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Before tasting a wine, heck, even before buying I like to look at labels. For three reasons.

Art work - I know that it doesn’t have anything to do with the flavor, but it is like a cover on a book: it may make you buy it.
Flavors - although I don’t always taste what the [...]

Wow! OOPS is right! This one was like tasting fruit dipped in Everclear. Not really a good wine for any occasion.
2005 (oops) Cabernet Franc Carmenère
(oops) Winery
Central Valle, Chile
$9.99 at Cost Plus World Market
I was really disappointed with this wine. Normally, a Chilean wine is a good wine. And, with all of [...]

Occasionally on a late Friday night, after having worked until 10 pm, cracking open a bottle of vino is a great way to get some awesome sleep that night for a long Saturday. I just so happen to be flying to Vancouver at 6 am the next morning, so I figured I would really [...]

I had the wonderful experience of being able to trade in some flight coupons to upgrade to United First, the first class seats, for a flight from Chicago back to San Jose. During the flight, there was a good meal (Santa Fe Chicken Salad) and I opted to have a red wine for the [...]

I’ve enjoyed two Pinots in the past couple of weeks. I’m enjoying a glass of this Mirassou tonight.
Mirassou Winery
2005 Pinot Noir, California
Price: Definitely less than $18, probably less than $15
Where to buy
Yes I do drink alone on occassion, and that’s OK (although not recommended for most). This Pinot isn’t busting at the seams with [...]

While I was up in Chicago this weekend, I was going to cook for my friends whose house i was staying at. I thought it only fair to cook a meal for them. Well, that meal is tomorrow, but tonight, I decided to try out a good wine while watching SNL. Here [...]

Once again, I tried another red French wine. Even as I am trying to write this, I am having to really find out where the wine is made and what grape it is made from. Here’s the skinny on it.
The winery: Moulin d’Eole
Country: France
Region: Languedoc Roussillon
Apellation: Costieres de Nimes
Price: $8.99 at Whole Foods [...]

This may be the epitome of good cheap wine. At least in my humble opinion. The bottle that I picked up came from Long’s Drug Store in Sunnyvale, CA for a whopping $6.99 (you can probably find it cheaper in some grocery stores, too). The 2005 Yellow Tail Merlot is a recent [...]

This is a wine that I picked up from Whole Foods Market last week. Yes, it was on the cheap isle for their wine section, but I was intrigued by it only being $8.99 and from France. I am not a French sympathizer or anything, but they have been making some killer wines [...]

For Valentine’s Day, our featured wine is a wonderful White Riesling from Storrs Winery.
White Riesling Monterey, 2003
Viento Vineyard, Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
Storrs Winery
Price: About $14
We tried this wine with a not so traditional Valentine’s meal of Thai Fried Rice. As anticipated, it proved to be great with the spicy nauture of this dish, as would [...]