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 [Enoteca - Fine Wine & Beer] Enoteca News: Four 90-92 Point Wines This Weekend, Super Bowl Fans ...: Cabernet Sauvignon has good palate weight and structure without any hint of aggressive young tannins as they have been balanced out by the Grenache and Merlot. This wine is formulated to allow for early drinking however the addition of the Shiraz and in particular the Cabernet gives the wine focus, length and ageability.

 [Kashrut News] A Vintage Year: A critic picks the best new kosher wines of ’07: Carmel, Galilee, Sha’al Single Vineyard, Late Harvest Gewürztraminer, 2005: Made from grapes grown in the Sha’al Vineyard in the northern Galilee, this light-gold-colored, medium-to-full-bodied, dessert wine has a bouquet of apricots, lichees, tropical fruits, heather and spices. Look for flavors of apricots, oranges, pineapples and heather, with hints of botrytis and rose petals, and a nice underlying layer of cloves and black pepper.

[kosherwinereport] Noted Wine Expert Daniel Rogov visits Recanati!: Recanati, Special Reserve, 2004: My earlier tasting note holds firmly: A blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Merlot, with generous but not exaggerated toasty oak and soft tannins, those integrating nicely and opening to reveal a rich array of currant, blackberry and black cherry fruits, with gentle overlays of mint and chocolate. As the wine develops look for a hint of cigar tobacco on the long finish.

 [Wine Musings] Ella Valley in Judean Hills: We met Udi - the winery manager at the visitor center.  It was hard to hear him at times over the squall of the parrots that grace the front of the building.  It turns out that the GM, Danny Valero, has a strong love for parrots and they have a commanded presence along the path that leads to the visitors center.  Udi went on to explain that the winery has an exacting scientific approach to wine making - down to the numbering of each bottle that they produce.  Being that the winery is so close to the perfectly tended and managed vines - they are estate bottled (a not so common feat in Israel), and they can control the fermentation process to their exacting standards.  The vineyard is in a long and beautiful valley, which shelters the grapes from winter frost and the extreme heat during the long summer months. 

[Wine Tasting Guy] What makes a good wine?: Complicated in that I don’t think too many people would admit that they buy wine based on price or scores, but it is a sad reality. Wine consumers have SOOO many choices, how does one narrow those choices down?  Start by eliminating wines out of your price range (too high) or whose price tags lead you to believe they can not be any good (too low).

 [hakerem: The Israeli Wine Blog] The Best Wines of Israel: 2007: Ella Valley Vineyards, Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot, Vineyard’s Choice, 2005: Dark garnet towards purple and deeply aromatic, this full-bodied blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Merlot is showing muscular, tannic and teeth-coating at this time but the balance and structure are definitely here to bode well for the future. Opens to reveal currant, cherry and berry fruits, those with generous hints of toasty oak, an appealing base of exotic spices and overtones of cedar that come in on the long finish.

 [Enobytes Wine Blog] Enobytes Top Wine Surprises for 2007: This HUGE flavored "Winemakers Blend" of Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc had me screaming for more. Bordeaux style with oomph is a good way to describe this muscular wine with refined characteristics.

 [Dr Vino's wine blog] Red, white and blue wine: a wine lover’s guide to the presidential ...: […] Red, white and blue wine: a wine lover’s guide to the presidential primaries File this in the “hoot” category, with photos to emphasize selections.

 [The Books and Movies ' s Blog] The Kite Runner: account and their father’s plea for mercy, my grandfather ordered the two young men to go to Kandahar at once and enlist in the army for one year””this despite the fact that their family had somehow managed to obtain them exemptions from the draft. Their father argued, but not too vehemently, and in the end, everyone agreed that the punishment had been perhaps harsh but fair.

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