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• Weekly Wine Wrap-Up

  Published: July 24, 2007, 9:36 am

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  the interest of getting more tasting notes onto the site, I plan to do weekly roundups of the wine/beer I drank in the previous few days. None of these are samples, but in the future I'll mark those with a *. 2005 Bodegas Val de Sil Godello, Valdeoras, Spain - A modest and mellow white, rich with stone fruit flavors and garnished with anise and

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• Weekly Wine Wrap-Up

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:04 pm

  Tags: Beer Beer Beer, Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  beer, though dark caramel notes emerge as you enjoy the creamy mouthfeel and slight bitterness. Serve this alongside quail stuffed with figs. $10 (750ml) 2004 Herri Mina Irouléguy Blanc, France - This weighty Basque wine, made from the Gros Manseng grape, has nose-prickling petrol and pine scents and a mouthwatering acidity. (ordered

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• Weekly Wine Wrap-Up

  Published: August 27, 2007, 9:23 pm

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  smattering of wine and beer notes from the last week or so. * denotes a sample. Remember there’s still time to sign up for my 8-week UC Berkeley Extension Wine Studies class: Fundamentals I. * 2005 Riboli Family Vineyard “San Simeon” Pinot Noir, Monterey, $18This lightweight Central Coast Pinot has a rare-for-California wild,

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• Weekly Wine Wrap-Up

  Published: September 9, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  Call this a two-week weekly wine wrap-up: I never got up last week’s. Samples are marked with an *. * 2004 McWilliams Hanwood Estate Merlot, Southeastern Australia - ~$9 One-dimensional jammy fruit and a raisiny character make for a decent but not memorable wine. Light tannins and a refreshing acidity make it food friendly, but there are

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• Recent Drinks Of Note

  Published: October 6, 2007, 11:19 pm

  Tags: Beer Beer Beer, Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  to change my “Weekly Wine Wrap-up” into a more irregular “Recent Drinks Of Note” with fewer items. The items left won’t all be good: If I’ve tasted a particularly unpleasant wine, I may mention it to steer you away. As always, samples are marked with a * SparklingI didn’t write tasting notes for the

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• Recent Drinks Of Note

  Published: December 6, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  Mendocino, California This wine divides my loyalties: I want to encourage you to support biodynamic wineries, where the grapes are raised in a holistic fashion. But biodynamic farming is more laborious than industrial farming, thus adding expense to the wine. Can I encourage you to pay $18 for this wine, which is at heart a straightforward

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• 2004 Parducci "True Grit" Petite Sirah, Mendocino, California

  Published: December 12, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  read many other food and wine blogs, you may have forgotten about Wine Blogging Wednesday, the monthly, Internet-wide tasting event. I typically forget about the event until I see everyone else’s posts, at which point it’s too late for me to join in. But this month, one of the wines I drank lined up with Sonadora’s

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• 2006 Movia "Gredic", Brda, Slovenia

  Published: January 17, 2008, 1:58 am

  Tags: Wine Wine Wine, Wine Tasting Note

  the new moon to clarify his wines. He leaves some of his whites in Slovenian oak barrels and on their lees, the dead yeast cells that drop from the wine during fermentation, for 2 years. He ages his reds for 3 to 7 years. Clearly, Ales flouts modern winemaking. But he also makes some killer wines. I have tasted a number of them, either at wine

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