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A very nice rosé from South Africa. This beautiful salmon-colored wine has fresh aromas of strawberries and earth with crisp flavors of strawberries and soil with a hint of alcohol on the finish. It's quite versatile with food -- match it with anything from grilled meats to a salad of mixed greens.
The word "rustic" comes to mind with this Spanish wine. It's a big, leathery red wine with lots of rugged spirit. It has earthy cherry flavors with slight chalky chocolate tones and leather aromas. Its 14.5% alcohol level is pretty well managed, but you can still get a little burn as well. This is a great wine for grilled beef -- whether that's a nice steak of a burger. Better with food than on its own.
Cabernet Sauvignon makes an intriguing rose in the right hands. You get the complexity and character of the Cabernet grape delivered in a light, refreshing way. This Argentinian rose has crisp strawberry and cherry flavors with some earthiness. Perfect with or without food. A pink wine with gravitas.
While we think any season is perfect for a dry pink wine, spring and summer are when most people drink them in earnest. This Spanish rose is bone dry, yet has enough fruitiness to make it refreshing whether you drink it on its own or enjoy it with food. Nice light cherry flavors with hints of mineral.
Bogle 2006 Reserve Clarksburg Riesling. $12.00
This is about as perfect a dry American Riesling as you'll find. Lush floral aromas and flavors balanced by a nice tart acidity and wonderful complexity. As it warms a little you get some pink grapefruit and a slight hint of white pepper in the finish instead of the usual increase in sweetness. A perfect wine for garlic pawns in a hot/sweet sauce or any other spicy food. Perfect.
Here's a perfect house white for spring and summer. Fisheye Pinot Grigio is a soft, refreshing wine with tart lemon flavors and a clean finish. Perfect for lighter fare and a nice wine to enjoy on its own as the weather warms up. Great bargain too.
It's everything a Sauvignon Blanc should be -- crisp and refreshing with balanced flavors of apples, pears and citrus. Delicious and perfect for spring and summer meals. For the first time, Bogle is using the glass VinoSeal instead of cork. It is very easy to open and reseal - a prefect closure for wine.
This inky beauty starts out a little tight. We decanted it and the wine opened up nicely. Aromas of grape, earth and honeysuckle and flavors of blueberries with tight tannins. Excellent with grilled foods.
Who says you have to spend a fortune for a good Bordeaux? This lovely red from Baron Philippe de Rothschild is medium-bodied with lovely fruit and just enough mineral and earth to balance the wine beautifully. Great with food or without.
Pepper and spice (in both the nose and taste) is what stand out in this perfect Spanish red. Great berry flavors with subtle touches of pepper, spice, menthol and nicotine. It's very nice on its own, but with food it transforms into a soft, silky wonder.
This has got to be the best deal on a red wine. For $3.49 you get a nicely complex red wine with a spicy nose and flavors of earthy cherries, tobacco and menthol. Very nice with food and even better with dark chocolate, where it becomes a soft, silky companion to the chocolate's distinct flavors. Great stuff!
"Voluptuous beauty" is the description on the label. This is the softer, silkier brother to the winery's Carmenere Merlot. Beautifully purple with a smoky, blackberry nose, the wine has berry and cherry flavors with a hint of menthol and a silky mouthfeel. Wonderful to sip and excellent with food. You can buy these at Target.
This gorgeous ruby red wine from Chile is an earthy joy. Made from 70% Carmenere and 30% Merlot grapes, the wine has a leathery cherry nose and flavors of smoky, earthy cherries and blackberries. Nicely jammy too. Let it breathe for 10 minutes or so to get the most out of the wine. Excellent with food, too.
This wine has some rough edges up front, but it definitely grows on you. Aromas of cherries with hints of confectioners sugar, menthol and cocoa. The wine has an almost effervescence quality with flavors of smoky cherries, tobacco and oak hints. It's better with food -- prefect for bold pasta and grilled steak.
The winery positions this as an everyday wine. Rustic might be a better term to describe it. A blend of Petite Sirah, Syrah, Grenache, Mouvedre, Cinsault, and Carignane, this wine is better with food. The alcohol (15.5%) is not very well managed and on its own can be harsh, but this wine holds up well with heavy and spicy foods.
This is a nice, earthy, medium-bodied Rioja. It's soft and easy to drink with flavors of berries, herbs and wet leather with light tannins. It's a versatile food wine that will complement meals from seafood (we had it with a garlic prawn salad) to chicken, pizza or burgers. It's a perfect little red house wine.
"While I am filled with 33% more wine than a standard bottle, I am made to be the environmentally responsible alternative to glass. Lighter, more economical and less waste." It takes a lot of self-confidence to serve a wine package in a Tetra Pak, like a kids' juice container, but Three Thieves makes a good point. With 70% of the packaging "comprised of renewable and recycled resources" it makes good sense to sell wine like this. And it's good wine. Soft and sensual with light, refreshing hints of citrus and tropical fruit, it is wonderful to sip on its own and fabulous with food. What's not to like?
A light-to-medium bodied rustic wine with lots of berry flavors, pronounced tannins and mineral. A better food wine than on its own.
Fantastic! This is the kind of wine you buy by the case. It's soft pink color is a beautiful to look at. It has a big nose (for a Rose) of strawberries and flavors of earthy strawberries with a nicely balanced hint of mineral and pepper on the finish. But the thing you notice is its effervescence. It's not a sparkling wine, but it's the next best thing. Get this wine for your Valentines Day dinner.
This is a very nice Spanish wine. It has a wonderful nose of sweet cherries and confectioners sugar. It's a pleasant medium-bodied wine with solid tannins and flavors of cherries and chocolate. Excellent with food as well.
Medium-bodied, flavors of berries, cherries with hints of menthol and wood. Not a great wine, but it grows on you as you drink it and at $6.99, that's not bad.
The fragrance of the wine literally jumps out of the bottle -- big floral aromas of pear, melons and tropical fruit. The wine has a soft, silky texture with flavors of pears, melons, passion fruit and grass with hints of earth and mineral. This is a great wine for spicy food. We served it with a Thai spiced pizza and it was perfect.
Shiraz/Viognier blends are very popular in Australia. The touch of Viognier softens the Shiraz and adds floral fragrances. The Yalumba has big berry aromas with flavors of licorice, berries and plums. The wine is much better with food, which brings out soft tannins and more berry flavors.
This French Cabernet-Shiraz blend (60%/40%) has a remarkably smooth mouthfeel with aromas of earthy cherry cordial and flavors of cherries, leather and Shiraz grape with just a hint of sweetness on the finish. Food brings out the best in the wine, adding complexity and spice. The wine is available at Costco.
Petite indeed. Lighter than other "classic" Petite Sirah, Jewel is medium-bodied with an earthy, smoky, oily leather nose and flavors of sweet prunes (it's not a sweet wine). This wine definitely needs to breathe to open the flavors. Once you get past the notion of big Petites, the wine has a nice drinkability all its own.
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