*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong.
A huge wine in this bottle. And a correspondingly large price tag. The 2006 Rodney Strong Symmetry, a blend of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Malbec, 8% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petite Verdot is a Meritage style wine with a real cork closure and [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong.
Wine drinkers often speak about an under $20 Pinot Noir that’s worth drinking, but rarely find one. Pinot is, many times, more expensive than folks are willing to spend a wine for a Tuesday or Thursday night. You often have to spend well over $20 [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Luna Vineyards
As much as I keep willing it to be spring (and my daffodils, irises, and lilies think it’s spring as they started popping up a few weeks ago only to be covered by 3+ feet of snow), I need to face facts. That damn groundhog [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks representing this brand.
Tonight we pulled the 2006 Campo Viejo Crianza Tempranillo from the racks. It had a real cork closure, clocked in at 13.5% alcohol by volume, and I see it retails for about $9. I served this with leftover lamb pie and [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from L’Ecole.
As some of you may know, this year’s North American Wine Blogger Conference is in Walla Walla, Washington. I’m still working out the details to see if it will be a possibility for me to attend this time, but in the meantime, I’m trying out some [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Cornerstone Cellars.
A few years ago I was bored at work and roaming around the 3 pages on the internet I can actually get to. Back in the day, I had a job where no one talked to me for months on end and never gave me [...]
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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 weeks [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Quivira Winery.
The Dry Creek Valley that is. Whenever I open a wine from one of the wineries we visited on our honeymoon, it makes me very happy. Especially when that wine is consistently one I love. Quivira has been one of my [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman.
Another country whose wines I don’t drink that often. A shame too, there are lots of good, well priced wines coming out of Spain. Not to mention, after I moved on from my early days with Riesling, I went straight for Albariño, in particular the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Milliarium Cellars.
Back in November I wrote about one of the two Pinot Noirs that Milliarium Cellars produces, the Split Rock Vineyard Pinot. In the same shipment I also received a bottle of their other Pinot Noir, the 2007 Milliarium Cellars La Encantada Pinot Noir. These were [...]
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