Sunday afternoon, watching football. Not my team the Jets since they play monday night against Miami (GO JETS!), sipping wine. I bought 6 bottles based on a 94-97 point rating from jay Miller at The Wine Advocate. This is the first bottle I’ve opened. The wine itself is 80% shiraz and 20% cabernet sauvignon and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
