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2010 Mollydooker Gigglepot McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon

2010 Mollydooker Gigglepot McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon

This style of wine will please many but I must first qualify that the many I speak of will not be the average Cabernet Sauvignon consumer. There are many dry red wines that have a lot of fruit flavor and may even make you think you are tasting a sweet wine, now multiply that by [...]

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2009 Treana Paso Robles Red Table Wine

2009 Treana Paso Robles Red Table Wine

The Hope family that owns Treana wines has a reputation of being innovative in their approach to winemaking and marketing. The concept behind Treana Red speaks to both of those aspects of the wine business. Eschewing the need for a variety specific label this Paso Robles winery has single handedly advanced the term Super Paso [...]

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2010 Mollydoooker “The Scooter” McLaren Vale Merlot

2010 Mollydoooker “The Scooter” McLaren Vale Merlot

If you have forgotten what really good merlot tastes like you should reacquaint yourself to this grape by buying a bottle of this Mollydooker and experiencing what merlot should be instead of that homogenized everyman wine that seems to be what a lot of bigger wineries are aiming for no matter what they charge per [...]

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2010 Pali Rivera Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

2010 Pali Rivera Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

A Sonoma Coast AVA Pinot noir produced by a winery from Lompoc that starts out a little burly for a Pinot noir. Not quite to the point of being hurly burly which is a good thing and being burly is not necessarily a bad thing in a red wine, it’s just not a style you [...]

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2008 Marchesi de Frescobaldi Castello di Nipozzano Chianti Rufina Riserva

2008 Marchesi de Frescobaldi Castello di Nipozzano Chianti Rufina Riserva

This Chianti shows some sophistication that a lot of wineries fail to coax out of their Sangiovese. Complex aromas of ripe bing cherry and a hint of black pepper with nuances of fresh coffee beans and cocoa complete the aroma profile. A clean vibrant acidity reverberates through the mid-palate due to the maturation in only [...]

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2010 Carmel Road Monterey Pinot Noir

2010 Carmel Road Monterey Pinot Noir

This wine is 100% Pinot Noir sourced from five vineyard locations within the Monterey AVA. Aromas are delicate red fruit and fire singed rosemary sprigs. This is a light style Pinot Noir wine from the Monterey AVA where bigger flavors in most vintages are the norm. This style will appeal to Pinotphiles who prefer their [...]

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