*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR firm for the winery Oh how I love bubbles! I even made my own bubbles with some of my blogger friends in 2009. It was just disgorged and shipped to us recently, I’m excited to tell you about it. Back to the point though. [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample for the PR firm for the winery. On the same night we tried the Chateau Tanunda Riesling we also tried the 2009 Chateau Tanunda Grand Barossa Shiraz. An Australian wine night in our house. It clocks in at 14.5% alcohol by volume, has a real cork closure, [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR company for the winery. I don’t drink much Australian Riesling. Actually, I don’t drink much wine from Australia in general. No particular reason, I should really try to do so more often. Recently we popped open the 2009 Chateau Tanunda Grand Barossa Riesling. We [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. Here in Wannabe Wino world we are making as much use of the waning nice days that we can and continue to grill out almost every night. One of my favorite things to do on the grill is an eye of the round roast, [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery This wine hid in my basement. Which is a total shame since it appears it’s now sold out. However if they decide to make it again, you should go get some. Quickly apparently. I still want to tell you about it though so you [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. Even though I wasn’t making food that went very well with this wine, I was really in the mood for a Pinot. So I plucked the 2009 Sean Minot 4 Bears Carneros Pinot Noir from the basement. It clocked in at 14.5% alcohol by [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. Although our weather is turning a little cooler here, I’m still tossing plenty of white wines into the mix. Even at only 80 today the humidity is a bear. Hunting in the basement I went for the 2010 Napa Cellars [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. I find Torrontes to be a love it or hate it kind of grape. I lean towards loving it, but at times it can have an off-putting “lemon pledge” quality to the nose. Thankfully that was not the case here. We opened up the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. Fall approaches. Not too long ago I was wishing for summer and dreaming of white wines. Now my thoughts are edging back to the red end of the spectrum again and I’m dabbling in some of the reds that have sat, neglected, in my [...]
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