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Santa Filomena Sweet Patero Wine: Okay, just finished drinking this one. Time to review.

The female cashier at the supermarket laughed at me for carrying a huge wicker basket [SEE ATTACHED FILE NUMBER 3] only to buy a single bottle of wine. Not in an ill-mannered way, of course. She did not know I was planning to go to another store after this purchase, to pick some nuts and spices, where the extra carry capacity of my basket would come handy. She's so hot.

This isn't a fancy wine. You often see places selling combos where, by buying a bottle of this wine and a bottle of cheap grapefruit soda, you get a discount [SEE ATTACHED FILE NUMBER 4]. I like discounts, but I do not like soda, so I paid full price. I shall never financially recover from this. It costed 3000 pesos (about 2.1 USD for a bottle of 1.125 liters; for any American reading this, that's about 38 fluid ounces).

This is not only the cheapest wine on this thread so far: it is also the first wine on the list with its own national anthem. Please check attached file number 2 and stand up for the anthem of Santa Filomena.

It is a sweet red wine. It is also a "patero" wine, meaning it was made with feet. It has a relatively low alcohol content, at just 9.8%, with a sugar content of 4.2%. Other reviewers told me to serve this one chill, so I left it in the fridge before serving.

Oh wow, it is indeed very sweet. Very low tannins, very low acidity. It's basically grape juice, but a grape juice of this price point would most likely be over-processed junk. Even if drank pure you forget there's alcohol in this. I could drink the entire bottle as if it were grape juice; of course, once the alcohol settled in, I'd feel it. You barely feel the alcohol in your mouth.

I served this wine along a plate of pork a la pizza (pork with tomato sauce and mozzarella) with an arugula salad (with parmesan and olive oil). The other diners (whom don't know shit about wine) absolutely loved it. I tend to offer wine every time I cook something big, and this one was their favourite so far. It's sweet grape juice without any aggressive taste, what's there not to like (for someone whom doesn't know any better)? Easily my favourite on this list so far. For the price, 10/10

Crotta Moscato: I like muscatel. I always liked muscatel. Nice and sweet. I like to serve it extremely cold as a refreshment during a hot summer day. Very good price point too, at 4 thousand pesos (around 2.8 USD) for 930ml. It's a dessert wine and it's good. I must mention that, prior to this wine, all the other muscatels I tried were lighter-colored, bright blonde; this one, however, is a very dark amber, a dark gold, which is one of the first things that caught my eye. It's a fortified wine, with an alcoholic content of 15.7%

Muscatel is pretty much how I started drinking wine: I stopped drinking soda, but one hot summer day I was craving something cold and slightly sweet.

Very good, would always keep in stock.