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Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Moscato Rose’

The Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Moscato Rose’ is a non vintage Bubbly sourced from grapes grown in South Eastern Australia. Moscato is the popular name for wine produced from the Muscat grape. The Muscat grape may be the oldest domesticated grape and comes in dozens of varieties and not only is it a White wine grape,…

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Sofia Chardonnay 2012

The 2012 Sofia Chardonnay is 75% Chardonnay and 25% Pinot Blanc (a White wine grape, it is a mutation of Pinot Noir) grown in vineyards in Monterey County (just north of Paso Robles), California. In California, a bottle of wine can be identified as a single varietal as long as at least 75% of the…

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Les Hauts De Lagarde Blanc 2012

The 2012 Les Hauts De Lagarde Blanc is a certified organic, Vegan friendly, Estate grown blend of 60% Sauvignon Blanc and 40% Semillon grown in a vineyard near the town of Saint Laurent du Bois in Bordeaux, France. Vegans do not eat or drink food made with animal by-products.  While wine is fermented grapes and…

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Laforet Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2011

The 2011 Laforet Bourgogne Pinot Noir is sourced from 12 different area’s in Burgundy, but mainly Cote Chalonnaise and Cote de Nuits. The Laforet Bourgogne is Joseph Drouhin’s entry level Burgundy wine, Joseph Drouhin is a well respected family owned Estate founded in 1880. It is thought that Pinot Noir has been gown in Burgundy…

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Coppola Director’s Cut Alexander Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2012

The 2012 Coppola Director’s Cut Alexander Valley Sauvignon Blanc is 100% Sauvignon Blanc sourced from a long term contracted grower in the Alexander Valley sub-AVA of Sonoma County, California. The Alexander Valley (the Russian River flows thru the center of the valley) is, during the day, one of the warmest grape growing areas in Northern…

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Intermingle Red 2011

The 2011 Intermingle California Red blend is a $5.99 ALDI exclusive sourced from grapes grown in more than one California grape growing AVA. ALDI does not provide much information on the particulars of the wine, “Cherry and berry notes with a touch of oak in the finish” and this is a semi-sweet Red, is about…

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Rickshaw Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

The 2011 Rickshaw Cabernet Sauvignon is 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc sourced from vineyards in Napa Valley, Sonoma, Paso Robles and Mendocino. Rickshaw Wines are sourced from up to 24 different lots of grapes (different vineyards, different sections of a vineyard, aged for varying times in new or used oak barrels),…

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Redwood Creek Merlot 2011

The 2011 Redwood Creek Merlot is sourced from vineyards in more than one California grape growing AVA. In California, if less than 85% of the grapes are sourced from a single AVA, say for instance Paso Robles or Napa, the label must read California and not the more specific AVA. Red Wood Creek is one of…

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Chariot Gypsy Red 2012

The 2012 Chariot Gypsy Red is a $4.99 Trader Joe’s exclusive. Every year since 2000, Jim Neal has been selling his Chariot Gypsy wines through Trader Joe’s. When it first debuted, $10 buck wines were an iffy proposition, a $4.99 wine and a Red wine to boot, that was flat out delicious was truly  a…

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Four Sisters Merlot 2009

The Four Sisters Merlot is sourced from the 4 vineyards in the Central Victoria grape growing region in Southeast Australia. Four Sisters Wines was started  in the 90’s when winemaker, Trevor Mast, decided to produce wines that would appeal to his four daughters (the eldest daughter designed the label), soft, supple, fruit forward wines made…

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The Press Sauvignon Blanc 2012

The 2012 The Press Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from sustainably grown vineyards located in Mendocino County in Northern California. The Press is a label owned by the H. A. Oswald family who own and operated Husch Vineyards who produce Estate bottled wines in the Anderson Valley of Mendocino County, though The Press is not listed…

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Murphy-Goode Homefront Red 2011

The 2011 Murphy-Goode Homefront Red is a blend of Zinfandel, Syrah, Petite Sirah and a little Merlot sourced from vineyards in more than one California grape growing AVA. This blend is aged in French and American oak barrels and the alcohol content is 13.5%. That is a summery of the technical details for this Red…

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Hey Mambo Kinky Pink 2010

The 2010 Hey Mambo Kinky Pink is a Rose’ of Pinot Noir produced by The Other Guys, a branch of the famous Sebastiani wine family. With a name like Hey Mambo Kinky Pink, you would think this a frivolous, trifle of a wine, but what you are getting is actually a single vineyard, relatively small…

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Pepi California Sauvignon Blanc 2011

The 2011 Pepi California Sauvignon Blanc is sourced from vineyards in the Lake County AVA (north of Napa) and the Clarksburg AVA (near the San Francisco Bay, if you see California on the front label of a wine bottle there is a good chance some of the grapes came from Clarksburg, since most of the…

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Woop Woop Shiraz 2011

The 2011 Woop Woop (Aussie slang for the middle of nowhere) Shiraz is mainly sourced from McLaren Vale and Wrattonbully in Southeast Australia. Woop Woop has long been our go-to inexpensive Aussie Shiraz, here are the tasting notes for the 2008 and 2009 vintages. Woop Woop is Penny’s Hill winery (winemaker Ben Riggs) value priced Shiraz,…

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