Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
As you may know, I love Chianti. The first wine I fell in love with, the Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva 2001, was a Chianti, and I even tried it out of a blue plastic cup. When a wine tastes good coming out of a blue plastic cup, you know you ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
On a recent trip to Santa Barbara for a three winery wine tasting, I stopped by the Firestone vineyard. At the end of the visit, after ten or so tastes, I was able to try the star of the lot, the Firestone Riesling. And I wasn't disappointed. Katie bought a ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
In the Fall 2006 issue of The Quarterly Review of Wines, the red wine of the quarter is a Spanish wine, the Legaris Crianza 2003. It looks like BevMo doesn't carry this wine, and Heritage doesn't seem to carry it either. To their credit, the people at Heritage said they ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
I have been horribly delinquent in writing up my short review of the Red Bicyclette Chardonnay 2004. I bought two bottles of this wine at Bevmo's most recent 5 cent sale. I thus bought one bottle at full price (nominally $10 or so) and got the second bottle for 5 ...
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