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Showing posts with label Central Coast wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Coast wine. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2024

Don't Call This Chardonnay Cheap - Call It Affordable

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Grocery chain Trader Joe's is a place you learn to love very quickly. Nice prices on things like wine, beer, cheese and nuts are fine, b...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Foxglove Chardonnay

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The Foxglove 2018 Central Coast Chardonnay was bottled by Varner Wines, in San Miguel, CA.  Jim and Bob Varner produce handmade wine from g...
Monday, July 15, 2019

CA Négociant Delivers Great Rosé At A Bargain

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California wine négociant Cameron Hughes owns no vineyards and has no official winery.  He buys already produced wine from established ma...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Three Wineries For The Price Of One

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There's a three-way wine tasting room in San Luis Obispo.  Baileyana , Tangent and True Myth all show off their wines in a little ye...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Central Coast Pinot Noir; Weighty, Wonderful

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The Claiborne and Churchill label is 35 years old this year.  The winery is located in the heart of the beautiful Edna Valley, just outsi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Pink Wine In A Moose Can

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Randall Grahm 's Bonny Doon Vineyard is a serious wine company.  He's a serious winemaker who makes serious wines.  His sense of ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Two Wonderful White Wines

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It’s always nice to discover a casual place with a carefully curated wine list. With a few minutes to kill in downtown Los Angeles, I look...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Pushing The Syrah Envelope

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Winemaker Randall Grahm notes on the Le Pousseur label that Syrah's aroma will stay with you a long time. "One will wander the w...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Le Cigare Volant Réserve 2011

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The Réserve version of Randall Grahm ’s flagship wine is aged en bonbonnes , which means it is aged not in oak but in glass carboys, or, l...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Bonny Doon Pushes Syrah Value

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Bonny Doon’s chief, Randall Grahm , sums up his career in one paragraph, quite a feat for a guy who seemingly has never summed up anything...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Summer Wine: Bonny Doon Vin Gris De Cigare

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Summer is generally considered rosé time, although I have noted - many times before - that it will serve us well any time of year. I alway...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

A Pair Of Cigares

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It is sometimes remarkable to taste the same wine from different vintages back to back. In the case of Bonny Doon Vineyards ’ Le Cigare Vo...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Who Do You Have To Know To Get A Proper Claret Around Here?

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Reginald ffrench-Postalthwaite is billed as the alter ego of the beloved, quixotic, notorious Bonny Doon winemaker Randall Grahm . His f...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Sparkling Syrah Shows Magnified Flavors And Aromas

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Bonny Doon Vineyards ' owner and winemaker Randall Grahm has made sparkling wine from Riesling, Albariño and Moscato grapes - not to ...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Cimarone Wines' 3CV Bank 2012 Red Blend

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Cimarone Wines and Three Creek Vineyard were the 2001 “retirement project” of Roger and Priscilla Higgins .  Those who know how difficult...