Wine Review : �Pink' by Yellowglen

‘Pink’ is a sparkling wine produced by Yellowglen Vineyard of Australia.

While shopping at my local Wal Mart shortly before Halloween, a friendly-faced product demonstrator clad in a cloak, presumably dressed to look like a fortune teller, asked me to touch her crystal ball and find out what kind of wine I was in the mood for today. After two hours in the store with half my brood (the 2 youngest out of four), I’m sure I looked like an easy sale. I know I felt like one. Anyway, there were enough witnesses around, so I touched her tell-tale ball.

Hues of pink and blue, rimmed with traces of yellow indicated two choices for me, one I didn’t buy, but the other sounded good so I bit. ‘Pink’ by Yellowglen of Australia. By now, I needed a drink.

Pink was described by the vineyard as a wine with “Strawberry aromas and refreshing fruit flavors of sweet berry and refreshing lime.”. To me, it sounded as if Pink was a berry-flavored version of a Moscato, one of my all-time favorites. Moscatos are indicative of peaches, a sweet sparkling wine that pairs well with cream desserts, or as a dessert by itself (I couldn’t say about pairing it, but it goes down very easily on its own). I like berries, strawberries in particular, better than probably any other fruit. Pink sounded like the perfect way to cap a day at Wal Mart and an impending school Halloween evening extravaganza.

Duties done for the day (I’ll spare you the gory details), I poured myself a much anticipated glass of Pink wine and settled onto the couch for a sweet sparkling treat and some bad Friday night TV. I got half of what I expected. The TV was bad.

I wouldn’t necessarily say the wine was bad, but it was less than I had hoped. Pink had plenty of sparkle, but little in the way of sweetness. The much anticipated strawberry and fruit flavors were weak. A background of lime was present in the light to medium weight wine.