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Here’s an inexpensive, widely-available wine that hits the sweet spot for my palate: It’s worth noting that I found the 2006 a few weeks after tasting this 2007 and didn’t like it nearly as much. Look for the 2007. _________ Image credit: Illuminaut via Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/illuminaut/3996050349 An offering to the SEO gods: PLANETA La Segreta [...] October 27th, 2011 | Tags: badassitude, Cabernet Franc, Italy, Merlot, Nero D'Avola, Sicilia, Syrah | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Tasting Notes | 
Leave a comment.This is the first post of a new series I’m starting on oddball wines. I thought I’d start in Italy, which is full of indigenous grape varieties that are produced in a small region and hardly anywhere else. This is one of those: Lagrein. Have you ever had one? Ever heard of it? La Vis [...] November 15th, 2009 | Tags: 2007, Italy, Lagrein, Trentino | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Tasting Notes |
5 comments. Add yours.The theme of this month’s Wine Blogging Wednesday #62 (hosted by Dale Cruse at Drinks Are On Me) is “A Grape By Any Other Name”. The idea is to taste a wine labeled with a lesser known name of an otherwise common grape. Now this is the sort of thing that I’d normally stew [...] October 14th, 2009 | Tags: 2006, Cannonau, Grenache, Isola dei Nuraghi, Italy, Sardinia | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Tasting Notes |
6 comments. Add yours.Picked this up on a whim at the grocery store for a spaghetti and meat sauce dinner. Producer: Rocca delle Macie (pronounced ROH-kah DELL-eh mah-CHEE-ah) Grapes: 95% Sangiovese, 5% Merlot Appellation: Sangiovese di Toscana (IGT) Vineyards: estate vineyards Aging: unknown Alcohol: 13% Price: $13 My tasting notes: The first whiff bursts with juicy cherry aromas [...] July 26th, 2009 | Tags: 2007, Italy, Merlot, Sangiovese, Sangiovese di Toscana | Category: Price: 11-15 bucks, Tasting Notes |
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