Posts Tagged ‘review tasting notes’

Bargain Wine Part 1 - 2007 Hogue Late Harvest Riesling

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

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 [...]

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Ponzi Vineyards 2007 Arneis

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Arneis is a grape that I was completely unfamiliar with until this single varietal from the Willamette Valley showed up on my doorstop courtesy of one of my favorite wine clubs.
Arneis means “little rascal” in the Northern Italian dialect of Piedmontese, and gets its name due to having a reputation as being hard to grow. [...]

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Séguret Côtes du Rhône Villages 2001

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

For my money, Côtes du Rhône wines are some of the best values going. The better ones can deliver almost everything their much more expensive cousins do. The problem is that there are quite a few that do not deliver much of anything. The trick is in finding the really good ones. While I [...]

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