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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 18, 2024
2020 Monteabellon ’14 Mesas’ Tempranillo (Ribera del Duero): Dark! Lots of cherry, tobacco, wood spices, dried herbs, cinnamon, vanilla bean, big structure… but good acids! $39 A- 2011 Principe de Viana Tinto Reserva (Navarra): This one is ALLLL about the smoked meat course now. $NA B+ 2020 Fattoria La Massa…
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What We Drank: V-Day 2024
When you’ve got a toddler, date nights don’t come easy. Come to think of it,m when you’ve got a toddler, most things don’t come easy. Not that we don’t love the irrepressible little tyke, but some alone adult time helps recharge the parenting batteries, right? Last month for Valentine’s Day,…
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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for March 11, 2024
I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the…
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A Carménère Reckoning: Revisiting Chile’s Rowdy, Oft-Reviled Red
“Love child, love child, never quite as goodAfraid, ashamed, misunderstood” – The Supremes Carménère gets a bad rap. Particularly in my house, since my girlfriend despises pyrazine notes in her reds. For that alone, Chilean red wines are practically banned at our dining table (and here you thought that she…
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