*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile so that I could participate in the webcast tasting of Chilean wines. Yes, in case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a rash of Chilean wine postings in the last two weeks here on the ‘ol wine blog. Normally I [...]
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I thought I had lost this review, but it turns out my notes had accidentally merged into another draft post I had scheduled. No idea how I managed to do that, but I’ve learned over the last 2.5+ years of blogging that if it can go wrong it does….I once managed to delete my entire [...]
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Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, getting to hope you like me! (With all apologies to Hammerstein…) I promised in 2009 to make getting to know Chilean wines one of my wine goals. And I [...]
Filed under: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chile, Red, Wine | 5 Comments »
Our host for this edition of WBW, the brain-child of Lenn of Lenndevous, is Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV. He chose French Cabernet Franc as theme for this month (ostensibly as a result of his recent trip tasting in France!). You can watch his vlog about the event here, but the jist is pick [...]
Filed under: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, France, Lenndevours, Merlot, WBW | 3 Comments »
I do not care for Cab Franc much, at least the ones I’ve had produced here in the states. They are often thin, acidic, vegetal, and just not good. So it took me by great surprise that I liked this wine, and liked it enough to take a bottle home! The wine was a 2006 [...]
Filed under: Cabernet Franc, Rappahannock Cellars, Red, Virginia Wines | 5 Comments »
One evening at my parents’ house, a lot of wine was consumed in one evening. We had around 10 people at the house and the wine was flowing all evening. I believe this was the second bottle of the evening. We started with a Sauvignon Blanc, but my Aunt didn’t like it and requested a [...]
Filed under: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, France, Merlot, Red, The Winery | 3 Comments »
