Chilean wine has had a French accent since Bordeaux wine makers fled to Chile to escape the phylloxera vineyard plague in the late 1800s.
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A throwback to Chile’s wine foundations, Viña Maitia Aupa Pipeño is a traditional blend of 80% País (Mission) with 20% Carignan made in the 400-year-old Chilean pipeño process. Ruby color, clear and rather light, it has a fresh, appealing scent of red cherries, raspberries, and pomegranate, with subtle notes of mint and fennel.
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Long ago, when Baby Boomers were young, we thought wine was stuffy, snobbish, and expensive. But then we took another look, and everything changed!
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Stick a star on the map of Italy to highlight the most sought-after wines, and you’ll likely post it in the north and northwest: Tuscany or Piemonte.
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Clear garnet Vigna Del Lauro Cabernet Franc offers fresh, if relatively simple, scents of dried cherries, black pepper, and hints of plums and pomegranate. Good black fruit flavors carry over on the palate in pleasing fruit character, fragrant pepper, and refreshing acidity.
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It’s Valentine’s Day, a romantic time when many celebrate their loved ones with chocolates, flowers, a fancy meal, sweet words, and very good wine!
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Stolpman Vineyards employs its dedicated, passionate vineyard workers year-round. In an effort to provide further stability to their families, the crew “La Cuadrilla” receives the profits of their wine.
Dark reddish-purple with a bright garnet edge, Stolpman La Quadrilla starts with a floral blast of freshly ground black pepper on the nose, quickly joined by notes of black cherries and blackberries and a hint of tobacco leaf. All that delight comes together in a bright, ripe but balanced flavor framed by food-friendly acidity, lingering with palatable tannins in a very long finish.
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Will I ever stop looking for good wine bargains that don’t mess with my budget? Absolutely not! Here’s one now, a tasty red blend from Argentina.
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Malbec-dominant Alamos 2021 Mendoza Red Blend is a dark ruby-purple color in the glass, offering juicy red-plum aromas backed by blackberry and a spicy-smoky back note a quick six-month stay in French and American oak barrels imparts. Brisk acidity and soft tannins surround a ripe berry and plum flavor, with hints of tobacco and black pepper joining a long finish.
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Second verse, same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse. Yep, wine tariffs are coming back, and the world of wine isn’t happy.
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