*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Natural Wine Merchants. I have been all about the bubbles in the last couple of weeks. It must be the holidays. Picture me singing, totally off-key because I’m pretty tone deaf: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. .” Yes indeed, I have the holidays [...]
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2008 Tabarrini Adarmando from Italy. Smells like pear and fresh peach. $17-$22 and available across the US. Smells like very fresh fruit. Totally done in stainless steel. This grape has a lot of heft to it. Nice acidity to counter the heft of the grape. Very peachy with some tropical notes. Very interesting grape and [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR firm for the brand. I got a pitch from a PR person a few months back for a wine for Father’s Day. Now personally, I think the person who you are celebrating should get to choose the wine, but since I happened to be [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports. When I think of sparkling wine from Italy, my mind goes immediately to Prosecco. I’m not actually sure that I’ve had sparkling wine from Italy made from other grapes before this bottle, so I was interested to give it a try. The Valdo Nerello [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Now, this is what I like to see. And Pinot Grigio is often not my thing. But I’ll give credit where credit is due, and I see this wine available on sale online for $7 and a little pocket change. If $7 is your [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports. I couldn’t resist. Pinocchio wine, long nose label. Yep. Cheap jokes, I love them. Several months ago the folks from Pasternak Imports sent a 6 pack of value wines to me and a bunch of other bloggers. However, when I was sick it was [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Gallo Family Wines I don’t drink much Pinot Grigio, if any. I bet I’ve reviewed less than 5 bottles of it since I started the wine blog 3 years ago. I tend to make the association between it and putting ice cubes in your wine to [...]
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This is one of those wines I talked about last week that landed me in boring wine land. Boring wine land seems to me the wino’s equivalent of purgatory—being stuck drinking wines that make you think “meh” instead of making you want to dive into the glass and swim around or at least appreciate the [...]
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We are into the home stretch for our Century Club application! This bottle marks grape 99!! I’ve been monitoring what grapes we’ve been tasting for the last two years or so, but have rarely gone out of my way to pick up lots of new ones, a few here, a few there, and it has [...]
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And we are finally coming into the home stretch for our Century Club application!! Tonight we drank grape number 97, the Cortese grape, from Italy. I really thought we had already tried this one, but as I looked back through my notes, I didn’t see it there. Oh well, I’ve now remedied that. I also [...]
