Archive for June, 2008
14 Hands Cabernet Sauvignon - revisited
I have not been a fanatic about wine forever. It was back about a year ago that Sarah and I were meeting up with a few of her co-workers at a wine bar in Independence called Budapest Blonde that wine became important to me. I recall the one lady we were meeting was incredibly late […]
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Clos du Prieur 2005 Red Wine ($17)
This wine has a beautiful inky purple color. A very strong cherry and black berry nose and a bit of a plum smell. I’ve been staring at this bottle of wine for about an hour just wondering what it tastes like. This is a French wine […]
Read More..>>Prado Ayala Rioja
A Spanish wine that I found on winelibrary.com and was reviewed by Gary V. As I am typing this I have not yet tried the wine, but Sarah just gave it a taste. She made a hardcore whiskey face and said “you’re gonna love it” …
Prado Ayala 2006 Rioja, $10
A dark red almost […]
Eppalock Ridge Shiraz
I just got back from a weekend in Amish country. It’s beautiful down there and very peaceful. We went to three different wineries including Breitenbach, Swiss Heritage and Silver Moon. I really wanted to like these wines, but none of them seemed half as good as wines coming out of California and […]
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