Masi Costasera Amarone 2001 Amarone is a big, fairly expensive, red wine from Italy that matches with a fairly small variety of foods. Although, if braised beef cheeks, lamb steaks, venison stew, or similarly gamey dishes are frequent in your home, you may disagree. Since I almost always drink wine with food as a rule, [...]
Franciscan Oakville Chardonnay Cuvee Sauvage 2005 Generally speaking, I’m against the majority of California Chardonnay on the market — but not against ALL California Chards. What bugs me is the proliferation of formulaic, oak-driven “soda-pop” Chards that taste more like Sugar Smacks than fermented grapes. The bulk of these disasters in a bottle are in [...]
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