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[Jason's Wine Blog] 2008 Crane Lake Down Under Chardonnay | Jason's Wine Blog | Trader ...: Price: $2.99 @ Trader Joe's imported by Crane LakeWhat They Said:Per Wall Street Journal One other wine stood out. In our notes we wrote: “Crisp, with.

[Slashfood] Five Great Chardonnays for $15 and Under - Wine of the Week ...: Montes Chardonnay 2007, Curico Valley, Chile: ($12) Another classic New World style, this is a big vino in every sense -- loads of fruit, high acidity and plenty of oak. Personally I like the more austere, un-oaked styles, but this wine is well-made by a respected Chilean producer and is a good value for the price.

[My Foodservice News] 5 Great Chardonnays Under $15 | My Foodservice News: Down Under by Crane Lake Chardonnay 2008, Australia ($5): Fred Franzia of Two Buck Chuck fame has a new project: Undercut the Yellow Tails and other major Australian brands with his Down Under series (even as he’s being sued by them). With its environmentally-friendly lightweight bottle, recycled cork and recycled-paper label, the wine already feels like a winner, but it takes the cake with fresh, bright, crisp, highly drinkable wine at a price tag you cannot turn your nose up at.

[STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG] STEVE HEIMOFF| WINE BLOG » Blog Archive » Sorry, Fred, lots of ...: The story could be as simple as “This is Lafite.” It could be “I own a share in the chateau.” Or “My Dad bought this for me on the day I was born, to open on my 21st birthday.” Or “Parker gave this wine 100 points.” Or “I’ve followed every vintage of Sloan so I’m really looking forward to the new one.” Or “This is the new wine from Heidi Peterson Barrett, and I love her style.” Cheap wines tend not to have stories because they’re industrial products. They get the job done, which is their purpose in life.

[wine spectator] Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto | wine spectator: starting with equitable a chardonnay, was announced in mid-June and then with more flushed coverage in the first week of July, the feedback from Casella wines was uninterested. on the mostly John Casella, managing gaffer of Casella Wines, quoted in an Associated Press article that ran in the Modesto Bee on July 4th said, “A loads of brands joust with Yellow Tail and this disposition be another.”

[from Reason to Freedom - Think for Yourself!] Pine & Post 2004 Chardonnay Washington | Fermented Reviews: My best guess: asparagus or artichoke, as this wine has a decidedly cooked vegetable taste to it. There’s some moderate acidity and definite dryness to this wine, as well as a short finish.

[wine spectator] The Interesting Story Of Fred Franzia & Two Buck Chuck, TIM ...: Bronco’s headquarters, which dwell behind a phalanx of indistinct Italian cypresses, good old days a evident checkpoint, are in Ceres, an agricultural village on the outskirts of Modesto, in the Central Valley-a reconcile that Franzia finds derogatory, as it fails to get even to the geological dissimilitude contained within the valley. (His on the mostly of the valley, he points dÐ’modÐ’, is the San Joaquin.) It also irritates Franzia when people define Bronco’s privy, with its four hundred and fifty-two stainless-steel storage tanks-including six liquid-oxygen tanks that at intervals held ammunition in search intercontinental ballistic missiles and are at this deeply moment familiar to colour champagne-as being reminiscent of an lubricate refinery.

[Cheap Wine Reviews] Cheap Wine Reviews » FishEye Cabernet Sauvignon 2003 - Cheap red ...: I find this better than the Crane Lake Cab I've used for the same purposes. Save the better stuff for more scruinizing seated diners and let this one flow at cocktail hour! Comment by Rob Walker @ April 12, 2006, 11:49 am. Keep up the good reviews. ... Purchashed fisheye chardonnay and merlot. Actually it was buy one get one free. Great after- flavor, that being very important to me. Just hope it's not a cheap wine that gives me a headache. Hope this helps! ...

[TIM - Timothy Sykes] The Interesting Story Of Fred Franzia & Two Buck Chuck | TIM ...: Bronco’s headquarters, which sit behind a phalanx of shadowy Italian cypresses, past a secure checkpoint, are in Ceres, an agricultural town on the outskirts of Modesto, in the Central Valley–a term that Franzia finds derogatory, as it fails to acknowledge the geological diversity contained within the valley. (His part of the valley, he points out, is the San Joaquin.) It also irritates Franzia when people describe Bronco’s facility, with its four hundred and fifty-two stainless-steel storage tanks–including six liquid-oxygen tanks that once held fuel for intercontinental ballistic missiles and are now used to make champagne–as being reminiscent of an oil refinery.

[Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto] Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto: Note to Helen: in the U.S. market where virtually every store has sanitizing gel so you don’t have to touch the germ infested shopping cart without some sort of germicidal protection, calling sheep manure the secret ingredient to wine is probably going to turn off even the most ardent of natural wine lovers.

[VNW Blog Newsfeed] Vintage New World - The Undercut: The market for Australian wines is currently very soft in the U.S. After a decade of rapid expansion in this market, the Australians are now experiencing trade resistance, especially to higher priced wines. And the Australians must export to sustain their wine business, since their domestic market isn't large enough to consume the quantity of wine now in production.

[VintageTexas] Cowboys and Cabernet: Lone Star Wines Shine at California ...: Next, I gave the crowd a quick run-down of the facts and figures of Texas Wines; the history, the grapes, the stats.  One thing I will never forget is how the statement, “today, Texas is the fifth largest wine producer in the nation” stunned the group.  They just couldn’t believe it…I spent about five minutes shielding questions like “what about New Mexico, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio???”.  Yep, heard them all, and those states are kicking at our heels, but as of today we are number five!  Thankfully, one of the Texas Master Sommeliers in the audience backed me up and we got that matter settled once and for all!

[Cheap Wine Reviews] Cheap Wine Reviews » Charles Shaw (Two-buck-chuck) Cabernet ...: i’m a fruity reisling kinda guy with about 6 different bottles of various warieties before me right now at my desk- a scuppernong from NC, some reislings i’m saving from Washington and i’m pretty sure are top drawer, Sutter, Turning Leaf and Beringer zinfandels. I was using the web to find out which one was the best to save so i could take it to my brother-in-laws as a gift (and drink it with him, of course!)

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