Alfalfa Farm Winery - (August 2015) This was the last of three Massachusetts wineries we visited while on vacation this past summer. My wife and I enjoyed twelve of their available wines.
While I tried their 2014 seyval blanc, one of their estate wines, with its golden color and citrus finish, my wife tried the Silo white, pinot grigio fermented as a light sweet wine, which had a nice honeysuckle taste on the end. We enjoyed the seyval blanc better. While I tried the merlot, my wife had the white merlot. The merlot had an overripe raspberry aroma and was heavy on fruit taste while the white merlot was balanced and more inviting to the nose and palette.
My wife went quickly to the sweet wines tasting the Farmhouse white, a gewurztraminer with similarities of a moscato, it needed to warm a bit to get the grape aromatics, but it was not sweet like moscato, their sangria, made from cabernet franc, and the rogue red, which was better than the white merlot, although it did have an aftertaste.
I finished with the cabernet sauvignon, with no oak flavor; it was deep in color and well-balanced, the marechal foch, their other estate wine, with deep color, it delivered an interesting twist to the reds I've tried in the past, but I cannot describe it as this is a new varietal for me, and cabernet franc. I enjoyed the marechal foch best but also purchased a cabernet franc to compare to others I have.
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