Fresh Vine Wines
Don’t we all say at the end of the year, how much we want to “get healthy” for the New Year? We commit to eating less and exercising more, and January becomes a very long month! Fresh Vine Wines is a recent concept of wine for people who are fitness conscious. Why shouldn’t you be able to work out hard, and do all you can to keep yourself healthy and fit, and still be able to enjoy a few glasses of wine with your dinner? Fresh Vine Wines have been specifically crafted with no extra additives, all natural, low sugar, low calorie and low carb! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?
Founder Jamey Whetstone put two years into research to make a wine that could taste great and be good for you. We know the “good properties” in wine, it’s a natural beverage, there is resveratrol in the skins- possibly protecting the heart and lowering cholesterol, it boosts the immune system, and has anti-oxidants. Fresh Vine Wines was founded to promote these principals for people with active lifestyles.
Whetstone is no newbie, he made wine for more than 20 years in California’s famous Napa Valley, at Turley Cellars where he apprenticed after a career at the highly proclaimed Mustard’s Grill, in Napa, CA, then a sabbatical at the famed Domain Dujac in Burgundy, then founding his own Whetstone Cellars in 2002. Jamey’s wife Michelle runs Whetstone, while Jamey has ventured into the “lifestyle wine” category with Fresh Vine Wines. Jamey is a surfer, a gardener, a father, and a wine maker. His active life style was craving a premium wine that is low calorie, low sugar, and low carb. These wines are Keto and Vegan friendly. Jamey looked for lower sugar grapes, while trying to maintain quality of flavor. He met the challenge in Fresh Vine Wines, grown throughout California, produced and bottled in Napa.
Fresh Vine Chardonnay offers a nose full of ripe pear, green apple, lychee, hazelnut and toasty oak. There are notes of tropical fruit and citrus, with a medium body and a lingering pear finish. I give it two bones.
Fresh Vine Pinot Noir has a bright floral nose with hints of rose petal, dark cherry and baking spices. Flavors of red raspberry and plum, and a hint of chocolate on the finish. I give it two bones.
Fresh Vine Cabernet Sauvignon shows aromas of black cherry and blackberry pie and spice. The wine is medium bodied with concentrated fruit flavors like boysenberry and blackberry. This cab finishes with hints of baker’s chocolate and plum. I give it three bones.
Fresh Vine Wines are also a partner with the Tampa Bay Rays, and are a large contributor to Feeding Tampa Bay. Another reason to support a “healthy lifestyle” wine. Here’s to us celebrating the New Year, putting the challenges of 2020 behind us. With 2021, a fresh beginning, good health and good wine. Cheers!