Winery: Domaine de Beaurenard
Wine: Red Rhône Blend 2005
Location: Côtes du Rhône Villages Rasteau, France
Purchased: The Corkscrew
Price: $17.99

Domaine de Beaurenard’s red Rhône blend is a wine Jonathan and I drank in the past and really enjoyed. I failed to write about it the first time or note the vintage. Although, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a 2005. We were eager to sample this wine again, but I was a little disappointed I didn’t have notes from the first time to compare our tastings.

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Winery: Domaine Gautier
Wine: Red Rhone blend
Location: Fitou, Languedoc, France
Purchased: The Corkscrew
Price: $11.99

This was round two for us with the Domaine Gautier. Our local wine store suggested this wine to us as a, “remarkably smooth and complex wine for a modest price tag.” After tasting the wine for the first time, Jonathan took these notes, “drank with spinach-stuffed chicken…..delicious dusty taste….even better after decanting….definitely plan to have again.” Saturday night we were looking for an easy drinking wine to enjoy while watching a movie and pulled Domaine Gautier from the wine cooler.

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Winery: Bouchard Finlayson
Wine: The Pepper Pot 2008
Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Purchased: The Corkscrew
Price: $14.99

This was one of those spontaneous buys that could have turned out badly. I love bold, spicy wines, and when I saw this one, The Pepper Pot, I grabbed it despite the name and silly pot on the front of the bottle. With a name like The Pepper Pot, it had to be spicy. Right?

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Winery: Viña Palo Alto

Wine: Reserva 2007

Location: Maule Valley, Chile

Purchased: Friar Tuck Beverage

Price: $8.51

 

At a recent wine tasting, Jonathan and I tried Viña Palo Alto Reserva 2007. Neither of us were blown away, what do you expect for $8.00? For the price, we decided to grab a few bottles. If nothing else, it could be our second bottle one evening. Trying to decide what bottle to open one evening, I suggested opening a bottle of the Viña Palo Alto Reserva 2007. I wanted to decant the wine since it was young to see if this would make a difference.

 

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Winery: Bodegas Luzon

Wine: Red Blend 2007

Location: Jumilla, Spain

Purchased: The Corkscrew

Price: $8.99

 

Our immediate reaction to this wine was, “Wow, that’s one of the best wines we’ve had in a while.” Jonathan and I were on a streak of drinking bad or not so great wines for the last two weeks. It was time for a good one! We spotted this one at our favorite wine shop in town for an unbelievable price. We picked it up on a whim because of the price and our recent interest in Spanish wines. After tasting Luzon, it’s one we’ll purchase again.

 

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