Continuing on the theme of big winter reds, we dug deep into the cellar for this gem. In 2009 I, along with a bunch of other bloggers, invaded Calaveras County, specifically the town of Murphys, CA. One of our stops on that trip was Newsome Harlow, a favorite of mine from my first visit to [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong. Although our weather is still oddly behaving as if it’s spring rather than winter, I’m getting in the big red wines while I still am in the winter mindset! We have had a few random colds days here and there, and that’s when we [...]
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A few weeks ago I took part in many Taste Live events surrounding the Napa Valley Film Fest. Over the course of 4 days I tasted a ton of great wines from Napa helping to celebrate the Film Fest from afar. I’ll always take a good excuse to drink in the middle of the day! [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. On a cold, blustery night, with a fire roaring in the wood stove, what could be better to cap off the evening than a glass of port? Not much. With daylight savings in full effect, the nights are long and [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the winery. Clif Family Winery is brought to you by the same folks who make Clif bars. Now, I must admit that I can be a bit skeptical of branching out from one product line to something completely different, but the Clif [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Cornerstone Cellars We actually got some snow the other day/night in VA. In October. That is pretty much unheard of for this area of the country. The snow turned my thoughts to the big red wines that have been patiently waiting in my cellar all summer [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. Back to one of my favorite areas to get Pinot Noir from, the Russian River Valley. The Russian River Valley is where I fell for Pinot Noir, hard. Now, I love it in many of its incarnations, however, time and again I come back [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Told you I found some lost tasting notes! I think this 2009 Ritual Veramonte Pinot Noir was the second wine for the Chilean Tasting. Veramonte is a winery that I have recommended many times in the past, particularly for [...]
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*I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Alas, I was so close to catching up on my older tasting notes. And yet again I failed. I pulled out a notebook to jot down notes for the Carmenere and Curry Chilean Wine Tasting the other night and lo [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the winery. One of the very cool things about running this wine blog is the opportunity it gives me to learn about producers I’m not likely to have otherwise discovered. Here is another one of those instances, where the folks from Ash Hollow Winery in Walla [...]
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