Nov
09

Bacio Divino Pazzo 2005, Napa Red Wine

Here is another wine I purchased based on an email from The Wine Library. The review sounded great, rating was 91 from Robert Parker and the price seemed right so I purchased a case.
I opened a couple of bottles at my election night party. The wine had a great bouquet and full flavored fruity taste. [...]

Nov
09

Astrale E Terra Arcturus, 2002, Meritage

I recently purchased 6 bottles of this wine from a daily email I get from The Wine Library. It scored 93 points from Wine Enthusiast. I am always on the look out highly rated good value wines. A few days after buying the wine I was making a beef stew with port and wine and [...]

Sep
27

Celler De L`encastell Marge 2006

If you have kept up with my blogs on wine, you will know that I absolutely love Spanish Priorats. I discovered Priorats about a year ago and just fell in love. I now have a decent collection of Priorat’s. It really is my favorite right now. The problem has been that these wines are typically [...]

Sep
18

Greg Norman Estate Wines

Greg Norman Estates:
Don’t be fooled by this golf legend dabbling in wine. Greg Norman takes his wine making as seriously as his golf game
2005 North Coast Cabernet
The 05 cab needed a little time to open but for a young wine, it drank quite well. The majority of the grapes come from Sonoma so [...]

Aug
23

Bordeaux Night

It’s been a while since I wrote about one of our wine tasting nights. Last month we did martini’s instead of wine but this month we’re back on track again. The way this works is that we are four couples in our self made wine club and we rotate through a different couple’s home once [...]