Booze Reviews: Tomasello Winery’s Raspberry Wine

It's not often that I get to rave about a product. But this is one of my favorite dessert wines and, as we all head into the weekend and try to forget about Monday, I thought I'd share it with you and do a little raving.

This is the one fruit wine that I've been able to find in smaller stores that is made with 100% of the fruit on the bottle and won't break your wallet into a thousand pieces. Most other "fruity' wines are cheap and made with a mixture of some kind of grapes and a bit of fruit and oftentimes "natural" flavors, which to me just sounds like cheating. If you're going to make a fruit wine USE THE FRUIT! Tomasello uses only the fruit on the bottle to make their wines and it SHOWS.

Here's why this wine is so great: it actually tastes like raspberries. Stay with me now; I'm not high. This wine tastes like something you might make in your basement if you had a master wine-maker for a best friend. If you went to the store and bought a gazillion raspberries (spell check does not catch "gazillion"...good to know) and then under the watchful eye of your wine-ninja friend you fermented some kick-ass wine from only the freshest raspberries (not the crappy ones that come in every box either... THE GOOD ONES) this is what you'd have.

The other thing I like that Tomasello does is sell slightly smaller bottles (500ml). This means you can get them cheap (About $10-$12 a bottle where I buy it) and try new flavors without worrying that you're going to blow a bunch of cash on a crappy wine. All in all I think they've got 6 flavors now, all made with 100% of whatever fruit is on the bottle, including pomegranate, blueberry, and cherry. Take a chance on this one, you won't be disappointed.

Grade: **** (Highly Recommended) Price: $10-12

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