Dinner Pairing-Chenin Blanc, Chianti and Moscato

I recently did my last dinner-wine pairing for this class and it was interesting.

I paired 3 basic wines and dinners:
Beringer 2014 Chenin Blanc (California) and Sweet Golden Corn
Ruffino Chianti, 2013 (Italian) and basic chicken and marinara pasta
Menage a Trias 2013 Moscato (California) and Blackberry Pie

This dinner and wine pairing for me was about classic basic things that I would have for dinner normally, nothing overly speacial and tyring to figure out what would pair best.








2014 Beringer Chenin Blanc and Sweet Corn 

The wine was a nose of kind of tart and citrus. Slight flowering nose with limes and pears. It had a moscato taste and feel. It was tart and syrupy With pears, apricot and hints of lime. There was a little oaky tendency but not overpowering. It was slightly sweet. It was smooth and blended nicely with the sweet corn. The corn brought out the pear orchard bark taste. It was fruity but a little too alcoholic however the corn cut that alcohol which was nice .

2013 Ruffino Chianti and Marinara and Chicken pasta. 
The wine had a nose of berries, almost blueberry pie, slight buttery and fruity. Definitely cooked berries though. It had a licouric or scone taste with cherries. The taste was kind of bleh, there really was not any berries on the taste unlike the nose. It was alcoholic and not appealing to taste.
The pasta didn't help or hurt it. The wine was too alcholic and the sauce did not cut it. Maybe a more creamier sauce would have been better. I just didn't like the Chianti which may be the whole reason it was not a good pairing or good anything.

2013 Menage a Trias Moscato and Blackberry Pie 
The smell was not a lot going on, very light with hints of apricot. It was very floral, almost all flowers and then very syrupy smell. The taste was very apricoty but really sweet. It was too flowerly as well for me. The tart blackberry pie took out some of the sweetness which I liked and it became more citrus with the pie. The buttery/tart pie also took away the floral tones. The wine definitely needed the tart/not sweet pie though. We decided California Moscato seems too sweet and prefer Italian.