*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong.
A huge wine in this bottle. And a correspondingly large price tag. The 2006 Rodney Strong Symmetry, a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, 8% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petite Verdot is a Meritage style wine with a real cork closure and [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Kendall Jackson Wines.
Sometimes I taste a wine that I think has a lot of merit and I’d give a good recommendation. Often times I taste one of those wines and wish it were just a few dollars cheaper. While this is still a solid buy, especially [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong.
Wine drinkers often speak about an under $20 Pinot Noir that’s worth drinking, but rarely find one. Pinot is, many times, more expensive than folks are willing to spend a wine for a Tuesday or Thursday night. You often have to spend well over $20 [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Luna Vineyards
As much as I keep willing it to be spring (and my daffodils, irises, and lilies think it’s spring as they started popping up a few weeks ago only to be covered by 3+ feet of snow), I need to face facts. That damn groundhog [...]
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We buy a lot of wine. No lie. I belong to 8 wine clubs. I buy wine regularly from local merchants and from internet sources as well as on our visits to local vineyards and our trips to Napa/Sonoma. In any given year I easily buy 20+ cases of wine which even if we were [...]
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My annual spring trip to the Sonoma/Napa area!
We’ll be in town the week after Easter.
I’ve got a few things on my list of must sees for this trip, but have a lot of time open over 5 days for suggestions.
So tell me your favorite things to do and see, both wine related and not…we do [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Cornerstone Cellars.
A few years ago I was bored at work and roaming around the 3 pages on the internet I can actually get to. Back in the day, I had a job where no one talked to me for months on end and never gave me [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong.
I’m not a huge Chardonnay person. When I do like them, I tend to pick out the unoaked, stainless steel fermented ones. I’ve had just one to many chewing on a bunch of toothpicks covered in a stick of butter experiences to not be wary [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Quivira Winery.
The Dry Creek Valley that is. Whenever I open a wine from one of the wineries we visited on our honeymoon, it makes me very happy. Especially when that wine is consistently one I love. Quivira has been one of my [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Big House Wines.
I already used the pun “In the Big House”……and I thought cutesy labels needed cutesy post titles. Not sure I got there this time, but hey, I tried. My first experience with the Big House Wines was the Red a couple weeks ago. I [...]
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