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Price: $10 Maker: Joe Blow Wine Cellars (Delicato Vineyards), King City, Pine Canyon & Manteca, California Varietal: Blend of Syrah, Merlot, Petite Sirah, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.6 out of 10 Joe Blow Red is a non-vintage blend of five different grapes: Syrah, Merlot, Petite [...] Price: $17 Maker: Delicato Family Vineyards Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 3 liter box, pushbutton spigot Alcohol: 13.3% Our Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Delicato Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 was another vaguely disappointing offering from a brand that proudly proclaims its list of gold medal awards. The nose is mild but spicy. The flavor is slightly reminiscent [...] Price: $17 Maker: Delicato Family Vineyards Varietal: Shiraz Packaging: 3 liter box, pushbutton spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8 out of 10 Delicato likes to brag about their many gold medals, and one honor for Delicato Shiraz 2005 is that the wine received a “Best Buy” designation from Wine Enthusiast magazine. Our experience with Delicato [...] Here are some of the wineries we have covered here: Barefoot Wines Bogle Bohemian Highway Charles Shaw Delicato FreeRange Funky Llama Gala Rouge Georges Duboeuf Graceland Cellars Infinitus Juno Wine Killer Juice Sebeka Trove Two Buck Chuck [...] WBW #31 was my first Wine Blogging Wednesday as a host, and I really appreciate all of the wine bloggers who took a chance on something unfamiliar – we had people tasting wine from boxes, cans, juice packs… great job, everyone, and sorry if you happened upon a clunker! Thanks, too, to Lenn Thompson for [...] We’ve had a lot of really neat entries for Wine Blogging Wednesday #31, with the theme, “Box Wines & Non-Traditional Packaging.” This was an interesting challenge – some found it easy, while others had difficulty finding a wine that met the criteria but wasn’t the low-end plonk that has traditionally been the mainstay of boxed [...] The San Francisco Chronicle ran an interesting article by W. Blake Gray on Friday, Turn up the game, grab a burger and bust open Wines for Men. It’s all about Syrah. Gray explains why Syrah, or Shiraz if you prefer, is the ideal Man’s Wine: It’s Syrah, known as Shiraz in Australia, a real man’s [...] Price: $17 Maker: Delicato Family Vineyards Varietal: Merlot Packaging: 3 liter box, pushbutton spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 In tasting Delicato Merlot 2005, we seem to have skipped the 2004 vintage. We last tasted Delicato Merlot 2003, and never saw 2004. In any case, the 2005 Merlot is a worthy successor. [...] Price: $17 Maker: Delicato Family Vineyards Varietal: Merlot Packaging: 3 liter box, pushbutton spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 In tasting Delicato Merlot 2005, we seem to have skipped the 2004 vintage. We last tasted Delicato Merlot 2003, and never saw 2004. In any case, the 2005 Merlot is a worthy successor. [...] Price: $16 Maker: Delicato Family Vineyards Varietal: Merlot Packaging: 3 liter box, pushbutton spigot Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 We’ve been tasting mostly bottled wine lately, so it was nice to get back to our first love, boxed wine, by trying Delicato Merlot 2003. We found dark berries, oak, and sweet vanilla [...] |
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