First off, this wine is not ready to drink without some serious time sitting out or in a decanter. It was hot and full of alcohol on the nose and I couldn’t get past that through our whole dinner. After the alcohol dissipated, I could find the scent of raisins and spice. In the mouth [...]
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And a soup too….not good for a warm day, but that’s what we had as leftovers tonight. But it balanced out nicely with the rose, though I think soup days are over here. The wine was a 2006 Hanna Jasmine. It came in a club shipment without a price, but it looks like you can [...]
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I know this wine exists. I drank it and I have a picture of it. However, I can find absolutely no mention of it on their website. Very odd. In anycase, it came in a club shipment, cost us $25ish, runs 14.6% alcohol by volume and had a real cork closure. I thought this wine [...]
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I’ve discovered the flaw in hosting a holiday meal when there are only two people who live in the house regularly: leftovers that never end. I did not notice this when I was a kid, for a few reasons. One, my family all lives in the same area of the same state and thus the [...]
