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d’Arenberg’s Single-Vineyard Shiraz Wines for 2010
Chester Osborn, fourth generation owner and chief winemaker for d’Arenberg, in South Australia’s McLaren Vale, decided that for 2010 he would bottle a separate shiraz wine (and three grenache) from...
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Weekend Wine Notes: Some Robust Reds for Super Bowl Sunday
So, tomorrow’s the Big Day, a Super Bowl with lots of spindly Roman numerals, and manly men and their womanly women with gather in front of giant television screens, as once our distant ancestors...
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50 Great Wines of 2014
Unbate your breath, My Readers, today I present the annual “50 Great Wines” entry, this edition for 2014. I posted to BiggerThanYourHead 135 times in 2014 and reviewed 582 wines. These 50 Great Wines...
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Weekend Wine Notes: Only the Rhônely
When I posted last week’s edition of Weekend Wine Notes, devoted to catching up on reviews of pinot noir wines from California, William Allen replied on Facebook, “Lots of Pinots — time to be Rhônely.”...
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Weekend Wine Notes: 10 Worthy Reds, $12 to $20
So, today I offer 10 red wines worthy of your attention and use with the hearty fare we prepare during cooler weather, if this country ever gets cooler weather. We’re running 10 to 15 degrees above...
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Weekend Wine Notes: 12 Excellent Wines to Begin the Year
Actually, the title of this post is a misnomer. What I offer today, in the first Weekend Wine Notes of 2019, are 10 wines that rate Excellent and two that rate Exceptional, the latter both pinot noirs...
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Wine of the Day, No. 533
The Kay Brothers “Basket Pressed” Grenache 2017, McLaren Vale, is not “bold and showy,” as I just read about a red wine in an email directed to me, but lithe, subtle and elegantly balanced. There’s a...
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Weekend Wine Notes: Some Syrahs You Would Not Be Sorry to Sip
Or: Some Shiraz You Would Not Be Ashamed to Share. We could do alliteration all day around here. As usual in these Weekend Wine Notes, I dispense with technical data and information of a geographical,...
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50 Great Wines of 2019
The annual “50 Great Wines” of the just completed previous year is a project I look forward to each January. It gives me the opportunity to share with My Readers the favorite wines I tasted or rather...
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12 Red Wines — Not Cabernet, Merlot or Pinot Noir
Not that there’s a darn thing wrong with cabernet sauvignon, merlot or pinot noir grapes and the wines made from them. They’re just so darn ubiquitous. I mean, darn it, these grapes dominate the...
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