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Price: $19 Maker: Underdog Wine Merchants, Ripon,CA Variety: Pinot Grigio Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 12% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Angel Juice Pinot Grigio is appropriately named – it’s a mild, pleasant wine that some will think is heaven-sent. (After I wrote that line, I found that the winemaker had put similar wording on [...] Price: $7 Maker: Leonard Kreusch, Germany Variety: Merlot Packaging: Bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 11.5% Our Rating: 8 out of 10 Leonard Kreusch Estate Riesling 2005 has a mild spicy pear aroma, and a slightly syrupy mouthfeel. Its flavor notes include pear, apple, and grapefruit, with the latter being most prominent in the finish. This is [...] Wine Blogging Wednesday #29 was a tough assignment. The interesting challenge comes from the Fork & Bottle blog, who suggested the theme of “biodynamic wines.” This was a new one for us… and when we checked with the wine manager at a well-stocked (in the affordable range) local shop it was a new term to [...] Price: $29 Maker: JuiceBox Wine Company, Manchester, MA Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8 out of 10 Free Range Sauvignon Blanc 2005, a box wine from Free Range Wines, is a varietal one doesn’t often see in that kind of packaging. That’s a shame… this Sauvingnon Blanc offers a sweet [...] Price: $29 Maker: JuiceBox Wine Company, Manchester, MA Varietal: Chardonnay Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 12.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Free Range Chardonnay 2005 is another upper-tier boxed wine from Free Range Wines. This Chardonnay has aromas of green apple and citrus. On the palate, it offers an interesting mix of tart apple flavors, [...] Price: $29 Maker: JuiceBox Wine Company, Manchester, MA Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc 50%, Semillon 50% Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 12.5% Our Rating: 8.5 out of 10 Free Range White Bordeaux 2005 is the flagship white wine from Free Range Wines – their other offerings, all boxed wines, include Free Range Red Bordeaux. This wine is a [...] We’ve missed the last few Wine Blogging Wednesdays, and darn near missed this one. Good thing we checked the calendar! This month is the 28th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday, hosted by Culinary Fool with the theme of Sparkling Wines. We had planned to hunt down an interesting sparkling Shiraz for this event, but our [...] Here at Box Wines we’ve been predicting an invasion of quality boxed wines from domestic and foreign producers, and we’re pleased to see one such introduction: Free Range Wines from JuiceBox Wine Company. The new firm isn’t launching in a small way – the current lineup of varietals from Free Range includes Pinot Noir, Merlot, [...] Price: $9 Maker: Easley Winery, Indianapolis, Indiana Varietal: Honey Wine Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Our Rating: 8 out of 10 Mead brings images to mind of medieval feasts, so it was only appropriate that on Thanksgiving we opened a bottle of Easley’s Mead, a wine made from honey. This wine’s color is light [...] A recent trip aboard the Golden Princess featured two separate wine tasting events hosted by the ship’s sommelier staff. The first was less elaborate, and we’ll post on that one here: Errazuriz Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc. This Chilean wine was light in color with excellent clarity and a melon nose. The flavor was a suprisingly [...] |
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