I’m tasting Roses for Thanksgiving this year! Last year at Thanksgiving I made printed wine menus and asked our guests to select from a few bottles for each course. No one seemed terribly interested in it, so this year I will just be setting up the wine myself and I am 99% convinced I am [...]
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Just a short review today, for a not too complicated wine. The wine was a 2002 Loudon Valley Vineyard Red Table Wine. We picked this bottle up at the vineyard for $9, it had a real cork closure, and clocked in at 12% alcohol by volume. The wine was sweet with spices, cloves, cinnamon, and [...]
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And I definitely like Mosaic Chardonnay. We picked this bottle of 2004 Mosaic Chardonnay up at the winery on our first trip to Sonoma. It somehow got lost in the shuffle of multiple moves and reorgs, and thus escaped me until now. I believe the bottle cost us $16 and had a real cork closure. [...]
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Usually on Fridays you just get my weekend round-up, but my reviews are piling up on me and I need to get them posted without overloading the blog with content. So since the round-up is short this week I thought I’d post a review too. The wine was a Marimar 2004 Torres Family Vineyards Don [...]
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Short this week, only two local stores that I am aware of are hosting tastings. Arrowine, Arlington VA: Tonight, 5:30-7:30, Spanish Selections from The Henry Group. Tomorrow, two tastings. 1-4, all wines from October’s Spain special will be on the tasting bar and The Country Vintner will be pouring a selection of Italian wines. Out [...]
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Though I suppose my post about Rose was about the last Rose of summer, I never said I wasn’t going to drink them in the fall…..not to mention it might as well still be summer here with the weather! The bottle was a 2005 Domaine d’Eole from Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence. (Did I read that bottle right [...]
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And no photo either, I think I managed to delete the photo from my camera before uploading it. The wine was a 2004 Loudon Valley Vineyards Vinifera White. We picked this bottle up at the vineyard this summer while meandering around Virginia Wine Country. It cost us $11.70 and Matt tossed the bottle before I [...]
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The wine of the night was a 2001 Yoakim Bridge Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley. The bottle cost us $33 at the vineyard, clocked in at 14.5% alcohol by volume, and had a real cork closure. We visited Yoakim Bridge on our last trip to CA and it was one of our favorite stops. The [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this bottle from WineQ because I am a Beta Club member. It can be purchased from WineQ for $14.99. The wine was a bottle of 2006 Coral Mustang Rose. It’s a Tempranillo Rose (another new one for me, never had a Rose made from Tempranillo grapes) and hails from Vista Creek Vineyards [...]
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Go to Arrowine in Arlington tonight from 5:30-7:30 to taste selections from Roanoake Valley Wine Company, or tomorrow from 1-4 for a double header with Oregon Pinot Noirs from Roanoake Valley Wine Company and selections from Potomac Selections. Tonight at Out of Site Wines in Vienna you will find “Affordable Burgundy and Bordeaux” from 5-8. [...]
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