Very bright and bold. Exemplary of it’s type. Grassy and metallic. Lovely.
$15 or so. Kroger (marked down from $35 but it’s Kroger!)
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McManis Viognier 2008
I think there’s good viognier flavors in there somewhere but they’re masked by the oak. I tolerate it enough to drink it but not to seek it.
$10 Kroger?
MacMurray Ranch Pinot Gris 2007
I think there’s good pinot gris flavors in there somewhere but they’re masked by the oak. I like it enough to drink again but not to seek it.
$10 Kroger
Serra da Estrella Albarino 2007
A lot of flavor in this one. Rich and full. Balanced. If you offered me a bowl of mixed lemons, pineapples, apples, peaches, rocks and straw I’d pass but this I’d buy again.
$30 at The Shed
Kim Crawford Unoaked Chardonnay 2009
Delicious.
$20 Kroger
three wines
Commanderie de la Bargemone, Coteaux d’Aix en Provence, 2009
Mrs. Dink: lemon and green apple
Me: a wisp of a wine; barely there; very high acid
$16 Toco Giant
Vina Robles White, 2008
Imaginatively successful blend of verdelho, vermentino, sb, viognier. Soft and easy.
A little flabby after three days in the freezer but still worth drinking.
$14 Toco Giant
Yalumba Viognier, 2008
OK, I guess, but reminiscent of an oaky CA. chardonnay. Viognier can be much better than this.
$19 Toco Giant
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Tagged eden valley, provence, rose, verdelho, vermentino, vina robles, viognier, white, white blend, yalumba
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Bogle, Phantom, 2003
59% Petite Sirah, 39% Old Vine Zinfandel, 2% Old Vine Mourvèdre; 14.6% alcohol; 20 months in American oak.
A chocolate cranberry candy bar. Noticeable but not overpowering tannins. Full bodied, balanced, drinkable now and will remain so, I think, for a few years.
It’s got a lovely, black, minimalistic label, with an ethereal image of silhouetted vines atop a simple yet dramatic typeface. I admit, I am influenced by book covers but I’ve had pleasurable experiences with Bogle wines before so this was an easy pick at $16.
On a scale of Ick to Love it! this easily falls into I’d do it again without hesitation.
Black is Beautiful: Domaine Alfred, Chamisal Vineyard, Estate Syrah, 2003
Black Beauty, Black as Night, Black and Proud, Black is Beautiful, Black Like Me, Back in Black, Black is Back, The Black Album, The Black Grape. Syrah. According to a rather un-P.C. aphorism, once you go black, you never go back. Count me in. Maybe it’s just the black Irish in me but there is no single varietal that woos me as successfully as Syrah. Holding this one up to the light reveals almost nothing except a thin ring of aubergine (eggplant purple) around the perimeter — the wine’s black water shore against the glass.
Cockapoo Ridge Shiraz, 2004
No big jingoes here. I must have been mad as a cut snake to have bought this ’cause I’m not usually such a tightarse that I’d buy a 3 buck cockie. Oh well, can’t say that I been dudded given the cost and I’m certainly not gonna spit the dummy over it. One taste of this rat shit excuse for a wine and I didn’t dilly dally — this puppy went right down the drain. I would have poured it down the dunny but I couldn’t find a good place to set the laptop to snap the picky. Imagine you took some fresh squeezed concord grape juice, watered it down, stuck it in a tin canteen and buried it in a huge pile of cow shit for a week or two.
$3 at Whole Paycheck (not a typo).
Never again.
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Mer Soleil Silver 2007
Luscious. Thick. Creamy. Mildly bitter. Citrus.
Buy again.
$23 Toco Giant
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Tagged california, chardonnay, santa lucia highlands, unoaked
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