tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3545152562294521172024-03-14T09:15:12.572-07:00Naked Wine ReviewsIt's Not About Wine<br>
It's About PoetryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354515256229452117.post-25183968213857746712017-06-18T09:41:00.000-07:002017-06-18T09:53:42.950-07:00Matello Pinot Noir 13’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><b>Wine: </b>Pinot Noir</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Producer: </b><a href="http://matellowines.com/" target="_blank">Matello</a> </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Vintage: </b>13’</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Region: </b>Oregon>Willamette Valley</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Price: </b>? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It was a gift; a very thoughtful and delicious gift.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Date tasted: </b>6/18/16</span></div>
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<span class="s1">They say time flies like the wind; I guess they do.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html" target="_blank">Place tasted</a>: </b></span><span class="s1">A year ago on a hill near a waterfall just outside of ‘Camp Earth’. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Behind me was a giant pink trash can with big orange and green flowers painted on it, and everything I owned up until that moment was in there. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I had just skinned a pineapple and picked the nose off an avocado. Someone had to do it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I closed my eyes until only my heart could see me, pulsating along some blissful stretch of cerebral shoreline in a joyful game of tide tag.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I opened my eyes and everything in my head spilled out onto an eternally evolving yet decaying canvas of life. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">I closed my eyes again and sipped blissfuly on the wine. Tag, you’re it.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html" target="_blank">Cedar Planked SaLmon</a>. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Would be good with chicken, fish or pork; soft subtle cheeses, and foods with a gentle spirit.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Appearance: </b>Sporting a svelte and sexy body with soft strawberry glowing in her aura, she’s a Willamette Valley beauty queen. Her jewels sparkle with the vintage patina of rusty orange liquid light.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>On the snoot: </b>is that of a hidden berry patch on the western slope of a s</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">un soaked mountain in summer time. A plethora of berries, wild flowers, tall oaks and sunshine. Mmm, smells like home.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Taste: </b>Lively in the mouth like little bursts of pie cherry fireworks followed by a silky smooth finish that warms the spirit by delivering gentle strokes from her artist brush gracefully onto your palate. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Balance: </b>Bright, not sharp. Acid over sugar, in fact no residual sugars that I could detect (we Like that). Nice on the alcohol and just a teeny weeny hint of tannin, such is Pinot noir. This is a beautifully well crafted wine. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Comments: </b>This wine just exudes romance. It’s a great date wine. Seductive and wooing. You should get a bottle and share it with a good friend, naked of course. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Welcome summer of 2017. Happy Solstice Everyone!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Salude, Dude! </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Rating: 4 enthusiastic tipsy’s </b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>NOTE: </b>Many thanks and blessings to my nephew, LAW, who gifted me this most thoughtful and delicious wine. You are the best :) Hope your </span>birthday is grand, every year. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354515256229452117.post-62174123525019269302015-12-25T08:30:00.000-08:002015-12-25T08:32:13.529-08:00Ventisquero Grey Single Block Carmenere 11'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Wine: </b>Ventisquero Grey Single Block</div>
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<b>Grape: </b>Carmenere</div>
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<b>Producer: </b>Vina Ventisquero Ltd.</div>
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<b>Vintage: </b>11'</div>
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<b>Region: </b>Chile>Maipo Valley</div>
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<b>Price: </b>12.00-18.00 seems to be the average</div>
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<b>Date tasted: </b>12/22/15, A Winter Solstice Treat</div>
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<b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I had just returned from Starbucks where I ordered an 8oz bone dry cappuccino in an <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/2649317/starbucks-responds-to-red-cup-bleeding-polar-bear-controversies-by-offering-free-starbucks-for-life/">offensive red cup</a> and bought them out of those adorable little <a href="http://uproxx.com/life/2015/12/starbucks-polar-bear-cookies-controversy/">polar bear cookies with their throats cut</a> (well I would have, were they not discontinued). Starbucks rocks! </div>
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There are so many Real problems in the world right now; <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/046620_Fukushima_radiation_global_ecosystem.html">radiation</a>, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/048652_I_miss_America_freedom_tyranny.html">tyrannical governments</a>, <a href="http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/haarp-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/">weather control being used as a WMD</a>… maybe take on one of Those instead of getting upset over the color of a paper cup or seeing a cut throat where a red scarf actually exists on a polar bear cookie.</div>
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So back on topic, with the energy obtained by the cappuccino I put together a marvelous shepherds pie using lambs, yams, and other yummy things. </div>
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I then poured a glass of wine and toasted to blissful peace in the magical longest night. </div>
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May you all be merry, Fearless, and Kind to one another now and throughout the new year. Skal All.</div>
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<b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">A Kind of Shepherds Pie</a> (to view recipe click that link, look to your right on the sidebar or in 'Food & Wine Pairing' link on banner at top of page). They paired Beautifully! A food friendly wine that would go nicely with a wide range of cheeses; Italian herbs & sweet spices; and meats of lamb, venison, beef stews and foul. Also veggie matter of corn, sweet potato, and mushrooms.</div>
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<b>Appearance:</b> Like a glowing orb of pomegranate, rich ruby red with intense violet swoons that grace your happy glass. Thick bulbous legs move slowly down the sides as if to enchant all who dare stare deeply into her liquid soul. She is indeed, very pretty.</div>
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<b>On the snoot: </b>Blueberry and roses deliver a pleasing punch to the snoot while the heavy perfume of soft cedar and pineapple kush present on the exhale. Her scent is exquisite.</div>
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<b>Taste: </b>A burst of deep dark berry washes over the palate as a halo of sweet basil </div>
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orbits the outer limits of the tongue, pleasing and drinkable. She comes on strong with a quenching quality and then rides away on an etherial red velvet wave of extremely soft tannins in lingering decent.</div>
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<b>Balance: </b>Sugar over acid, but not too much so; dishonest tannins, too refined and polite to know what they are Really thinking; alcohol dances light and lively. </div>
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<b>Comments: </b>This wine is good in the way that Ken and Barbie are good. She's well dressed and has quite pleasing flavors. She is exactly as she should be, but has little to define her unique unto herself, lacking the eccentric complexities that I seek to excite me when looking for a new piece of wine strange. This wine 'makes love'. I prefer a less tender expression of affection. That said, she is very food friendly and I cannot imagine a more perfect wine to suit the unusual version of shepherds pie she was paired with. You won't be disappointed, but you probably won't mark the anniversary either. </div>
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<b>Rating: 3.78 tipsys</b></div>
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<i>Did you enjoy my wine poetry? Was it useful to you?</i></div>
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<i>Blessings and Peace to All</i></div>
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<b>Wine: </b>Pinotage</div>
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<b>Producer: </b>Ernst Gouws&Co</div>
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<b>Vintage: </b>11’</div>
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<b>Price: </b>11.00</div>
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<b>Date tasted: </b>9/23/15</div>
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<b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>I was high in a tower somewhere, hiding from the world and waiting for my hair to grow out. I had 'Girl in the Woods' on my wall, Trout Mask Replica on my iPod, a cat with an impressive vocabulary wandering around, and a window from which to view the moon. Not a bad place to taste good wine. </div>
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<b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Iman Bayildi</a>, a Turkish Eggplant dish. So simple, and so very tasty. It’s eggplant and olive oil paradise. </div>
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<b>Appearance: </b>Viscous with sticky slow moving legs. Bright ruby and rust combine with rich blood in a clear and beautiful pool of life force.</div>
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<b>On the snoot: </b>Bold and earthy with dark berry. Powerful and pleasant.</div>
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<b>Taste: </b>Blackberry and cassis wrapped in earth and oak then seasoned with tobacco pave the way for leather whips and creosote to dance in bloody red moonlight with chocolate sandalwood incense. Firm tight little pillows of tannin offer a sort of grounding familiar comfort. Finish is lengthy and soft with a slight quenching quality. </div>
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<b>Balance: </b>Acid over sugar, dry yet warm with masses of soft soothing tannins. It’s a little hot out of the bottle so let breathe and mellow before pouring.</div>
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<b>Comments: </b>I love pinotage. Pinotage has a kind of ‘bad boy’ thing about it that is irresistible. It’s a rebel, a wine gone rogue, a unique and free spirit and a beautiful honest expression of an exotic grape that deserves great respect and praise. Enjoy naked and in good health, Serefe! </div>
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<b>Wine: </b>Rosato</div>
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<b>Grapes: </b>Sangiovese & Canaiolo</div>
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<b>Producer: </b>Santa Cristina Antinori</div>
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<b>Vintage: </b>14’</div>
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<b>Region: </b>Italy>Tuscany</div>
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<b>Price: </b>9.00, average</div>
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<b>Date tasted: </b>9/2/15</div>
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<b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.htmH">Place tasted:</a> </b>I'd been tracking the bunnies that jumped out of last nights dream. All day long I was creeping down alleys, looking under rocks and inside faerie circles. They had the distinctive scent of white chocolate (circa 1975) which I caught just as they hopped out of my head that morning and into the waking world. You can't have dream bunnies bouncing around all over your neighborhood like that. You know how they are. I got the last one of them back into my head by nightfall but it was an exhausting all day endeavor. Boy, was I happy to finally sit down and relax with a rosy colored glass of chilled enlightened vino and some delightful snacks.</div>
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No matter the job, it's always nice to feel you've done it well, even when it's just getting dream bunnies back to their proper dimension. </div>
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<b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Nightshade Harvest hors d'oeuvres</a>, yummy.</div>
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<b>Appearance: </b>She sports a strong yet delicate body all dressed in colors of rose hip jelly or malaya garnet, a brilliant gemstone. So beautiful was the color that it hypnotized me and I gazed into it a good ten minutes before even taking my first sip. She's simply gorgeous.</div>
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<b>On the snoot: </b>is the very slight scent of honeysuckle and melon.</div>
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<b>Taste: </b>Simple and highly floral with fruits of soft citrus<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 52, 61); color: #0d343d;"> and gentle pear</span>, dry and lively. Finish is warm and smooth. </div>
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<b>Balance: </b>Dry and light with no residual sugars and a nice gentle warming alcohol. A wonderfully sculpted work of art. </div>
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<b>Comments: </b>This wine is flawlessly perfect. I had no idea how very classy a rose' could be. It was a humbling education for me and I'm so pleased to have learned this lesson. If you are lucky enough to live in an area that carries <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(13, 52, 61); color: #0d343d;">Cipresseto Rosato Toscana </span>you should buy some. It will not disappoint, even if you are normally a red drinker like myself. Good wine is good wine and it comes in all colors of the rainbow. Expand your vision and remember variety is truly the spice of life. </div>
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<b>Wine: </b>Bodega Norton Malbec Reserva </div>
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<b>Producer: </b>Bodega Norton</div>
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<b>Vintage: </b>12’</div>
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<b>Region: </b>Argentina>Mendoza>Lujan de Cuyo</div>
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<b>Price: </b>18.00</div>
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<b>Date tasted: </b>8/09/15</div>
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<b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> the oddness of clarity I sipped and contemplated the ship wreck of the past week(Aug 3rd-8th). I remember some really bad moments followed by some Really bad food. Then after a six day run of painfully bad moments I woke up without the pain and just the moment alone. First I noticed the silence, then I realized I was thinking again! good brain, good brain. To celebrate the passing of the week long cluster headache I joyously embraced every beautiful scent, taste, visual, intellectual and physical experience I could soak up which included this most expressive wine. It was the beginning of an absolutely magical rest of the month. </span></div>
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<b>Served with: </b>It was perfect with <a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Mediterranean Style Rolled Flank Steak</a>. Would be good with challenging cheeses, herby red sauces, and bold red meats. Try with steak au poivre, yummy. </div>
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<b>Appearance: </b>Profound and serious red with violet neon highlights. Nice firm body, viscous and meaty.</div>
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<b>On the snoot: </b>A bold snoot rich in bramble patch perfume floods your senses on the inhale. Suspend your breath right here for just a moment to heighten the experience of vanilla, oak, and grape pixy stix that emerges upon the exhale. Dreamy.</div>
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<b>Taste: </b>A dry black current and vanilla introduction blossoms into masses of chewy and kind of fury tannins slathered in black pepper and espresso. Finish is long, dry, and filled with more tannin and tobacco that lingers like a naked friend staring into space and thoughtfully smoking after a frighteningly sensual experience . I Loved it!</div>
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<b>Balance: </b>Acid over sugar but still smooth and silky; no residual sugars to speak of. He's packed with tannin and pretty hot so let him breathe in order to plump and get himself in the zone.</div>
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<b>Comments: </b>Wow, what a great wine! Masculine and musky, I could drink from this bottle all day long. Danger zone!</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>The light mysterious red of vintage velvet fading rusty with time, royal and rich in character. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Memories of a grape Kool aid stand on the corner of your past intersects the place where wild strawberries squeeze the black and white of your heart into oblivion. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Saturated with ripe red strawberry, star anise and maybe just a hint of basil. Both quenching and moreish with just an afterthought of tannin. Finish lingers a while and then drops quickly into a mysterious abyss leaving you wondering ‘who Was that red wine?’ and ‘when is she coming back?’ </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>France><b> </b>Languedoc-Roussillon>Cote du Roussillon>d’Origine Protegee</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I was naked… again, running around my back yard in the middle of the night dancing and celebrating the first day of the Celtic Tree Month of Holly. There were some very confused looking deer watching me but I don’t think they were particularly offended or impressed. The moon was quartered up like a cheese sandwich as the heavens swelled around it. It was a magical evening and a delightful wine. What more do you want? Plus naked.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So here’s to the Celtic Tree Month of Holly and to remembering that there is Always something to celebrate in this life. A votre sante!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Interesting high rounded formations as you swirl onto the sides of the glass with eventual thin yet pronounced fast running legs. She has a bright ruby glow about her. A svelte lovely lady of a wine in a slinky red dress. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Juicy with dark berries, cardamom and star anise. Supple plentiful tannins follow through into a satisfying finish that lingers lightly on the breath.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Sugars and acids balance out nicely; and along with her medium body, lively alcohol and cushy tannins she’s a well structured wine being.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">summertime juiciness… a quenching quality if you will. It’s not sweet by any stretch though so I thought I’d make that clear. Light and dry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>California>Sonoma County>Russian River Valley</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>The magic of the summer solstice filling me with light and the heat of the day sizzling inside me I put on some Edith Piaf, popped the cork of this chilled beauty and enjoyed a 2 o’clock glass of wine from the deck of my fantasy home overlooking the pure calm of oceans spirit and inhaling the rich moist comfort of her breezes. Eyes closed and solid in my visualization I pledged to reunite and never ever leave her side again. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To living the dream, Hazza!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Cardamom maple saLmon</a>, oh so good. Try it along side white fish or chicken, simply prepared. Rich creamy foods with mushrooms and summer vegetables seasoned lightly with fragrant herbs such as basil or dill would work well. Just stay away from lots of spices or acidic content. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Like an orb of sunlight sparkling in your glass she dances in erotic graceful swirls and swells. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>is the scent of orchard blossoms wafting in the summer air over ripened apricot preserves on fresh baked yellow cake.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Soft tropical papaya awakens the senses then gives way to burnt caramel and butterscotch that blend into her creamy texture. A long wet finish clings to your lips like a menage of kisses from dream time lovers.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>She has a smooth creamy texture livened by alcohol and animating an ever so slender and elegant body. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>If you like a crisp bitchy chardonnay like I Don't, then you will have to look elsewhere. This wine is warm and approachable; a chardonnay that gives hugs and love. If you as I do wish a buttery rich naked expression on the tongue then you would do well to choose this wine… what, too much?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grapes: </b>94% Merlot, 6% Malbec</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>California>Napa</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>6/15/15</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I thought it was late but the sun was standing still in the sky. That’s when the dreaming laid me down. A unicorn I had recently spent some time with kept crossing my path like future echoes of inspiration now. Upon waking, my inner muse brought on a late night of wine and poetry. Later came the singing and the scent of hyacinth from a past life where Enchanted Forest Road meets Lovers Lane. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Banish all obstacles to joyous living and embrace the rainbows before you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>A strong athletic build with slow hearty legs become her. If you gaze into her eyes you'll be seduced into a pool of deep glowing pomegranate, hypnotizing and rich in character. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Bright red fruit laced with black licorice and pencil lead. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Fruit forward and juicy with cassis and plum. Coffee mingles with vanilla in a pool of soft gentle tannins. Finishes long, rich and quenching.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Full bodied and smooth as silk. All elements of sugar, acid, alcohol and tannin complement one another to produce a well structured lovely lady of a wine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>I could not believe how good this wine was as the price was so very low (on sale at $5/blt, what a bargain!). I shouldn't tell you this because you'll go buy it all up, but I found it at Pattee Creek Market in Missoula. Just leave me a couple bottles, ok? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the back of the bottle: </b>The Age of Aquarius has come and gone, but some things never go out of style. Like flowers, peace and a nice glass of Merlot. Let's take a moment to toast the sisters who march on to the beat of a different drummer. Nobody stays forever young. But you will always be forever cool. And for that, we salute you. Sip on!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Grapes:</b> 50% Malbec 50% Syrah<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Vintage: </b>13’</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Region: </b>Argentina>Mendoza’s East Valley and Uco Valley</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>5/15/15, make a wish.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Matambre Arrollado</a>, That was quite a production but well worth the effort. I’d recommend you have the butcher flatten that flank steak for you if you can, otherwise it’s pound baby pound… for a very long time to get it thinned down. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s a food friendly wine and would go well with a nice antipasto spread, a large variety of cheeses, grilled red meats and things of that nature. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Slow voluptuous legs move down viscous rolling hills in the fascinating world inside your balloon glass. A swirly deep garnet and purple flower blossoms in full beauty when held to the light.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Ripe dark fruit, oak, and wet sandy beach combine in a powerful punch to the snoot.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Juicy plum and dark berries radiate through your senses giving pause for ponder. Spanky old leather whips snap with a tobacco patina while back pepper and fresh cut grass move throughout the cocoa dusted clouds of tannin, soft and understated. Finishes long and luscious with subtle notes of creosote on the exhale. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Acid over sugar sings high and strong. She’s a little hot coming out of the bottle so let her breathe and warm up her voice first. Tannins light a variable. With such a smooth velvety texture, I’d say she’s probably into mellow jazz. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Comments: </b>If this wine were a woman she’d be a lusty lounge singer in a dimly lit sad piano bar. She’s Filled with secrets as all good singers are. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>Sagelands Cabernet Sauvignon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Washington State>Columbia Valley</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>I was so tired from swatting the flies of past injustices that I finally just put up a psychic fly zapper and moved my focus to the setting sun. That’s better. I laid my Bob Marley beach towel over a garage sale lawn lounger then set a shovel and pail of sand at my side, because you never know when the ocean might drop by. A little blue blow up kiddy pool with bright orange Nemo’s on it was sitting just over there for occasional cool offs. Eyes closed under dark glasses I grounded myself and welcomed the great Dionysus to flow into me and carry my useless baggage into the horizon, never to return. Naked, free, starting over.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">My pasta salad</a>. It would be great with grilled red meats, Lamb or other kinds of roasts, herby red stuff (or herby green stuff), Stilton and a wide range of cheeses, and of course good dark chocolate. A very food friendly wine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Viscous and leggy on the glass which is filled with glowing Lambert red cherry and clear ruby glistenings.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>The pungent perfume of rose and cherry cotton candy on the snoot inspires memories of that one time we did that weird thing together.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>It’s sooo Big! Fruit forward with a lattice of basil and chocolate caressed by wet cedar, expanding. Soft round tannins ride through subtle leather tunnels in a long luscious finish. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Sugar over acid but still nice and dry. Tannins chime in as cushy round accent notes; alcohol smooth and dreamy. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Nothing like dusting off the classics. This is a reminder of how satisfying and comforting Cabernet can be. It was like listening to Chris Cornell, Ann Wilson, and Eddie Vedder harmonize in my head. A taste of the Divine to be sure.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you Catie for turning me on to such a great wine.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>Tridente tempranillo</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Spain>Castilla y Leon>Vino do la tierra</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">May you breathe and blossom in freedom and love. Salud!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b>It was perfect with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/allrecipes.com%20http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Viva-Madrid-Spanish-Chicken/Detail.aspx?evt19=1&referringHubId=726">Viva Madrid Spanish Chicken</a>. Give it some spice and even a hint of sweet. Dark chocolate, yes. Bleu cheese, oh ya. Stay away from creamy sauces and more subtle delicate flavors. This wine needs a little challenge to bring out its best. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Black violet hues pour liquid velvet into your glass. Legs of a warrior, strong and defined. He moves with all the control and grace of Nureyev. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Pheromones of juicy plum, rich soil and wet wood. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>The first sip is like kissing a god. The second sip is like drinking one. Taste is full of musky warm black current, cracked peppercorn and cocoa powder. A big solid mouthful of pleasure. Finish rides long and sweet on a river of soft chewy tannins. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Very well balanced; dry and beautiful. Spice over fruit; acid over sugars but remarkably smooth and full. With a 16% alcohol he's pretty smokin' hot so let him breathe for a while before the dance begins. Tannins are plentiful, chewy and satisfying. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You will Love this wine. I'm going to need cases of it so please send money. Oh, you should probably buy some for yourself as well, but I cannot guarantee you that will not make me jealous.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maraia Barbera del Monferrato 13'</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>Maraia Barbera del Monferrato</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grape: </b>100% Barbera</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Producer: </b>Marchesi di Barolo</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Vintage: </b>13'</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Italy>Piedmont</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted:</b> 4/1/15</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a></b> Contemplating the upcoming seed moon and with an air of optimism, I sipped this light and lovely wine and sent visions of health and beauty out to the universe that it might send them back to me tenfold. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Have you ever felt that you've just emerged from a cocoon, wings all wet and heavy but beautiful and filled with the inspiring potential of flight? That's where I was when I tasted this wine, grateful for every breath I took, and every movement I could make. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b>I had it with <a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Mushroom Bolognese on tagliatelle pasta</a>. It was fabulous! Due to the high and bright acidity of this wine, best stay away from rich buttery cream sauces and the like. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>A red rainbow of pure pomegranate with glowing violet refractions. She has a thin body and slow forming bulbous legs. It's like watching a gentle spring rain stream down weeping windows. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot:</b> A powerful bouquet of wild flowers and cherry cotton candy.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Bright juicy raspberry and a little pie cherry give her honest beauty and elegance. Proudly naked she wears only a halo of star anise and bathes in a cold mountain stream running over minerals and stone. Finish is full and quenching if not a little fast. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>A nice medium/light well balanced experience with brilliant shining acids; no residual sugars; lively alcohol and minimal tannins. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments:</b> Life is not about living up to expectations, yours or anyone else's. Life is about perceiving and collecting experiences; being observant and curious; forming your own thoughts and ideas. You were not put here to do and think what you are told. You Chose to be in human form that you might express the divine intelligence that is uniquely and eternally part of you. This form is capable of great accomplishments, and these senses are capable of filling you with immeasurable joy. As far as I'm concerned, "the <i>wine</i> alone was worth the trip"<i>.</i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>(twist on a quote from the movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-PAX_(film)">K-PAX</a>... just the bit in "quotes", the rest is all mine)</i></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine Comments: </b>It's a light and quenching mouthful. A good spring and summer wine. Throw a bottle in your picnic basket with a nice antipasto spread and go have a memorable experience with a good friend.</span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To being happy and free, cin cin.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grapes: </b>Grenache (55%), Syrah (25%), Carignan (10%), Cinsault (5%), Mourvedre (5%)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Vintage: </b>12'</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>France>Rhone>Southern Rhone>Cotes du Rhone</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: I</b> was welcoming in 2015... and I don't mean to alarm you, but I think we are being followed. Stay quiet and keep to the shadows like I do; a painted naked warrior. Grab that bottle of wine and come with me. We are going to a land where there is still such a thing as privacy, empathy, and love. You and I will find our way now to the blessed garden where the air is manufactured by the mother herself. A place where the sea and the earth are clean healthy and strong. We will travel to where the true balance of nature once again is respected and adored by whatever superior species replaces the evil ones, before they do any more damage. As we ascend to meet them, we are becoming.... better beings. A toast to a better world and a more real tomorrow; image be damned!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It's a nice wine to go with all your favorite winter time comfort foods, such as hearty stews, shepherd's pie, pasta, pizza, <a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">steak au poivre</a>, venison, and a wide range of cheeses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Her soft round body hugs your glass while long royal statuesque legs stream in perfect unison back down into a delicious puddle of brilliant liquid ruby light; beautiful<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>A mouthful of soft blueberry; herby and interesting with a spank of pepper and just a hint of oak. Long slow finish of posh spice, fruit, and lots of luscious dry tannins.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>This wine was created with love and then blessed by the spirit of Dionysus himself..... you can just tell. What a great wine to start the new year with. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Region: </b>Italy>Veneto>Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>I could hear birds chirping over the sound of busses and shuffling shoes. Bells ringing outside store fronts with Santas attached to them struck a note of nostalgia in me where a smile broke lose from it's captive pain. The chorus of chatter from flocks of people in the streets was filled with a joyful sort of chaos. As I focused on the similarities between the sounds of people and the sounds of birds in collective unison, time slowed down enough for me to see, to hear, to experience something more complete than the fragments of funhouse mirrors that too often reflect distorted ideas about the world around me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May your consciousness be filled with the naked truth, your heart be full with compassion, and your spirit free to fly to the destinations of your wildest imagination. Salude!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Mandala hors d oeuvre plates</a>. It would be wonderful with any subtle elegant seafood such as clams, mussels, oysters, scallops or lobster. Also caviar, smoked saLmon, chicken, and things in rich buttery cream sauces would complement nicely. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Appearance:</b> Twinkles like starlight in your glass, pale and clear with tight bubbles soaring in beautifully choreographed movement like a tiny liquid universe.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Ripe fragrant pear and citrus with a lily of the valley halo.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Bright apple and sweet grapefruit combine with gentle hugs of honeysuckle carmel. Wet mineral over cold stone stroke the edges of the palate until a crisp clean finish releases the senses from the pitter patter of tiny bubbles that fascinate and captivate throughout.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Perfectly balanced. Light bodied, dry and smooth with plentiful sparkling little bubbles.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Honey, I Loved it! It is special occasion worthy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With New Years is just around the corner I'd like to wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015. Cin Cin</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>Domaine Lafage Cuvee Nicolas</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>France>Languedoc-Roussillon >Roussillon>Vin de Pays des Côtes Catalanes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I had spent the day rollerskating through <a href="http://www.flintstonesbedrockcity.com/">Flintstone Land</a> wearing my new lederhosen. The ghost of my goldfish, Freddie, led me down various paths past curious children and giant waving Fred and Barney's. I waved back, Freddie did a little dance, and we giggled all the way home. What better at the end of a fun day like that than a nice bottle of French wine? </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Firm naked body with thick beautiful legs draped in a gown of dark luminous pomegranate. Nice.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>is the scent of fresh berries mingling with the distinct aroma of lilacs and roses.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Bursting with jammy raspberry, sweet spice, and a soft whisper of Dutch licorice. Finish is long and full with jazzy tones of smoke and earth over juicy red fruit and dusty tannins.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Medium body with soft alcohol, lively acids, minimal sugars, and warm subtle tannins.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>I love this wine! She has simple elegance and grace. Go get yourself a bottle or two, you won’t be disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Producer: </b>Ernesto Catena Selections Winery</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Vintage: </b>13'</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Argentina>Mendoza</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Price: </b>11.00</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>11/21/14</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I was somewhere not being me, hanging out with you when you were Uri Geller. You kept bending spoons for wine in the local bars. Everywhere we went they had Padrillos Malbec. I quite liked it and so wrote my tasting notes on a bar napkin after 'glass zero' then found it crumpled up at the bottom of my purse the next day. This review is a result of that blurrily productive evening.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Coiled Children Playing with Eggs</a>, trust me. As food friendly as a wine can be, she pairs well with hors d' oeuvres & cheeses of all kind, red meats, lamb, game, pork, and things of that nature (even gentle enough to serve with turkey :)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>She has elegant naked legs and svelte medium body draped in a gown of inky purple that dances around my glass, while sparkling ruby eyes wink and flirt. Very pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Wildflower, pipe tobacco, and bramble patch combine in a breath of long lost memories; sad misplaced poets wandering in summertime meadows. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Current black and berry too, smooth and dry the more you chew; vintage leather and tobacco cast, soft gentle tannins with a finish juicy and fast. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(end rhyme mode) Sorry about that, it just happened.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance:</b> She's well balanced and holds together nicely. Fruity and smooth if a little shy on tannin; enough acid and alcohol content to keep a lively spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>This is a good everyday drinking wine. Her food friendly qualities, beautiful appearance, and all around likable nature also make her an excellent contribution to holiday gatherings.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>I was in a comforting bubble of soft blue light floating around a dusty naked moon and making up slogans for cocktail napkins... </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Slow bulbous legs form as she gently peals from the glass like melting plastic wrap... fun to watch. She swims in opaque tones of garnet swirled around a glowing light of dark pumpkin orange. Very pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Welcome a strong punch to the snoot filled with sweet fruit, wet grass and Dutch black licorice; so good I'd call it aromatherapy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Ripe bursts of cherry, mineral, and star anise mingling with earthy mushroom and a hint of vanilla are immediately revealed. She's a mouthful of big velvety smoothness. Finish is long, hot, and juicy with fine plush tannins throughout. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Sugar to acid ratio are even and complementary along with soft luscious tannins and heady alcohol, all well integrated into a beautiful structure. Just admire and let her breath a bit before diving in. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Complex, interesting, and strong in character. An all around perfect wine. I loved it.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354515256229452117.post-19737872580835659122014-10-23T09:31:00.002-07:002015-12-25T07:52:46.931-08:00Comoloco Monastrell 12'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine:</b> Comoloco </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grape: </b>Monastrell (Mourvedre)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Spain>Murcia>Jumilla</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I was watching this goddess on a tigers back chasing down an evil <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting">tyrant</a>. "Run kitty, run" I thought to myself. "MA DURGA MA! Ha Ha Ha", that <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/041559_Monsanto_GMOs_lies.html#">tyrant</a> was toast. Good, I hate <a href="http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ex-military-bio-environmental-engineer-kristen-meghan-blows-whistle-on-air-force-chemtrails/">tyrants</a>. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/047331_Obama_Administration_press_pool_journalists.html">Tyrants </a>really suck. I just can't think of enough bad things to say about evil <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant">tyrannical</a> forces. On the up side, I cant' think of anything bad to say about this lovely bottle of wine. She sings like a siren beckoning your thirsty ship to the reef of eternal bliss. I'm goin' in, what the hell? Smoke em' if you got em' boyeeez.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Baghdad Beef(<b>Lamb)</b> Stew</a>. A food friendly wine to be enjoyed with such things as grilled meats, lamb, venison, hearty stews, herby red sauced stuff, antipasto, and medium to bold cheeses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Ruby red lit with a violet black light. She's a vision to behold. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Bold pungent hyacinth with ripe fruit and catnip. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>A comforting burst of jammy plum and cherry with cracked pepper and sassafras mingle in her aura presenting a wise and exotic demeanor. Soft tannins embrace the tongue as gentle fruit, spice, and herb cascade gracefully through an extended four point finish. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Well balanced with good solid structure. Sparkling acid faeries generate energy around a sweet cherry center. Tannins are soft and minimal. Alcohol high but not offensive. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Spanish wines seldom disappoint me and this one is no exception to the rule. I loved it. Good wine, good price, good times. Salud! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354515256229452117.post-1432049139222004272014-10-08T13:15:00.004-07:002014-10-08T13:28:51.660-07:00The Reveler Red Cuvee 10'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grapes: </b>42% Cabernet Franc, 29% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Producer: </b>Revelry Vintners </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>I was on a carousel embracing the sounds and the daydream of time passing. We started fresh and you followed me like music trying to catch up. No wait, I was sitting on the roof of my house listening to the traffic and pretending it was a river and blowing those kid bubbles from a pink plastic bubble holder while I waited for you. No not that, it was midnight and I knew you were coming because you were next in my appointment book. I looked up and the full round moon rolled up and down my spine as I sipped wine in serenity, realizing that I was really kind of everywhere, and I wasn't actually waiting at all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b>Paired perfectly with <a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Pepper Steak on rice</a>. It's really good, really easy, and you should really try it (replace steak with eggplant or firm tofu if you don't care for meat). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She's a bold wine that pairs well with herby or spicy foods. Lamb, game, grilled meats, red sauced pasta dishes, antipasto, bleu and other strong cheeses, and of course dark chocolate would all be nice with this one. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Deep purple aubergine in a luminous ruby light that leaves a viscous coat of liquid velvet followed by lovely slow naked legs running down the inside of your glass. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>The breath of a goddess exhaling an intoxicating perfume of rose petals and ripe blackberry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>A dry yet full kiss of earth and oak opening into a more berry and black current mouthful with lingering notes of basil and tobacco that follow through a slow finish that rides over rolling hills of posh tannins.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>She's composed and beautifully balanced; very dry with no residual sugars and plentiful yet not overpowering tannins.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>This wine is a little hot right out of the bottle so let breathe a while or decant first. Having said that I must admit I enjoyed experiencing the entire journey, from hot beginning to soft blended finish. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>les Moirets<b> </b>Cotes du Rhone</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grapes: </b>Syrah, Grenache Noir, Mourvedre <b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>France>Rhone>Cote du Rhone>Controlee</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>9/22/14</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>The day had kissed the night at exactly the same hour as the night kissed the day. I think they are enchanted with one another. Something inside me felt a calm sense of balance and an ocean blossomed on the north side of my heart where the moss grows. As I sipped and gazed distantly through a window into my happy place I felt complete satisfaction and a profound gratitude for having experienced paradise so many times.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Quick Stuffed Tomatoes</a>. A very food friendly wine. Just avoid heavy spices that may overpower her more subtle nature (herby ok). All cheeses, good; veggies, very good; herby pasta and even Fettuccine Alfredo...all good. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Light glowing garnet with pretty orange rusty edges.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>The pleasant, very subtle scent of fruit and wood. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>The distant flavor of some kind of fruit. Is it raspberry or sour cherry? Whatever it is it takes on a vanilla note as it presents in a velvety mouthful. Soft, unfocused tannins twinkle randomly in the background. Finish is quick, light, and refreshing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Slight bodied with just a few very skinny legs. It has no residual sugars (which we like), mellow acids, alcohol high but not too hot, and soft astral tannins. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>A good easy drinking anytime wine; nice to have around as it goes with so many foods.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Spain>Calatayud</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>9/7/14</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>Saturated in full moon madness I was sitting in a bar with Ganesha drinking garnasha and eating ganache. All I could think was 'oh shit, if one side doesn't get me, the other one will'. Guilt, sex, wine, chocolate cake, yoga, Metatron, Ganesha, the faeries, pineapple express, obsessive self discipline... where does this recipe end, and what kind of image does it bake up to be? I mean, can you even comprehend a chocolate covered organic magic carrot salad? Well, maybe YOU can.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then Ganesha said to me, "Image is nothing more than an obstacle that blocks truth". That's all he said... well that and that he was going to go bathe in the river tomorrow. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It would also go well with grilled meats, venison, lamb roast, herby pasta or vegetable dishes and strong cheeses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Sparkling clear ruby red with a violet aura.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>A strong sweet bouquet of wild flowers, cherry cotton candy, and pine cones.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Sweet dark cherry lovingly stroked by mulling spices and fresh cracked pepper give a welcoming naked embrace while a deeper consciousness of her beauty blossoms in a incandescent glow of fresh rain and oak until you are so full with delicious wine flavor you could just burst. Then she brings the experience in for a landing on a lingering mellow fruit runway brushed with dusty tannins and cocoa. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now go ahead and blush, enjoy the afterglow, and repeat the experience.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>She paints her color, thick and pretty all over the insides of your glass while allowing the weight of her long luscious legs to run slowly through it. Her subtle sugars, nice acid content, high yet smooth alcohol level, and fine feather dusty tannins complete a perfectly balanced and beautiful wine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>She's a mouthful of pure splendor. I plan on keeping this one around for a while. I may even put a bottle in my Teotwawki bug out bag. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Washington>Columbia Valley>Prosser</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>7/27/14</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>: </b>It was a hot summers day and waves of sunshine were bouncing off a high mountain lake making it sparkle like glitter. All... ok well some of the good people in Tuffit Town were gathering up their crawdads to train for the big race later. I wandered in quiet observation like a contented ghost with no attachments but to the nature of being, and to the nature of nature. What a perfect place to taste the wine!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Apricot marinated grilled chicken breast</a>, baked potato and a side salad... Nice! Would be great with summer salads, fresh fish, fruit and soft delicate cheeses. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Ethereal happy faeries dancing on golden liquid sunshine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Honeysuckle and pear embrace to create a gentle and enchanting perfume. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Crisp and fruity on impact with citrus notes of clear high soprano. Green apple and pear combine with salted caramel and ride out like Lady Godiva on a clean naked finish bathed in splashes of cool minerals.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>A beautiful balance of spring meadows, rocky waterfalls, and fresh orchard fruits. If you like a crisp chardonnay, then you'll surely appreciate this light and refreshing wine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Good hot weather summer wine. Another pretty girl from Washington State. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Wine: </b>Coronas Tempranillo Red Wine</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grapes: </b>Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Spain>Catalunya </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Date tasted: </b>7/25/14</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted:</a> </b>I was floating on my back in a hot springs enjoying the Earths most sensuous element with calm surrender. Suddenly a couple of wispy clouds moved in a shameless dance of copulation across the periwinkle sky above me. I rose up to the edge where gentle breezes stroked and cooled, and the taste of an endearing red wine satisfied the whole of my senses. A deep breath blew into me and I received it like a warm embrace, feeling richly blessed and grateful. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>A deep glowing liquid gem of red garnet brilliance fills your glass and dazzles your vision. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>Plump fruit hanging fat on the tree; breezing with the scent of a lake side orchard and wet willow branches.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Flavors of big cherry and ripe plum mingle with woody earth and cardamom pods. Dry and soft with cocoa dusted tannins that blend without overpowering. A long virile finish fills the mouth fully then lingers in a naked afterglow of unique and exotic expression. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance: </b>Perfect. Very slight on sugars; acid quite gentle and understated though nice and dry. Although the alcohol is 14% it's not too hot and does not need extensive breathing time. Tannins are soft, plentiful and polished. Shapley legs cascade down the glass in patterns of unique form.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>Poetry in a glass. I love the touch of cabernet which hangs like priceless jewels on an already beautiful being of pure royalty. Need more. MORE! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Rating: 4 tipsys, excellent value… omg, really really good.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Grape: </b>Mencia</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Producer: </b>Jorge Ordonez Group</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Region: </b>Spain>Castilla y Leon>Vino de la Tierra de Castilla y Leon</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/poems-dreams-and-pics.html">Place tasted</a>:</b>I was watching the ants moving around on concrete by my home where the 94 degree sunlight beat down on their freshly built domiciles. They seemed unaffected by the heat and in fact pretty happy about the whole thing. I guess that's where the expression 'happy as an ant' came from. Anyway, I couldn't help but wonder as I slowly chewed my wine from a nice shady vantage point, do ants sweat?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Served with: </b><a href="http://thewinewitch.blogspot.com/p/food-wine-pairing-recipes.html">Mint Crusted Rack of Lamb</a> (on smashed potatoes), which was easy to make and so good I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It is an excellent choice with this wine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Appearance: </b>Like the naked silhouette of a beautiful woman dancing freely and draped in violet silks, almost completely hidden in the inky black night.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>On the snoot: </b>The scent of a chiseled hot sweaty man picking the blackberries he found growing near an old abandoned railroad track...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">in other words, berry, testosterone and creosote, a heady, provocative cologne. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Taste: </b>Ripe black current warms in layers of licorice spice nutmeg and peppercorn softened by herby catnip. Finish darns a long flowing gown of tannin with the sticky patina of tobacco and soft oak. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Balance:</b> Robust body and long legs that show great enthusiasm as they go running down the sides of your lucky glass. Kind of hot out of the bottle so let her breathe for a couple of hours after opening so the flavors can warm and blossom. Tempered acids, almost no residual sugar, and a plethora of warm fuzzy tannins make for a firm, balanced structure. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Comments: </b>She's full of character with many layers of flavor that compliment one another beautifully. My first impression was 'wow, this reminds me of Pinotage', which is one of my favorite wines. With all that tar and the dirty trolls feet, it was love at first taste. </span></div>
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