*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rued Winery. This is actually the second time I’ve had the chance to taste the wines from Rued (pronounced Rue-ed) Winery. In 2008 they made an appearance at the DC International Wine and Food Festival and I stopped by the table then, as they are located [...]
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I dug deep into my cellar for tonight’s wine. We haven’t been drinking much Zinfandel lately as I noted last week, but I’ve been craving it and I have a ton of bottles gathering dust in my basement. Plus, the weather is FINALLY showing signs of warming up, so my tastes will soon change from [...]
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Our host for the April edition of WBW will be the Cork Dork. He’s chosen the theme of Kosher Wines in honor of Passover. So basically, go pick any Kosher Wine and report back on April 15. You can read all the details here. This might be a tough one for me. I’ve not noticed [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. I usually pretty up my tasting notes for you. Mainly because they often contain lines such “OMG, yum.” or “The H [meaning Matt] likes.” Today I’ve decided to leave in one such note, which is “Smells like Crayola.” I [...]
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A few weeks back, I started noticing that Michael Wangbickler of Caveman Wines had posted several profiles of various wine blogs. I liked the idea a lot and had previously been considering starting to spotlight some of the wine blogs that populate my Blog Roll in the right hand column. Doing so popped into my [...]
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At the DC International Wine and Food Festival, I made sure to stop by the New Zealand Wine Growers table. I had the chance to free style taste some of their selections at the Wine Blogger Conference, but I only made it through a few there as my palate was just plain tuckered out by [...]
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Check out Wine Case for the round up of WBW #55 which Remy recently posted. About 33 wine bloggers participated and took some interesting perspectives on North vs. South. Head on over and see all the details. Stay tuned for next month’s theme…I hear it involves Kosher wines! The European Wine Blogger Conference has been [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Well, the first day of spring passed and it’s still really cold. Spring my rear end…it’s still 40 out! I’m hoping that when we get back from Sonoma it will be nice and warm and I will be justified [...]
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Except maybe if I can tenuously make some connection between organic farming and conservation and save the planet and all that jazz. But I wanted to share anyway because I just think this is SO COOL. A couple weeks ago, on our drive to work, which takes us along a lengthy stretch of the Potomac [...]
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Have I mentioned before how much I love the wines from Coral Mustang? I think I have, , but just in case, I’ll say it again…I love these wines!!! The Rose is amazing and the Tempranillo is divine. Tonight I chose the 2004 Coral Mustang Tempranillo to sip with my lamb and mashed taters. It [...]
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