Especially after a long hot horseback ride in the Tennessee Mountains! On our recent vacation, this bottle met my criteria of being low alcohol and supposedly having a cork I could remove without a corkscrew. Well, that last bit was TOTALLY wrong, but the rest worked out! I removed the foil from the bottle only [...]
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I admit it. As much as I like the idea of Cellartracker, I’m far too lazy to update it every time wine arrives at my house. Really, I would have to update it several times a week at the rate wine shows up here. As a result, I often end up with mystery wine, wine [...]
I only own one decanter. I know that seems a bit strange since we drink so much wine, but that’s it, just one. And it happened to be dirty on the night of the last Twitter Taste Live, which was too bad, since this wine really needed a decanter. Or about 10 years in the [...]
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WBW crept up on me again this month. It has a nasty of doing that these days…especially in short months like February. Our host this month is David of McDuff’s Food and Wine Trail. David set us to what seemed like an easy task at the time, drinking any wine, white, red, or otherwise from [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Colangelo & Partners Public Relations I received the 2007 Celebrate Life Merlot from the Fantinel Family Wine Company in Friuli, Italy and decided it would be a great addition to my series on wineries doing charitable works with profits from their wine. This particular bottle retails [...]
I must say, Italian Pinot Noir took me by surprise. I must not be up on things because I didn’t really even realize that Pinot Noir is grown in Italy! Jay of Branford Wine and Spirits in Connecticut gave me this bottle to try when I stopped in to pick up some wine over July [...]
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When I went to visit my parents over July 4th, we stopped in at Branford Wine and Spirits. Jay, the owner, was asking me what kinds of Italian reds I like, and I mentioned how much I had enjoyed several bottles of Negroamara last winter. He pulled out this bottle and sent it home with [...]
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The wine for the evening was a 2007 Albino Armani Pinot Grigio. I picked this wine up at Total Wine and More, even though it was more than my $10 limit when I’m there. However, I tasted it while there and figured I’d bring a bottle home. The bottle clocked in at 12.5% alcohol by [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this bottle of wine as part of a blogger trial of Bottlenotes. The bottle was a 2006 Catello Banfi Le Rime Chardonnay-Pinot Grigio. I can’t say I have ever seen such a mix before, but I was intrigued and couldn’t wait to try it. In fact, delinquent blogger that I am, I [...]
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