Remember the Wine of Chile online tasting post I did months ago? No, well, just click here if you missed out on that one. It wasn’t too long after that that I received some free samples (and an offer that I responded to, but somehow lost touch with that person…who was my old WSET...
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2009 has finally gone. To finish off the year, we had a quite evening at home with a couple of friends, some delicious wines and awesome food. We started with appetizers of shrimp cocktail; smoked salmon salad; and the most decadent brie I’ve ever had (sorry, I forget the name, but the texture was...
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Carménère is the star of this tasting and I think she took everyone by surprise, ala Robert Downey Jr. did in Ironman. Of course, you have probably heard the story of this particular grape and how it is called the lost grape of Bordeaux. Blah, blah, blah. It doesn’t matter and if it really...
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Carmen who? You know what, I’m wasn’t really sure how to pronounce it either, so I Googled it. Well, that didn’t really help since there were multiple answers. So, I reached out to a recently made acquaintance who I thought would know and turns out, the correct pronunciation is Car-men-yair (rhymes with hair). Who...
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