco finish to it. Very, very nice. Tobacco and cherry cola. Again, both these wines, this isn't the most, don't think that you're getting Conterno or Naldi, you know, those kind of Barolos. Very nice drinking Barolo. The tannins are very soft, remember Yodol? Yeah, it still, it still greets on the cheek a little bit, but it's not harsh. 38 U.S. dollars. So for Barolo's tannins, that's pretty much a bargain. I like it. I'm not going crazy over the top of that. I think it's very good. For me, this is kind of why easily 4.0 out of 5. I think this is very delicious. How much did you score the Barbarisco? 4.2. Okay. I would give it 4.2 as well, because both are the same quality. Oh, okay, okay. So Sirene's high. No, no, no. I'm just, I like it just as much. I just think that because this is 2011, this is 2009, I see the potential that it would develop into something beautiful. So you are enjoying this? I'm enjoying this. Okay, great. So check out these wines. Actually, we have discount code for these wines. I will put it up on the screen right now. I think you get 10% off. Once again, we're not affiliates. So if you buy, you don't buy, you're not hurting our feelings at all. It's just something that nice that we give you. Anything you want to talk about anymore on these two wines? No, no. I think this is ganache again. It's really worth sticking out because it's a different expression. Yeah, I think people, yeah, just to sum it up, you know, for people, especially in America, you're drinking, you know, Sauvignon Blanc Chardonnay, try some Rhone whites. Fantastic. You can give you different flavor profiles. Nevello too, if you're drinking Pinot Noir, Cabernet, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot. Check out Nevello. It's awesome, great, right? Let's go. So guys, if you like this video, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Travel. I will see you for the next episode.