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 [...]

Oct
12

Oktoberfest, with a Difference

Last night we got together for our wine club again, though this time we decided on Oktoberfest as our theme and went with beers. Since we’re not sticklers for “rules” we stretched the concept and went with beers, not necessarily German and the German food was not exactly German either.
Our core group includes the Pandya’s [...]

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
20

White Burgundy Tasting

We had another wine club get together last night at Leen & Johan’s place. As is customary, your place, your choice of wine and food. After deliberations that seemed to have gone on for an eternity, Leen finally decided on White Burgundy. I am not really into white wine, more of a red wine snob, [...]