Good Cheap Wine Guide

Red Belly Black Australian Shiraz 2006 $7.99
 
 RANKING: SERVE TO GUESTS
This couldn’t work.  To kill bugs you have to crush them or spray them.  The pheromone baited trap for Japanese beetles just didn’t seem…well…lethal enough.  But the hummingbirds and bees (bees are disappearing from what I read?)were on the same trees and plants that the beetles were [...]

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Red Knot Wine Australian Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

  
Ranking:  Serve Proudly to Guests

I will admit I don’t know much about Australian wines.  Heck just trying to keep up with good cheap wines from California is a full time job.  (Wait, don’t you get paid for a job? hmmm)    But still I picked up this little red at at a [...]

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 Miguel Torres Tormenta 2007 Cabernet Chile

RATING: Good Enough for Uncle Dave
Amazing how small things can really complicate your plans.  The cork, a Chilean cork. Tough cork!  Frustrating cork!  I will burn it when I get it out.
Chile looks like a rugged place.  The country runs 2700 miles down the western coast of South America.  Defined by [...]

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Cycles Gladiator Central Coast 2006 Merlot $9.50

RANKING: Share with Friends
I was watching highlights of the Tour de Drugs, sorry… Tour de France action for the day late at night, I was also working on a presentation that had to be ready in the morning. After seeing a picture of some spectator ringing a [...]

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Santa Cristina 2006 Toscana 90% Sangiovese 10% Merlot

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Here I go writing about Italian wines again but if you are at all familiar with my Wine Quests, you know I get to Italy quite a bit! At least through my wine glass. This is another wine I just really enjoy personally [...]

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