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Xarel·lo and Shrimp on the BBQ
Aroma: smell of a garden, grass and herbs Color: medium gold Taste: white fruit, complex, even without being blended with another type of grape. 100% xarel-lo
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Tyrells –
Hunter Valley Semillon Aroma: Peach Color: Light gold color Taste: Peach, Chalk and Cantelope According to Tyrell’s website: Sourced from a small selection of some of our top Semillon vineyards around the Hunter Valley. Most of the vineyards are dry grown and have an average vine age of 40 years.
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Cap de Faugeres, Bordeaux
2014 Chateau Cap de Faugeres “La Mouleyre” Castillon 750ml (Bordeaux) From the Garagiste: Every once in a while, we find a wine that is so good and so low in $ (and also strangely overlooked), it makes no sense at all – that’s a wine that demands an offer to
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Lamb – local + French wine
Grilling Saucing Late Autumn, and the weather is summery. Barbecue a few lamb chops and set them in a sauce of fresh plums from the orchard, just over the wall. Bake scallop potatoes on the grill, and by the time this is done, the autumn sun is setting and it
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Natural Wine
Of course, this makes sense in our progress toward better food. Natural wine is as inevitable as getting back to real coffee — ground fresh sourced deep and bought fairly. But wine making takes longer. Today decades after the coffee houses of the 60s where Italian espresso machines came
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Wine 4 Eclipse Holiday
Wine Tasting with Family Embruix Priorat 2021 Producer: Vall Llach Grape: 27% Grenache, 21% Cariñena, 12% Syrah, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 28% Merlot. From: Priorat, Spain Smells: (aromas of raspberries and blackberries, with hints of licorice, graphite, spices and aromatic herbs on a dark mineral background) Tastes: dark fruit, spice
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Wine Notes:
Tronquoy-LaLande From Wine-Cellar: 2/18/2024 – GERBBB LIKES THIS WINE:92 Points This chateau seems to improve year by year. Typical medoc/ st. Estèphe, nose (dark fruit, lavender, tabaco, mint). Taste (nice balance and freshness, a bit high on alcohol, loads of red dark fruits, bit of herbs). Really good, especially for a 2017. Like
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2015 Brunello
La Palazzetta Brunello di Montalcino Med body Color: light ruby Biologique, organic Smell: berry, citrus Taste: high acidity and very tannic BIO/organic from Garagiste, we paid $23 including shipping. The writer of the Garagiste says we should compare our price to $40-70 around the globe. It’s a very serious wine
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Canneto – Montepulciano
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, from Toscana Med body Color: Dark ruby High alcohol 14.5 Smell: berry, grass meadow, sweet chocolate Taste: cake Menu pairing: cheeseburger made to with left over queso, and some mild green chilis, Served bun-less with some left over pizza, thus the Italian.
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Octoberfiesta Beer – Santa Fe
Winner in our judgement is the ExNovo, after that the far left beer, the Steel Bender. The Santa Fe Brewing’s offering was far too sweet. The ExNovo had a complex taste pallette that isn’t always depending on sweetness.