*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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*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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*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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*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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*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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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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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Wine Imports. This wine comes to us from Chile. The estate is called Los Vascos…by Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite). Oh yes, the Lafite. The famous one in France. They lease land in Chile and produce a line of value driven wines. I’ve previously reviewed [...]
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I truly love this wine. I do. You can read my reviews here of the 2004, 2005, and 2006. I also selected the 2006 to put in the blogger pack I developed for Domaine 547. I liked it so much that I devoted 1/4 of the case of wine I get from Mauritson each year [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Bin Ends Wine in order to participate in the Twitter Taste Live. And really, it’s all about the Attitude, right? Here we go again with another start to a great Twitter Taste Live. This time, we tasted through 6 bottles of wine from importer F. Wildman [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received these wines as samples from St. Supery to participate in the St. Supery Twitter Taste Live. Last weekend I participated in the St. Supery Twitter Taste live, where I tasted 4 wines from St. Supery at the same time as other winos across the country and tweeted my notes as I did [...]
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