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Price: $10 Origin: Holland Importer: Clever Imports, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Packaging: 750 ml bottle, screw cap Alcohol: 14% ChocoVine‘s label promises, “the taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine.” It looks like a frappucino, or perhaps an Irish cream liqueur in a darker shade. The combination doesn’t sound very promising – I was expecting [...] Price: $16 Maker: Trinchero Family Estates, St. Helena, Napa Valley, California Varietal: Red Blend Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.4 out of 10 [...] Price: $11 Maker: Bogle Vineyards, Graton, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.8 out of 10 I’ve had good luck with Bogle’s inexpensive wines, and Bogle Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 is no exception. It leads with ripe cherries, mixed with tobacco, chocolate, and spice. The finish has rich [...] Price: $11 Maker: Peregrine Hill, Fort Stockton, Texas Varietal: Merlot Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 12% Our Rating: 8.9 out of 10 A Texas Merlot? Peregrine Hill Merlot 2006 is just that, and does the Lone Star state proud. Despite having an unusually low alcohol content for a Merlot, this wine is long [...] Price: $10 Maker: Chateau Diana, Healdsburg, California Varietal: Meritage Packaging: 750 ml bottle Alcohol: 14% Our Rating: 9.1 out of 10 Nine Points Meritage is a sleeper. Not only is it hard to find out any information about Nine Points Winery, but the wine itself is quite bland at first sip. Fortunately, I kept it [...] Price: $12 Maker: Chateau Diana, Healdsburg, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle Alcohol: 13.7% Our Rating: 8.9 out of 10 A name like Seriously Good Wine Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 sets seriously high expectations, even though it’s an inexpensive wine. Seriously, though, this Cab does a reasonable job of living up to [...] Price: $21 Maker: San Marcos Winery, Almendralejo, Extremadura, Spain Varietal: Tempranillo Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.3 out of 10 Slowly but surely, more interesting boxed wines are appearing on store shelves. A good example is Campobarro Tempranillo (non-vintage) from Spain. This is the first Spanish Tempranillo I’ve seen in a box. Like [...] Price: $11 Maker: Kenwood Vineyards, Sonoma County, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 750 ml bottle Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.7 out of 10 At a recent stay at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, I was handed a half-bottle of Kenwood Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 as an amenity of their Joie de Vivre club. [...] Price: $20 Maker: Black Box Wines, Madera, California Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon Packaging: 3-liter box Alcohol: 13.5% Our Rating: 8.9 out of 10 Periodically, we revisit the boxed wine of the ubiquitous Black Box Wines. In the case of Black Box California Cabernet Sauvignon 2007, we’re very glad we did. It’s one of the nicest box [...] Price: $15 Maker: Meridian Vineyards, Paso Robles, California Varietal: Chardonnay Packaging: 750 ml bottle, natural cork Alcohol: 14.1% Our Rating: 9.0 out of 10 I’ve had a bottle of Meridian Santa Barbara County Chardonnay Reserve 2002 stored for a few years, and finally popped its cork. Now, I wish I had found this nice white [...] |
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