Mr. Wannabe Wino returns with a second installment! Champagne has long been a favorite party drink, no doubt partly due to the theatrical nature of opening a bottle which results in a satisfying – POP! fizzle. (Plinking an in-law with a cork from all the way across the room is only an added bonus…) Originally [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Sorry for the radio silence! Christmas and my daughter’s first birthday being within 3 days of each other left me with little time to write. Though plenty of occasions to raise a glass of bubbly and toast, which is what we did with the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Natural Wine Merchants. I have been all about the bubbles in the last couple of weeks. It must be the holidays. Picture me singing, totally off-key because I’m pretty tone deaf: “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. .” Yes indeed, I have the holidays [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR folks for the brand. Thursday of last week was the annual arrival of the Beaujolais Nouveau from France. That is really not my thing, so I celebrated by drinking French wine, but not Beaujolais Nouveau. The holidays tend to make people think of sparkling [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from the PR firm for the winery Oh how I love bubbles! I even made my own bubbles with some of my blogger friends in 2009. It was just disgorged and shipped to us recently, I’m excited to tell you about it. Back to the point though. [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports Here’s another bubbly favorite of mine. It’s as if Pasternak Imports packed up all my favorite NV bubbles into a box and shipped them to me. That’s the best kind of box to open up! This is another Lucien Albrecht bubbly, this time the [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports I love this wine. Love it. I have purchased it many many many times for myself and recommend it frequently to anyone looking for a moderately priced sparkling wine. I’m fairly certain I’ve written about it before, but it bears another mention, just in [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from Pasternak Imports Bubbles! We all know how much I love bubbles. In 2010 (or was it 2009? My years are starting to blend together…) I made it a goal to drink more bubbles. I did pretty well with that goal and as a result we’ve incorporated [...]
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*Disclaimer: I received this wine as a sample from F. Wildman. Many times I get wines pitched to me for various events. Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving…pretty much any random holiday that pops up on the calendar. Even Groundhog Day. I’m not really one who works on any particular piece. My tasting method of wines [...]
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I’ve been utterly in love with the Roederer Estate L’Ermitage Brut. If you’re a long time reader of the blog, you’ve probably heard me gush over the vintage years of this bubbly in the past. We first visited Roederer Estate back in 2006, on a tip from the owner of the Vintage Towers, our favorite [...]
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