*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports I love this wine. Love it. I have purchased it many many many times for myself and recommend it frequently to anyone looking for a moderately priced sparkling wine. I’m fairly certain I’ve written about it before, but it bears another mention, just in [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Many times I get wines pitched to me for various events. Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving…pretty much any random holiday that pops up on the calendar. Even Groundhog Day. I’m not really one who works on any particular piece. My tasting method of wines [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman Imports. A Rose by any other name…Well, it’s finally the time of year here for lighter wines, including Roses! Excellent. I love the spring, which appears to be getting cut extremely short here this year since we were so late starting. The other night [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample to participate in a Twitter Taste Live event. Yikes. So I’m a tad behind in putting up my reviews these days. I’m trying to get back on track now that my baby is occasionally taking a nap and put up more than one post a week. (Newborns [...]
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Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Strike that. This wine is not a typical GSM blend. It’s missing the M, the Mourvedre. The 2007 Paul Jaboulet Aine Parallele 45 from the Cotes du Rhone is 60% Grenache and 40% Syrah. It had a real cork closure, clocked in at 14% [...]
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*This wine was sent to me as a sample from Pasternak Imports. It’s red wine season in my house. Finally. The weather teased me for a while, but it appears the cold is here to stay. I love wood-burning fire season, leaves crunching under my feet, and the smell of fall. Fall has a distinct [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the importer. A few weeks ago, the folks at Pasternak Imports sent me a box of Sancerre to try for the summer months. Since the summer keeps going and going and going in DC, we’ve been enjoying them and will continue to do so in the [...]
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports. I’ll get to today’s wine in just a minute. First, a little story. I bought my very first bottle of wine in 1998. In Spain. On my Spanish class’ school trip. I knew zero, zip, zilch, about wine other than the fact that adults [...]
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Well, that’s not QUITE true, but it’s the last of the bubbles I have that I haven’t written about. I’ve got some nice Roederer tucked away, but I’ve written about the Roederer before! Not that it will stop me from writing about it again, but I do like to bring you some variety. Spring definitely [...]
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I’m running low on bubbles and it’s too hot to have anymore shipped to my house! I am going to have cast my net far and wide to wine shops I don’t usually visit in the area since I’ve pretty much bled the local collections dry. I wonder what Matt would say to a day [...]
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