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Mourvedre Monday #26 (Tetra-Pak Edition): Y+B Monastrell

Welcome to the first tetra-pak edition of #MourvedreMonday. Yellow+Blue (Y+B) sells wine from organically grown grapes in environmentally-friendly 1-liter tetra-paks. (Yellow + Blue = Green. Get it?) They source wine from a number of locales, including Malbec and Torrontes from Argentina, Sauvignon Blanc from Chile, and this Monastrell from Spain. This is the first varietally-labeled [...]

Brancott B Sauvignon Blanc 2008

This wine is from Brancott’s “Letter Series” – their upper tier range of wines. Price: around $25

This wine was provided as a sample for review by the winery’s PR agency.

Cleavage Creek Trio

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 [...]

Vacqueyras-on-a-Stick

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Price: I paid $16.81 via Garagiste.

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Like a fruit punch popsicle on a stone stick. Vibrating with energy. Meaty. Full. Hot. B

Mourvèdre Monday #25: M5 Monastrell 2009 Yecla

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

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Finca el Origen Malbec Reserva 2008

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The photo above is of the BBQ pit at Smitty’s in Lockhart, Texas, one of my absolute favorite BBQ joints. This fire sits practically in the middle of the hallway as you enter and the smell in this little room is heavenly. Put this place on your bucket list.

Image credit: jstorer via Flickr

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M. Chapoutier Domaine de Bila-Haut ‘Occultum Lapidem’ 2007

Price: Around $25

Image link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dobrych/4552132976/

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I’m experimenting with this new review format. I thought it would be cool to take the free association image I would typically insert in a post and give it more impact by making it the primary feature, with the text for bottle info (just the basics) and my [...]

Wine Guerrilla Forchini Vineyard DCV Zin 2008

“Rising from the Sonoma terroir like the weathered fists of century-old men, these 100+ year old vines have seen history.” [from the winery's website]

Producer: Wine Guerrilla

Grapes: A field blend (yay!) of around 95% Zin and the rest a mix of Carignan, Petite Sirah, Alicante Bouchet.

Appellation: Dry Creek Valley (AVA, California)

Vineyard: Forchini [...]

#ChileBlends Tasting

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 [...]

Bonny Doon Syrah “Le Pousseur” 2007

I’ll admit to having a geekcrush on Randall Grahm, president-for-life of Bonny Doon Vineyard. So take my opinion on his wines with a grain of salt. You can geekcrush on him, too, here and here and here and here and here.

FYI: “Le Pousseur” translates to “the pusher”.

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Producer: Bonny Doon Vineyard

Grapes: [...]

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