It hasn’t taken us long to jump into the wines we purchased on our most recent CA trip. I’ll attribute this at least partially to the fact that prior to the trip I had maybe 4 bottles of Rosé and 10 bottles of white wine left in the basement. We brought home about a case [...]
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Two years ago, we were the first ever (literally, the first) visitors to Mounts Family Winery. We had made an appointment that day for first thing at Michel Schlumberger, a close neighbor of the Mounts’ property. We finished up there and were heading down the road with no particular agenda, only to see some balloons [...]
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As the hostess of this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday, I decided it was high time I pulled out all the stops for a WBW. With that in mind, Matt and I decided to host a blind tasting of Petite Sirah in honor of WBW. We invited several of our friends over for the evening promising [...]
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As the hostess of this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday, I decided it was high time I pulled out all the stops for a WBW. With that in mind, Matt and I decided to host a blind tasting of Petite Sirah in honor of WBW. We invited several of our friends over for the evening promising [...]
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That whole week without the internet in New Orleans and the fact that the house has become a time (and money) suck is really throwing off my rhythm over here. The wine was a 2005 Mounts Family Winery Cabernet Sauvignon. It cost us $26 at the winery and had a real cork closure. The website [...]
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Although I had planned where we wanted to stop, sometimes you just have to explore new things. I tend to think you run across great finds that way, as was the case here. As the title implies, I almost don’t want to share this find because it was SO good. The outside doesn’t look like [...]
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