Posted on August 13, 2010 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in a Wines of Chile online tasting. In what might have been my favorite wines of Chile tasting yet, a box of Sauvignon Blanc arrived at my doors. What a way to my heart, I love Sauvignon Blanc all the time, but especially [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2010 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample in order to participate in a Taste Live event. I guess it must have been about a month ago (yikes, I’m a little behind here…) I joined my fellow winos for a Taste Live event exploring Nautilus Wines from Marlborough. Color me excited, I love wine from [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2010 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for Wines of Chile. Yum, yum, yum. A couple weeks ago a giant box of Sauvignon Blanc from Chile arrived on my doorstep. Lucky me! These wines were intended for me to participate in the Wines of Chile Online Tasting event where we [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2010 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Quivira Winery. Though I am a member of their wine club as well. Quite some time ago I wrote about the Quivira Sauvignon Blanc Complete, which is their barrel aged Sauvignon Blanc. I commented that while it also had its merits, I preferred the other, non-oaked [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2010 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Roberts Fine Wines. I really ought to drink more wines from outside California. California wines are really my first love, so I truly drink more of them than anything else. I am trying to branch out a bit. I just ordered a half case of wines [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2009 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Rodney Strong. Recently I’ve been coming up with bargain wines that I would peg as retailing for more than they do. I love these wines…I’m happily impressed when I finally look up price points and feel like if someone bought the bottle it would offer a [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: The owner of Branford Wine and Spirits gave this wine to my dad for me to try. I’m not sure that even counts as a sample but whatever, here’s the disclosure. Jay of Branford Wine & Spirits must have been reading my mind when he picked out this bottle to give to my dad [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2009 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Sean Minor Wines. The UPS and Fed Ex trucks come to my door with alarming regularity. Almost always it’s a surprise as to what they will be bringing. I personally order anywhere from 20-30 shipments of wine a year myself….but during the fall and the spring, [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sonadora
*Disclaimer: I received this as a sample from Bin Ends Wine in order to participate in the Wines of Argentina Twitter Taste Live. Only a short break from the Argentinian wines! Besides this bottle, I have at least 4 more wines from Argentina to tell you about….in time! Then we move on to the Wines [...]
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Posted on September 10, 2009 by Sonadora
Some wines I tasted at dinner/the Grand Sonoma tasting at the Wine Blogger Conference this summer. I thought it worth telling you about them since I took the time to take notes and many are worth your time to hunt down! Sadly, I didn’t get to taste very many wines at the Sonoma Grand Tasting. [...]
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