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Vin des Langeron - France
Cost: about $6
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Region: Burgundy, France
With all the holiday bills
to pay, the wine budget's a little low, but inexpensive doesn't have to
mean bad. Here's this little gem, rich, good acidity and great for just
sipping, cooking or pairing with semi hard cheeses and bread.
Life's too short to drink
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Clos del Pinell Blanc 2002
Cost: about $10
Varietal: White Grenache
I have not been this excited about a
white wine in winter since... well, I can't remember. Yummy, pleasing,
multidimensional, crisp ,rich wine. No other way to put it, yummy.
Perfect for appy's and cheese nibbles when putting a meal on the table
is overwhelming. Buy lots, this is great, interesting every day sipping
at it's best.
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Bogle Petite Sirah - California
Cost: about $11
Varietal: Petite Sirah (not to be
confused with Syrah)
Wonderful winter
wine. Ripe, full, smoky concentrated fruit. Notes of leather and
brambleberries. Braised lamb shanks homemade (or not) egg noodles
and a bottle of this, isn't winter great?
Life's too short to drink bad wine,
doesn't mean you have to kill your budget to drink well.
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River Road Russian River Pinot Noir- California
Cost: about $13
Varietal: Pinot Noir
It's getting colder but this beauty
will help warm you up. All the wonderful woodsy, mushroom, ripe cherry
characteristic you'd expect to pay much more for. Great with beef
stroganoff, macaroni and cheese or Portobello mushroom "steaks" with red
wine sauce and mashed taters.
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