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Wine Valentine
Tasted


2015 Grenache Griffin Creek Vineyard
Year after year, this Southern Oregon vineyard produces very good Grenache.


2016 Old Vine Zinfandel Pierano Estate Vineyard
The experience leaves us focusing on what we have learned: cooked wine.


2017 Syrah Charles Smith
Charles Smith’s Boom-Boom red blend! Boom-Boom is one of his many funky bottle labels. The winemaker used three reds from the Walla...


2018 Zinfandel Ravens Woods Winery
Whatever the quality of the grape becomes that wine in every bottle. Here is a California Old vine Zinfandel; the grapes are “old vine”...


2017 Merlot Chateau Ste Michelle Vineyards
Merlot is one of those varietals that is hard to mess up. The vineyards in the Columbia Valley Washington grow really good stuff. Chateau...


2017 Malbec Catena Vineyards
A “93” rating? Yes, a well-known taster, James Suckllng, provides rating & tasting notes for many wines. The respected group assigned...


2019 Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough Vineyards
Several years ago, the Kim Crawford label got introduced in the U.S. wine market. Those initial offerings were “Spitfire” Sauvignon...


2017 Vintage #44 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley Vineyards
Looking into this particular Pinot Noir will be different, because Willamette Vineyards has so many excellent Pinots. Since the 1990’s,...


2018 Norton Dale Hollow Winery
Here is a pleasant surprise! It’s a Missouri Norton without the usual heavy tar and tannin taste. The wine is produced exclusively from...


2018 Vieux Clocher Maison Arnoux & Fils
The French fold a lot of stuff together. Here’s another “red wine”; it’s a blend. The bottle showed off well with etchings of a castle...
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