It's been very long since I updated this blog due to transition from the college graduate became a white collar worker it really consumed me day and night and it's very tiring hence I had not enough time to relax and very seldom enjoying wine on my own, also because I moved to Indonesia not in Singapore anymore where wine is relatively new and not so well known as a cultural drink like in Singapore.

So I am still collecting wines but wine in Indonesia is not as good quality as the Singaporean imported due to heavy tax and too much custom troubles here. However due to recent years where people in Indonesia especially the riches and the socialites knew and thought that drinking wine is a cool social act so drinking wine is booming. Bali is a well know paradise among the world travelers who want to relax and enjoying holiday but due to the recent "drinking wine" booming culture Bali has became one of the most sought destination to cultivate wine. Mostly Indonesian prefers sweet wine since the habit of the people is always drinking sweet whether it's for tea/coffee, they also have tradition to break fasting with sweet dates, drinking sweet tea, eating sweet dessert before eating real dinner. So winemaker in Bali are in competitive mood making sweet-wine, so far I found out there are 2 winemaker "Amore" and "Sababay" the later is a new one while the former is already in the wine business years ago but their sweet wine tastes sucks (no offense Amore). 

Here I'm going to review Sababay wine "Ludisia" which unfortunately I don't know the variety of the grape since it's not written on the label. Actually it's quite hard making sweet wine in a tropical country like Indonesia, Indonesia only has 2 seasons in a year summer and rainy so the wine that produced will be hard tastes sweet. 

I got this one (500ml) for free when I bought Moscato D'Bali (IDR 353000/US$ 26) and Ludisia (IDR 290.000/US$ 21.4) from Sababay 750 ml wines in Ranch market, quite a bargain here. When I open the bottle the strong smell of the wine is amuses me because other new brand of wine seldom smell this strong others usually soft even white wine not smell this strong. Spice aroma from the wine is for sure, first palate is nice and sour with no hint of strong sweet taste (unlike sweet Italian wine and sauternes) instead taste of peach follow with dark cherry is nice some peppery hint knocks me in surprise. The amber color of the wine is glowing through the wine glass. 

It has long finish at the end with no hint of bitterness also fulfill in the taste of decent wine for dinner with seafood/chicken meat that's what I'm having for dinner now.

Not bad for sweet wine but it's not sweet so it's acceptably ok.