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Wine Valentine
Tasted


2012 Red Rioja Vina Real Vineyard
Know that I am terrible with numbers. One example is my checkbook: if my numbers run between $49-$149 of the bank’s amount, then it is a...


2015 Pinot Blanc Willamette Valley Vineyards
It’s summer time, again. The season for shift toward more white wines: Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, etc. (Notice the photo is...


2015 Etna Rossa Benanti Viticol Tori Vineyard, Italy
… Another fun wine tasting at our favorite Kansas City Italian Restaurant, Garrozo’s, where their bar tender knows his wine cellar. He...


2013 Cabernet-Franc Griffin Creek Vineyards
Every horse running in the Kentucky Derby is a thoroughbred, but not every racehorse in the Derby is a winner. Griffin-Creek vineyards...


2015 Shiraz Layer Cake Vineyard
Australia produces and sells some darn good wines. And one might ask, “what makes a wine good?”… My dad used to make his own wine during...


2015 Vintage 42 Chardonnay Willamette Valley Vineyard
Tualatin Estate Vineyard is producing a new Chardonnay. Of course, trying their new production was a must! … & if this Chard was as good...


2012 Pinot Noir Tualatin Estate Vineyard
Tualatin Estate Pinot Noir is my favorite American Pinot. I’ve been buying, drinking it since the late 1990’s and greatly enjoy each...


2015 Sauvignon Blanc Wines of Substance
Here is an interesting lable: SB. At first, I took it as a swear word, but read “Sauvignon Blanc”. It is a Washington State wine that got...


2015 Malbec Susan Balbo Vineyard
At our last neighbors’ wine tasting party, a guest gifted us with a bottle of one of his favorite Argentine Malbec, grown in high...


2013 Merlot Kendall Jackson
K.J. does its wines consistently. This’’13 Merlot makes a good T.V. watching sipping wine… Tune in a movie & sip along. There is a...
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