*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile Even though the weather refuses to cooperate, I am steadfastly refusing to accept the fact that spring is not here. Though honestly, it’s almost the middle of April and still cold and rainy. I swear I saw frost on [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the Wines of Chile PR folks. And it usually works fairly well, in terms of how I take notes and write up bottles of wine. Whomever opens the wine takes the pictures. Then, I taste with dinner. After dinner, I move over to my little couch [...]
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I don’t know where this wine came from. I’m leaning toward that it must have been a sample from the Wines of Chile folks, but I can’t recall when I did a tasting with them that wasn’t Carmenere or Sauvignon Blanc. Unless this came from the Carmenere tasting, though it’s not a mainly Carmenere based [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the Wines of Chile. I have a bunch of Carmenere in my basement. I was supposed to participate in a Carmenere tasting quite some time ago, but I got sick and was unable to fully participate since my nose and palate were [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in a Wines of Chile online tasting. In what might have been my favorite wines of Chile tasting yet, a box of Sauvignon Blanc arrived at my doors. What a way to my heart, I love Sauvignon Blanc all the time, but especially [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Yum, yum, yum. A couple weeks ago a giant box of Sauvignon Blanc from Chile arrived on my doorstep. Lucky me! These wines were intended for me to participate in the Wines of Chile Online Tasting event where we [...]
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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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I’m making slow but steady strides toward our new goal of tasting 200 different grapes. I think this makes grape 103. It took quite some time to reach 100 grapes, so I imagine it will be at least another 2 full years to make 200, but it should be a fun journey given the relative [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Wines of Chile in order to participate in the online Wines of Chile tasting. The 2nd wine I tasted after almost 3 weeks of no wine! Yay for wine! Don’t you worry, I’m making up for lost time and am back to my regularly scheduled tasting [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in the online Wines of Chile Carmenere Tasting. As you may or may not know from my Twitter feed, I’ve been pretty sick the last few weeks. I hadn’t tasted any wine in weeks, so I was excited that I felt well enough [...]
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