My favorite holiday is Halloween, even though I sometimes feel too old to celebrate it.  And I was intrigued when I received samples of Halloween-themed wine from Elk Creek Vineyards.  The labels are really cool, but the critical question is “how is the wine?”
I have to admit that my expectations are low for wine from [...]

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Washington State is an area I’m excited about when it comes to wine.  The more wines I try from Washington, the more intrigued I become.  And so, I was glad to taste this Mercer Chardonnay from the Yakima Valley.
Mercer Estates is a family-owned winery, which is actually a partnership between the Mercer and Hogue families.  [...]

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The first few times I saw this wine I thought it was Bridgeman, with an “e” in the name, but it’s Bridgman without an “e.”  It’s funny how your mind plays tricks on you like that… and I swear it’s not from drinking too much wine.  The wine is named after William B. Bridgman, a [...]

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You won’t see much marketing for Crane Lake wines out there, but you will find them in many supermarkets.  Crane Lake is another label from cheap wine mogul Fred Franzia and his Bronco Wine Company.  These are the same folks behind the legendary Charles Shaw (aka Two Buck Chuck) that you’ll find in Trader Joe’s [...]

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Continuing with the Chardonnay series, today we’re checking out an Argentine Chardonnay from Alamos, a value wine label produced by Bodega Catena Zapata in Argentina.
Catena Zapata has its roots in Argentine winemaking going back to 1902, when Nicola Catena planted his first Malbec vines.  The winery faced many challenges and changes over the years, and [...]

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A couple weeks ago I did a review of a wine from a relatively new wine brand, Motos Liberty Pinot Gigio.  And today I’m checking out another wine from them, their Chardonnay.  The Pinot Grigio I was not able to taste in a blind lineup, but this one was tasted blind — and qualitatively the [...]

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It’s been a while since we’ve done a series on Chardonnay, and given its popularity I thought I should revisit it.  So, I pulled the a few bottles of it I had gathered in my tasting queue to do a blind tasting.  There were no absolute rock stars in the lot, but there were a [...]

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