This wine is tart with lots of acid. It’s off dry with high carbonation.

This one has strong pear notes with lots of acid. Lightly sweet. We would have liked it to have slightly more bubbles. While we enjoyed the taste, this didn’t seem like sparkling wine to us.

When I tried a second bottle later, I found it very dry, without much sweetness at all, which was delightful, with a much more sparkling wine like flavor profile. It also was the perfect mixer with Figlia Fiore.

This sparkling wine has a clean and crisp taste with notes of bright pear. It’s off dry but balanced with bright and sour. We liked the bubble quality.

This sparkling wine is reminiscent of a sparkling moscato, definitely a sec wine. We also thought it would be a good choice for mixing.

This was a favorite of our panel. It is dry, but not bone dry with lots of character and complexity. It had some very light sweetness in the middle but a dry finish. We found it to drink like a brut sparkling wine.

We found this sparkling wine to be tart and bright, a little like a sour beer. It has a peach nose but isn’t sweet or bitter.

This wine has a tart beginning but mellows quickly in the mouth. Even though this is fairly dry, there are a lot of stone fruit flavors which bring the quality of sweetness. It finished tart on the end, pleasantly so.

The panel agreed that this wine doesn’t taste non-alcoholic. It’s almost spicy in the middle with a richness in the mouth. It’s very lightly sweet, but still dry, and it doesn’t have a bitter character.

We found this slightly flatter in character than we would like, with almost a tea-like flavor.

This has a great flavor and at first seemed lightly off dry, but seemed to get drier the more I sipped it. Sparkling, it seems perfect for summer. I did end up trying some of this when it was mostly flat and found the wine base itself to be delicious and complex.

We found this very tart, but dry.

We found this sweet and tart, almost like a starburst. It didn’t taste like a rosé to us, but we enjoyed it.

This wine was a favorite of the panel. It was lightly sweet with a fruity character, just what you’d expect from an alcoholic sparkling rosé. Even so, it was dry.

This wine is off-dry, rather than totally sweet, with a pronounced strawberry flavor. It did make at least one of us want to make a float with vanilla ice cream.

This wine is very tart and bright with a beautiful apricot scent. This wine was also a bit polarizing, as some people loved the stone fruit notes and others felt it made the wine seem too sweet.

We got banana on the nose, but with none of that flavor in the wine. This is off-dry with gentle bubbles and lots of red fruit. This was a panel favorite.

This wine has a great smell and a good amount of bubbles. We found it dry and light, without as much bitterness as alcoholic sparkling wine. It has a fruity character, but without a fruit coming to the fore. Some members of the panel noted an aftertaste they weren’t sure about, but others did not. I found it to finish slightly sour, not unpleasantly.

The panel found this to be a spot-on Riesling, off dry and crisp in all the right ways.

We found this wine to have an almost lime characteristic when first opened, but it mellowed into a fruity wine that we thought would be perfect for a summer day with some hints of apricot. Very, very lightly off-dry, but I hesitate to call it sweet.

There was almost an oaky characteristic to this wine, which we found unexpected in a Sauvignon blanc. The structure was a little less complex than we would have liked.

We found this wine to be tart with a honeydew characteristic, very similar to a New Zealand Sauvignon blanc. This was a favorite of the panel.

This wine is has a wonderful smell and lemon notes. At first it had almost a sour beer characteristic, but after a bit of time, it opened up to reveal a classic flavor. It’s not sweet, but crisp and tart. On the lemony citrus side of New Zealand sauvignon blanc rather than the honeydew.

This wine is off dry, with a definite peach flavor. Lighter in body than you might expect of a Chardonnay.

Some members of our panel expected a bit more oak, based on the varietal, but it was a very drinkable white with a different characteristic and texture than a lot of the whites we tried. It approaches more of a steel barrel chardonnay.

This was a panel favorite. Essentially, it’s a mulled white wine, which is fairly uncommon in the US (even in the alcoholic form) but much more common in Germany, where this wine is made. We drank it lightly chilled, but you can gently warm it. It’s fairly sweet, but complex, with all the spices you expect from mulled wine. The white wine makes the whole experience seem lighter.

This wine is on the sweeter side with a jammy characteristic. There was a strange initial scent we couldn’t place that did eventually settle down.

We found this version to be a bit astringent and yet not as flavorful as we would like at first. However, like many of the wines we tried, once it opened up, it was a nice almost totally dry rosé with a mineral characteristic and a strawberry finish.

Off-dry rather than full-blown sweet, this has a cotton candy characteristic.

Some of the panel smelled rose before sipping. We found this to be bright and tart.

We found this very acidic and dry, but with a strawberry flavor. We were happy to find it so complex.

We got notes of berry pie from this. The panel felt that it had notes of cherry juice or mixed berry runoff. It was very tart.

This smells like wine. We found the character to be tart and more juice-like than wine.

This wine was very polarizing. It has initial notes of tobacco and leather (this one definitely needs to be decanted or otherwise aerated). Some of us were put off by those initial strong flavors, but they did mellow. This was a favorite red of part of the panel, with a light body comparable to a Zinfandel, but with good structure and tannin.

This was sweeter than we were expecting with notes of chocolate and cherry.

This wine has a hint of spice to it, but it still drank more like tart juice to many of us at first. However, with time, it opened up nicely and we found it very quaffable.

This is the red version of the Glühwein, or spiced wine, and we found it delightful and festive, spiced, but not overwhelmingly so, just as you would hope. Goodvines does recommend heating this one as well, but we also enjoyed it at room temperature.

We found this wine to be on the oaky side and tart, though the oak does diminish a bit with aeration and time. It was one of the wines that came closer to hitting the mark for us. Several of us would drink a glass of this one.

We found this one to be oaky and very tart initially. When it began to open up, the tartness mellowed slightly and it was possible to taste a bit more depth. It’s a smooth wine but does have some tannin and texture, and it’s nice and dry. This was a panel favorite.

This wine is lightly sweet and smooth. We felt it was on the juicy side. A perfect Sangria wine.

We found this wine to be tart and juicy immediately, but the rest of the sip didn’t develop as we would have liked. There was some flatness and bitterness which were disappointing. However, as with so many of these, this was much better the next day, losing the tartness and giving us a light-bodied red.

The panel agreed that this one is approaching an alcoholic red wine experience. We found it had more body than some of the reds we tried. After it had spent some time open, it began to taste like a Zinfandel, or even a very light Malbec. There were some tannins and structure and once it opened up, it was sippable on its own.

Initially this wine was very tart, almost like a sweet tart. When it began to aerate, it developed a floral nose and flavor and a very faint sweetness. It’s smooth, still with some tartness and is light bodied without a large amount of tannin.