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Bonny Doon Vineyard’s 2011 Clos de Gilroy is made from grapes not quite right for BDV’s top bottling, Le Cigare Volant (clos but no cigare, as Randall like to say). 83% grenache 7% cinsault 6% syrah 4% mourvèdre from various locales around the Central Coast AVA I love the freshness of [...] April 3rd, 2013 | Tags: Bonny Doon, Grenache, Randall Grahm | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes | 
Leave a comment.With spring just around the corner, my pick for this Mourvèdre Monday is a lovely little Bandol rosé. Bandol, located within Provence, is France’s only wine region where Mourvèdre is the dominant grape. In other words, heaven. I couldn’t find the exact varietal composition of this bottle, but the Bandol AOC regulations require at least 50% [...] March 11th, 2013 | Tags: #MourvedreMonday, Bandol, Mourvèdre, Mourvèdre Monday, Rose, Wines for Spring, Wines for Summer | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.Chilean Pinot Noir is not something I have a lot of experience with, so I was happy to get to taste three side-by-side as a part of the Wines of Chile Terroir Master Class blogger tasting. I’ve previously posted about the three Sauvignon Blancs that were a part of the tasting. And there will be [...] November 24th, 2012 | Tags: Casablanca Valley, Chile, Pinot Noir | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.Recently, I participated in the Wines of Chile blogger tasting Terroir Master Class. Fred Dexheimer led the tasting from Chile while sitting with and chatting up the winemakers. We bloggers followed along via video, twitter and a chat tool. It was great fun. There were 3 wines in each of 4 flights: Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot [...] November 8th, 2012 | Tags: Casa Silva, Casablanca Valley, Chilean wine, Colchagua Valley, Leyda Valley, San Pedro, Sauvignon Blanc, Viña Casablanca | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Price: 16-20 bucks, Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
2 comments. Add yours.I’m always game to try something unusual when it comes to wine. On this blog you’ll see as much Baga as Bordeaux, as much Tannat as Tuscany, and more Mourvèdre than Merlot and Malbec combined. So you know when I had a chance to taste a Tempranillo Blanco, I was all over it. That’s [...] November 16th, 2011 | Tags: Oddball, Spain, Tempranillo Blanco | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.I am long overdue to review these wines from Cleavage Creek, kindly provided as samples by the winery. I had been waiting to do some sort of tie-in with Breast Cancer Awareness Month or something like that (Cleavage Creek donates 10% of gross sales to various breast cancer research organizations.) When I heard the awful [...] June 28th, 2011 | Tags: Merlot, Shiraz, Tracy Hills | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.— Price: I paid $16.81 via Garagiste. — Like a fruit punch popsicle on a stone stick. Vibrating with energy. Meaty. Full. Hot. B June 26th, 2011 | Tags: Grenache, Syrah, Vacqueyras | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.First Mourvèdre Monday in the new format!! Image credit: Alaskan Dude via Flickr I’ve tried 3-4 of the wines in this lineup over the past year or two and this is first one that has really grabbed my attention. Price: around $17 [...] June 20th, 2011 | Tags: Monastrell, Mourvèdre Monday, Yecla | Category: Price: 16-20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
Leave a comment.Way back in October, Wines of Chile held a twitter tasting of red blends from Chile (hashtag: #ChileBlends). I had signed up for the tasting and received the wine, but a family emergency kept me from being able to participate on the night of the event. That also coincided with this blog going into a [...] February 26th, 2011 | Tags: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Carmenere, Casablanca Valley, Chile, Colchagua Valley, Maule Valley, Merlot, Mourvèdre, Petit Verdot, Pinot Noir, Syrah | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Price: 16-20 bucks, Price: Over 20 bucks, Tasting Notes |
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It Tastes Good, But I Don’t Like It
Have you head of the new “Locations” project from Dave Phinney (of Orin Swift)? I hadn’t until recently. He’s sourcing the wine from sites across France and blending them together:
2011 is the first vintage of our French red wine sourced from some of the finest locations throughout France. Grenache from the Roussillon, Syrah from [...]