*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Sorry for the radio silence! Christmas and my daughter’s first birthday being within 3 days of each other left me with little time to write. Though plenty of occasions to raise a glass of bubbly and toast, which is what we did with the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. Thursday of last week was the annual arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau from France. That is really not my thing, so I celebrated by drinking French wine, but not Beaujolais Nouveau. The holidays tend to make people think of sparkling [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman Imports Tonight’s wine was the 2009 Hugel Riesling. It had a Diam closure, clocked in at 12% alcohol by volume, and retails for somewhere between $15-$19. Four takeaways from this wine: 1.) You can always count on Hugel to be a good bet for [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine in order to participate in a Taste Live event. It’s a miracle! With this post I am caught up on all wines that I tasted in 2010! I’m close to being caught up with the first half of 2011 as well, since I kept up better with those. Within the [...]
*Disclaimer: I received this wine in order to participate in a Taste Live tasting. I had the opportunity to participate in another Beaujolais tasting this winter, as part of a series held through the Taste Live site to explore the wines of Beaujolais outside of Beaujolais Nouveau. Sadly, 2 of my wines for this particular [...]
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in a Taste Live event. I feel like the little engine that could. I am so close to being caught up on old posts that I can almost taste it. Everyone at my house is looking at me because I’ve been sitting here [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample to participate in a Taste Live event I’m almost embarrassed to admit how little experience I have with French wines. But it’s true. I fell in love with California wine and while I make forays into other areas (see my affairs with Gruner Veltliner and sparkling wines [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample to participate in a Taste Live event Most of my old tasting notes have been from the live tastings I’ve participated in. I find it very difficult to enter my thoughts into Twitter, respond to my fellow tasters, ask questions of the wine makers AND type notes [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample to participate in a Twitter Taste Live Event Oops. Here’s another set of long lost posts from a Twitter Event I participated in last September I think. A few set of posts from those types of tastings fell through the cracks for me last summer/fall as I [...]
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports Here’s another bubbly favorite of mine. It’s as if Pasternak Imports packed up all my favorite NV bubbles into a box and shipped them to me. That’s the best kind of box to open up! This is another Lucien Albrecht bubbly, this time the [...]
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