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I’m suffering from something of a “wine whiplash” today- a term we cleverly invented last night to describe the drastic switch from all my delicate, refreshing summer white picks of the last few weeks to this week’s pick- the gargantuan behemoth of a wine that is Michael David’s ‘Petite Petit.’ A very cool blend of 85% Petite Sirah and 15% Petit Verdot from the Lodi region of California.

This wine has been something of a showstopper for the last few weeks at Cellar and Mr. Frie

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Yes, that’s right- another Rose. Two weeks in a row. I wasn’t kidding
when I said I was going to drink Rose every day until Spring decides to
stay. Today was nice, but I’m still holding out for a nice 70
degrees. You may as well know- I go through phases a lot, and right
now I’m in a Rose phase. Call it the phase, call it whatever, BUT the
Mulderbosch Rose and this Domaine de Nizas Rose from Languedoc (aka The
‘Doc) are two of the BEST wines I’ve had recently- and they’re as
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Welcome to another edition of Wine Snobbery! It is not noon, for once, as I write this- it is about 10:30 and I’m enjoying my post-work ritual which involves listening to laundry dry while I half-watch
something bad on television. Tonight it is “16 and Pregnant.” There
are so many things I could say about this show, but I will leave it at-
don’t be a hater- you know it’s addictive. Besides, I have a few brain
cells to spare.

Let me start by saying that I am extremely ready

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This post might only hit home to a few of you. If you just happened to stumble into my blog from a search engine, you might find another review that is more informative elsewhere. That’s fine. But if you
care to read on, I will of course touch on how great this wine is,
share a few tasting notes, and give it my ringing endorsement. It’s
awesome. It’s an amazing value at $12. It got 90 points from Wine
Spectator, and was the number 62 wine of last year. It rocks!

But I also

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Once again I find myself sipping wine at a fairly uncivilized hour. This is becoming a pattern. Today it’s not even noon! But really, I am just sipping a sip or two to refresh my memory on this wine, as I have sipped on several glasses at more normal sipping times during the past week. As I often say to the staff at Cellar, I am “revisiting” this wine this morning. “Revisit” is a term I invented when for there are no official “new” wines to taste, but we are in need of a, as Stump Johnson would… Continue