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2022 Montes Alpha Carmenère ($24.99) Montes — officially Viña Montes — was founded in 1987 by four partners with extensive experience in winemaking and viticulture: Aurelio Montes, Douglas Murray, Alfredo Vidaurre, and Pedro Grand. Their founding ...
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Barbera 🍷  * Image by Giorgio Gallesiol on Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) * Barbera (Bar-BEAR-ah) is thought to have originated in the hills of central Piemonte (“peh-ah-MON-tey”) Italy, w...
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2023 St. Francis Sonoma County Pinot Noir ($25.99) The fruit for this wine was sourced from multiple vineyards in the Sonoma Coast region. This Pinot was fermented using a combination of techniques, fusing both old and new world styles of Pinot N...
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* Image from Alexis Kreyder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons * Aglianico 🍷 Aglianico (ahl-YAH-nee-koh) is a red wine grape that is thought to be native to southern Italy. Originally, it was thought that Aglianico was from Greece. Its name i...
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2016 Olarra Classico Gran Reserva Rioja ($30) Olarra Clásico Gran Reserva 2016 is a well-regarded Spanish red wine from the Rioja region of Spain. With a history dating back 50 years, Bodegas Olarra base their wines on the ideal selection of the ...
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* Image from Wikimedia Commons * Alicante Bouschet 🍷 Alicante Bouschet (ally-can-tay boo-shey) was created in 1866 by botanist Henri Bouschet when he crossed Granacha with Petit Bouschet in Southern France. This grape is unique in that both the...
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2022 Gary Farrell Russian River Selection Pinot Noir ($22) Gary Farrell Russian River Selection Pinot Noir is blended from some of the region’s top vineyards. The Rochioli and Bacigalupi vineyards are in the Middle Reach subdivision, where close p...
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* Photo by Miguel Ángel García on Wikimedia Commons * Albariño  Albariño grapes are mostly found in the northwest of Spain and Portugal but but they owe their growing popularity to the s...
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2021 Trujillo Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($96) Michael Trujillo arrived in Napa Valley in 1982 from his family’s farm in Colorado. He grew up helping his father year-round in the fields, and learned early on about how soil, climate, pests and ...
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* Photo by Moritz Knöringer on Unsplash * As we begin a new year, EverWonderWine will take you on a tour of the more common grapes, A to Z, used around the world to produce wine. We’ll look at where the grapes originated, where they’re grow...
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