Category: Argentina
Single Blind Tasting – Fun Exercise in Improving Wine Appreciation
Can a single blind tasting be of value to wine drinkers seeking to learn more techniques for identifying the similarities and differences in wines, while honing their individual palates and sensitivities? The answer is yes,...
Read MoreFrom Barbera to Zinfandel, Finding Values in Old and New World Red Wines
Recent tastings – foreign and domestic, remotely or in person — led us to wine discoveries from the Sonoma Coast, to the mountains of Argentina, sunny slopes of Rioja and emerging vineyards in Central Otago, New Zealand....
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Red Wines from Four Continents for Summer Sipping, $10 to $20
The following wines were selected from among several hundred tasted in recent months and scored...
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Beyond Malbec: Premium Wines from Valle de Uco, Mendoza
We’d read many recent articles about the evolution of the wine business in the Mendoza region of...
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Summer Close Out on Red, White and Bubbly Wine Values
If you are looking for tasting adventures with unfamiliar grapes, Spain continues to provide some...
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Picnic, Barbecue and Burger Wines: New Finds from $9 to $16
In search of something with a little more style than beers and sodas to go with food during summer...
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40 Crowd-Pleasing Whites and Reds, Under $20, for the Holidays
Heading into the holiday season, we started tasting potential party-pleasing wines to add to your...
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Finding Your Benchmark Wines, Calibrating Your Palate
During the early days of running the San Diego Chapter of WINO (Wine Investigation for Novices and...
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Big wine country: 13 reds to match with BBQ, pasta, pizza
With the grilling season officially launched this past Memorial Day weekend on barbecues all over...
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BBQ fun: Cabernet, Merlot, Malbec and blends from $10 to $19
Retailers, merchants, supermarkets in some states and big box stores can be good browsing...
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Burgers and BBQ Red Wines to Toast the Fourth
Assuming big crowds are showing up for the Fourth of July festivities, we went through our tasting...
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Cabernet and Blends: Quaffing Values to Evolving Older Wines
In sampling several hundred wines at trade tastings and events, plus browsing local merchants for...
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