I just reviewed this wine a little over four months ago. I normally don’t retaste and rereview wines in such short order, but we drank this one over Christmas while visiting my parents and I perhaps didn’t give it all the attention it deserved. So here it is again, hopefully with a note that’s a [...]
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We were thinking about taking a night off from wine, but as we got settled with a roaring fire and a movie, we changed our minds. Plus, we didn’t want to bring back home any of the wine we dragged up to Connecticut for the holiday! We chose the 2006 Alderbrook Pinot Noir. It had [...]
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Even though the 90 degree weather doesn’t seem to be supporting my theory that it’s actually fall here, I’m still digging the big red wines after a summer of lovely light whites and roses. Do for the evening, I picked a bottle of the 2006 Alderbrook Old Vine Zinfandel. It’s from Dry Creek Valley, clocks [...]
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A cool night here and there still calls for a hearty Zinfandel. Though I fear we have truly left those days behind now, as the AC had to come on last night lest we melt into the chairs or couches in our family room. The wine for the evening was a 2005 Alderbrook Old Barn [...]
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The wine was a 2005 Alderbrook Confluence from Dry Creek Valley. It takes two grapes I really like and combines them in one blend, so what’s not to love? The wine is a blend of 60% Zinfandel and 40% Syrah, it has a real cork closure, weighs in at 14.8% alcohol by volume, and cost [...]
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Sometimes wine just gets lost in my basement. I don’t know how it happens, because I’m fairly vigilant about entering my shipments into CellarTracker as they arrive, but, as you know, the best laid plans…. So that is how it came to be that this bottle of 2004 Alderbrook Chardonnay somehow escaped me. It’s possible [...]
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The wine was a 2005 Alderbrook Old Vine Zinfandel from Dry Creek Valley. It weighed in at 14.5% alcohol by volume, had a real cork closure, and cost $15.50! On the nose of the wine I found jammy dark fruit, blackberries, raspberries, vanilla, and smoke. In the mouth (either I was a little tipsy or [...]
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With our bbq pulled pork, purple mashed potatoes and broccoli, I decided that a big Syrah would be an excellent match to the spicy bbq sauce. I usually prefer a Zinfandel with my bbq, but I don’t have any left in my collection that I haven’t reviewed yet so Syrah it was. The bottle was [...]
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We’ve had some company with us this week, so I decided to make some homemade pizza as a slightly fancier mid-week dinner. And with it, we started out with a bottle of 2004 Alderbrook Carignane. The wine came in a club shipment and didn’t have a price, but the 2003 was $19, so I would [...]
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I garnered immense satisfaction from the Pinot Noir we drank the other night. It was a bottle of 2005 Alderbrook Russian River Valley Pinot Noir and it was absolutely delicious. I have no idea what this cost, it came in the club shipment, but I assume it’s around $30ish given the total cost of the [...]
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