Wine Review

Far Eastern Shore
Wild Swan Rouge

Tien-Seng & Tara Chiu of Far Easton Shore Winery (Trading as Mesozoic Technologies, LLC), Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, USA.

Far Eastern Shore Winery.

This husband and wife team had been making home made wine for many years, with friends and family continually asking for more. So they turned their hobby into a micro-winery, located on the Eastern shore of Maryland, launching it in 2008. They concentrate on the production of lightly sweet (semi-sweet) wines infused with fruit.

Due to local restrictions, the winery cannot accept visitors or provide sampling on site.

They produce less than 200 cases each year and sell through local Maryland retailers. At these quantities, bottles are hand filled and labelled. We understand they are seeking to increase production levels and we eagerly look forward to the day they can sell their wine direct!

Shiraz, with berries.

7% (14 Proof).

$$.

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This is closer to a dessert wine and would be ideal with fruit and chocolate dishes or light to medium cheese. It could be a good addition to red meat recipes using fruit ingredients.

Like all their products the base wine is masked, but not unpleasantly so, by the fruit - it is the star of the show. There is a strong berry aroma on the nose and this is continued on the palate (only lighter) – we could identify the taste of blackberry and strawberry, and perhaps, in the background, raspberry. This is an easy sipping wine and would make a spring or fall picnic or barbeque particularly pleasant.

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