Bargain Wine Part 1 – 2007 Hogue Late Harvest Riesling

This is not a great wine by any means of reckoning, but it costs around 7 bucks a bottle. Besides, who can drink great wine every day? This is a very drinkable wine at an exceptionally low price.

This wine is 100% Riesling and has never seen any oak. As a result it is crisp, sweet and goes down great on a hot Summer evening. It is quite refreshing, and has great big pear and apple flavors all coated in a honey finish.

This is probably not a wine to serve to your snobbiest wine friends, unless of course, you don’t show them the bottle until after they rave about it for a bit. In fact, my wife laughed at me when I bought it after aan in-store tasting. I laughed a week later when she had a glass with dinner and wanted to know which of our wine clubs had sent it.