Tag: Tempranillo
In Search of Good Red Wine Blends — Traditional to Creative
One strategy for calibrating your palate is to taste wines made from the same varietal grape and decide on styles you like. This is best done blind, where a co-conspirator buys the wines and another puts them in numbered brown...
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Lodi Reds Redux; New Discoveries from California
After enjoying a class on Lodi wines at the annual SommCon® conference held each year in San Diego...
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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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Zinfandel, Rioja and Rhone Adventures in Red Wines
Looking for new adventures in matching red wines with food? We reviewed tasting notes from...
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Paso Robles Wines Evolving; Former East-West Divide Now 11 AVAs
The Paso Robles American Viticultural Appellation (AVA) was established in 1983 with 17 wineries...
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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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Baja California Adventure: Wines of Valle de Guadalupe
Exploring the wine country in the Valle de Guadalupe in Northern Baja California requires good...
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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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Hawke’s Bay — New Zealand haven for Bordeaux blends, big Reds
Hawke’s Bay is the oldest wine region in New Zealand and one known for the quality of its Bordeaux...
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Great whites from Paso Robles? Tasting panel makes the case
The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance stopped in San Diego on July 30 as part of its grand tasting...
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The 24-Winery Tasting Opportunity, Murphys in Calaveras County
Tucked away in the Sierra Foothills is one of the more concentrated tasting adventures in California or anywhere else: the town of Murphys, with 24 tasting rooms within easy walking distance along a one-mile stretch of Main Street. The wines carry…
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