Oct 31
I recently had the opportunity to participate in an online Beaujolais wine tasting. As part of this tasting, I received four wines from different Crus in Beaujolais. Even though these wines are all made from the same grape, they are all quite different from each other, as well as very different from the more common …
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Oct 23
I bought this wine a while back at a local wine store for $8. I frequently will check out the Chilean wines since they are typically fairly inexpensive, and I really like Chilean wine. Yali is one of the Viña Ventisquero brands, and I’ve had a Ventisquero wine before that I really liked. After purchasing …
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Oct 23
I’ve reviewed the 2010 Big House Red before, but I recently received this wine in a 3L wine cask. It’s the same wine, so there isn’t a need for a new review, but I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk a bit about some differences between wine in a bottle and wine in a …
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Oct 19
Dinosaur wine? No, the wine isn’t that old, but the bottles all have pictures of dinosaurs on them. My 9-year-old daughter, who knows much more about dinosaurs than I do, tells me that this bottle has a Stegosaurus on it. I don’t know if there is a reason they picked that particular dinosaur for this …
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Oct 16
I recently received an unexpected package with two 3L wine casks of Big House wine. One of them, the 2010 Big House Red, I reviewed previously. The other one, however, was the 2010 Big House White, which is a new vintage that I haven’t tried. An interesting thing about the Big House blends is that …
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Oct 16
This has been a fun week for me! I’ve had a wide variety of Minnesota wines, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the quality I’ve found. Due to the very cold winters here in Minnesota, wines produced from grapes grown here are necessarily different from many of the more common grape varieties, but that doesn’t …
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Oct 15
For the final day of Regional Wine Week, I picked up a bottle of Hastings Reserve, made by Alexis Bailly Vineyard in Hastings, Minnesota. This is a port-style wine made in Minnesota, and is called a “Minnesota Port.” Strictly speaking, this is not Port wine since it does not come from the Douro Valley in Portugal. (US …
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Oct 15
I’ve never had mead before, but I’ve been wanting to try it. While I was looking for a couple more wines to finish out Regional Wine Week, I spotted the WineHaven Stinger Honeywine and decided to buy it. The Peterson family has been keeeping bees for over 50 years. They use the honey from their …
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Oct 13
Parley Lake Winery is located on a gravel road near Parley Lake just east of Waconia, Minnesota. The same family also operates Deardorff Orchards at the same location, where you can buy apples and even go pick your own. It makes sense, then, that they would combine apples and grapes in one wine. In addition …
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Oct 12
Today, for day 4 of Regional Wine Week, I’m featuring another fruit wine from Forestedge Winery. Cranberries grow well in the cold northern climate. In fact, over half of the total US production of cranberries comes from Wisconsin (which is just east of Minnesota). For white cranberries, they pick them before they turn red. Forestedge also …
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