http://wannabewino.com/2008/11/18/hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi/ A Wino's Journey Mon, 28 May 2012 17:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://wannabewino.com/2008/11/18/hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi/#comment-3609 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:57:12 +0000 http://wannabewino.wordpress.com/?p=1266#comment-3609 [...] Hi Nice to Meet You. Hi Nice to Meet You. Hi… By Sonadora Big and fruit forward. Black and red fruit, tobacco, candied cherry, tannic, red fruit, raspberries, really big fruit. Great value table wine. Yellow Blue Tetra Pak Malbec. 1 liter package retails for $10.99. Organic. From Mendoza. … Wannabe Wino – http://wannabewino.com/ [...]

]]> http://wannabewino.com/2008/11/18/hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi-nice-to-meet-you-hi/#comment-3577 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:52:21 +0000 http://wannabewino.wordpress.com/?p=1266#comment-3577 [...] On Day 1 of the Wine Blogger Conference, if you arrived early enough before the first “official” event, you had the opportunity to head out to Kick Ranch Vineyard for lunch and a tasting. The tasting consisted of 12 wineries who source grapes from Kick Ranch pouring some of their current selections.  I originally thought this would be an event where each winery would pour the Syrah they make from Kick Ranch grapes, for example, but instead, the wineries seemed to be pouring lots of stuff from both Kick Ranch and from other vineyards.  The owners of Kick Ranch provided a delicious lunch for us, which I went straight for, having not eaten a thing but 2 slices of toast when I left Murphys way earlier in the day!  I only managed to taste my way through what 8 of the wineries had to offer, I ran out of time and needed to head back to Santa Rosa in time for the “speed dating” tasting, which I already wrote about here. [...]

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