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Synopsis, Our Opinion: A good value grocery store Spanish red.

Producer/Winery: Winery A-71058 (Espuela del Gaucho); Maipu Mendoza, Argentina.

Grape Variety: Malbec.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Argentina.

Vintage: 2017

Price: $9.99 (with a 30% mixed 6-pack discount) [click to continue…]

Synopsis, Our Opinion: An EXCELLENT grocery store Rioja that’s a real value.

Producer/Winery: Bodegas Campo Viejo; Fuenmayor, Spain.

Grape Variety: Rioja blend – 85% Tempranillo, 10% Garciano and 5% Mazuelo.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Rioja, Spain.

Vintage: 2013

Price: $9.99 (with a 30% mixed 6-pack discount) [click to continue…]

Synopsis, Our Opinion: It can only be described as OUTSTANDING!!!

Producer/Winery: Rajat Parr & Sashi Moorman; Sandhi Vintners; Lompoc, California.

Grape Variety: Pinot Noir.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Sta. Rita Hills; Central Coast, California.

Vintage: 2016

Price: $38.25 [click to continue…]

Synopsis, Our Opinion: An excellent week night red.

Producer/Winery: Azienda Agricola Poggio di Bortolone; Chiaramonte Gulfi; Sicily, Italy.

Grape Variety: Blend – 40% Frappato and 60% Nero d’Avola.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Cerasuolo di Vittoria; Sicily, Italy.

Vintage: 2017

Price: $17.10 (with a 10% mixed case discount) [click to continue…]

Synopsis, Our Opinion: A GREAT Spanish red.

Producer/Winery: Dolores Caabrera Fernández; Canary Islands,
Spain.

Grape Variety: Listan Negro.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Valle de La Orotava; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Vintage: 2016

Price: $17.10 (with a 10% mixed case discount) [click to continue…]

Synopsis, Our Opinion: A real surprise and a noteworthy fun-loving summer sipper.

Producer/Winery: Matthew Rorick; Forlorn Hope Wines; Murphys, California.

Grape Variety: Zinfandel.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Sienna Foothills; Northern California.

Vintage: 2018

Price: $25.20 (with a 10% mixed case discount) [click to continue…]

Today TastedOnline.com is celebrating it’s seventh anniversary and again during the past year we posted more than 150 new wine reviews. This year we spent a few weeks in Paris and on a Rhone valley riverboat cruise (see Free wine on a river cruise: what you need to know) and there are many reviews of wines we purchased as we traveled. Also, we are drinking more California wines each year as we find more non-traditional California producers¹. [click to continue…]

The Office of United States Trade Representative in a dispute between Airbus and Boeing has requested comments on proposed tariffs to be placed on many products currently being imported into the United States from European countries. This proposal includes up to 100% additional tariffs on bottles of European wine.

The Federal Rulemaking comment period for these additional tariffs is open until January 13, 2020. Comments can be submitted using traditional mail or electronic submissions. Since this rulemaking is so critical to American jobs and healthy price competitiveness of wine, TastedOnline.com strongly encourages every wine drinker and everyone connected to the wine industry to voice their concerns about this flagrant proposed European wine tariff.

Electronic comments can be submitted directly and easily at: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USTR-2019-0003-2518.

Synopsis, Our Opinion: OUTSTANDING Zinfandel.

Producer/Winery: Ridge Vineyards; Healdsburg, California.

Grape Variety: Zinfandel blend- 95% Zinfandel and 5% Petite Sirah.

Geographic Appellation,, Region, Country: Dry Creek valley; Sonoma County, California.

Vintage: 2017

Price: $31.50 (with a Ridge club discount) [click to continue…]