Now this is something I’m excited to see and I think it’s a great idea! I got an email today (to my personal email, not to the blog as a press release) from Seghesio Vineyards. Now, I’ve long been a fan of Seghesio and have visited several times so I signed up ages ago for [...]
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*Disclaimer: I got this out of a box of wines from Hahn Family Cellars when I went to the Wine Blogger Conference this summer. We all know I sort of love Petite Sirah. A lot. After Zinfandel, it was the second kind of red wine that made me stand up and say “yum.” I dig [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in a Taste Live Event. Back in the fall, a reality show aired on tv where folks competed to be winemakers. Naturally it was was The Winemakers. At the completion of the show and to coincide with an airing on tv, we did [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Mondavi. I don’t do a lot of blind tasting. However, I’m trying to do a bit more, if for nothing else other than to test my guessing skills. I made Matt go get something from the basement and he handed me a [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. This past fall the Wines of Chile organization hosted an online Carmenere tasting. Unfortunately, I was just coming off a long illness and wasn’t quite up to tasting through all 12 wines that night. Actually, I only made it [...]
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As you probably well know by now, bubbles are my thing this year. I’m quite happy with the goal I set to drink more bubbly….it’s only March and I’ve had more sparkling wine already than I usually do in an entire year. It’s also been a good way for me to break out of my [...]
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I read a lot of wine blogs. I have over 1,000 in my feedreader. Every single day I go through the new posts on all of them. Once every couple of months I do a widespread search to look for new wine blogs. Why? Because I like to read about wine and I like to [...]
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I put out the call to my friend Jill at Domaine547LA to help me with my “drink more sparkling wine” goal this year. Ever accommodating to the fact that I utterly refuse to use her website to order wine, she came back with recommendations for about a dozens bottles of sparkling, and of course some [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine so I could participate in the Patz and Hall Twitter Taste Live Event. I took a couple months off from the Twitter Taste Lives as life itself got pretty hectic and I wasn’t able to commit to being home at any given hour of the day to participate. I’m happy [...]
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Although I’d not previously had this vintage, drinking the L’Ermitage from Roederer Estate is like visiting with an old friend. My absolute favorite has been the 1999 L’Ermitage Brut, as you could probably tell given that I’ve reviewed it many times here. Sadly, I am having more and more trouble finding it! Never fear though, [...]
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