Bois De Menge – The Wine Bois De Menge is this week’s candidate for Bargain Wine of the Week. I purchased it from Trader Joe’s as we shopped…
This week’s candidate for Bargain Wine of the Week comes from Trader Joe’s. It is the 2011 Casone Toscana. The wine is a blend of 80% Sangiovese and…
Baseball Twelve years of living in California have, in the main, not touched my essential Britishness. I still pronounce route the same way as root. I do…
This week our Bargain Wine of the Week, Herrick Red Wine, has a surprising pedigree for a $12 bottle. Conn Creek is a winery on Silverado Trail that…
This week’s Bargain Wine is the 2015 Criss Cross Petite Sirah. The wine has 10% Syrah added. Most of the grapes come from the Clarksburg region, with the…
This week’s Bargain Wine is Broadside Merlot from Paso Robles. The California city of Paso Robles sits about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is at…
This week’s bargain wine of the week is Spanish: 2015 OGV “Old Garnacha Vines” from Bodegas Virgen de la Sierra. The mountain vineyard lies between Madrid and Zaragoza,…
We continue our journey through the wines from Dave Phinney. This week our focus is on Locations AR, a wine from the South American country of Argentina. The…
This week we continue our exploration of the Locations series of wines, with a red wine from Spain. The label bears the single letter ‘E’, for España. Let’s…