*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Hall Winery Oh the excellence or Exzellenz of Hall. I wrote about the 2006 Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon a couple months ago. I loved that wine. Well, that’s an understatement….I adored it. Since then, I’ve actually had a chance to visit Hall Winery (both the St. [...]
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We brought some bubbles with us to my parents’ house last week to enjoy as the weather was supposed to be scorching. I’m glad we did…apparently it was the warmest weekend all summer! Thankfully, we had bubbles and a pool…and my parents just put in central air. Of course, I lived there for 19 years [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Sort This Out Cellars. Well, I don’t play cards. And I don’t gamble. But I’d suggest you gamble on this bottle of wine, as it’s a solid bet. Tonight we opened the 2005 Sort This Out Cellars Ante Up Syrah. It had a real cork closure, [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Don Sebastiani and Sons. The Crusher series of wines is one of several labels from Don Sebastiani and Sons. It falls under the Three Loose Screws brand and is intended to be a line of affordable single varietal wines mostly from Clarksburg, CA. I wrote earlier [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Sobon Estate. Several months ago, I connected with Sobon Estate on Twitter. As I’ve mentioned before, if I’m out and about shopping for wine, and I’m looking for new stuff to try, I’m much more likely to choose a wine from a winery I’ve connected with [...]
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Last year Dr. Debs over at Good Wine Under $20 proposed the idea that every month wine bloggers would get together, choose a book on wine, and all read it and review it. Initially I was excited because I have a ton of wine books sitting around. But then reality set in and in all [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR company for Wines of Germany. Searching for an inexpensive, tasty, easy to drink Riesling to add to your everyday wine line up? Look no further, I’ve found it for you! Although I wouldn’t spend a lot of time contemplating this wine, if you were [...]
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The final request for wineries to taste while we were in Murphys for the pre-Wine Blogger Conference came, surprisingly, not from me. And it’s not a winery I was at all familiar with! Liza and Thea had visited Renner on a trip up to Calaveras earlier this year. They both wanted to taste the wines [...]
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This wine feels like an old friend. Whenever it comes around I’m delighted to see it and I’m sad when it’s gone. I wonder when I’ll see it again. The 1999 Roederer Estate L’Ermitage Brut is way out of our normal price range,we paid $60 at the winery for this bottle, so we don’t drink [...]
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As I played around with my blog this weekend, I got to thinking about how much wine I taste and/or drink every year. Before I started the wine blog, I would have categorized myself as a casual wine drinker. I would mostly split a bottle with Matt on Friday or Saturday nights or if we [...]
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