2011 Royal Crest Red
Monday, May 12th, 2014 Posted in Cheap and Red, Odds, Ends & Blends, Oregon, Uncategorized, Unknown! | No Comments »I grabbed a bottle off the shelf the other night to just have something cheap and red with dinner. I honestly can not recall when this bottle showed up, but I do recall that it was a freebie. It was ...
Cellar Dregs: 2006 Cameron Hughes Lot 102.
Saturday, February 25th, 2012 Posted in Cabernet Sauvignon, California, Cheap and Red, Napa, The Spit Bucket | No Comments »I love Cameron Hughes wines. In fact they represent likely 80% of our nightly consumption here at Chez Vinagoth. I buy several cases of mixed reds from CHwines per year to keep the cellar stocked. So by no means ...
Cellar Treasures: 2002 Parducci Petite Sirah.
Saturday, July 31st, 2010 Posted in California, Cellar Treasures, Cheap and Red, Petite Sirah | 1 Comment »An impending move has me clearing out my cellar. I'm starting a new job son in another state that has Mr. & Mrs. Barbarian moving to a new home very soon. As a result I haven't bought very many wines ...
Cellar Treasure: 2002 “K” Syrah
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in Cellar Treasures, Cheap and Red, Syrah, Walla Walla, Washington State | No Comments »Apologies for the dearth of reviews of late, but I have basically limited my intake to the same Chilean wines I've been reviewing over the past year already. I figured you didn't want to experience deja vu all over again. ...
Odd label, good wine.
Friday, March 19th, 2010 Posted in Carmenère, Cheap and Red, Chile | No Comments »While stalking cheap Chileans at my grocer's wine section recently I noted a new label I'd never seen before. It features a large, long silver chile shape (which sort of looks like the shape of the country of Chile.) I ...
Cono Sur 2008 Carmenère. Toughest wine review, ever.
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in Carmenère, Cheap and Red, Chile | 2 Comments »Last week, in fact a few days before the 8.8RS earthquake struck Chile, I saw this Carmenère on sale at my local grocer. I remember it well because I often shoot cell-cam photos like these: I do this to make a ...
Calcu Redux
Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère, Cheap and Red, Chile, Merlot | No Comments »Enjoyed a "Calcu Super Chilean" tonight with dinner. Drank it before, seemed even better this time. Above is a photo taken at dessert at our favorite restaurant. Yes, I made a mess of the tablecloth! Old Review: http://bit.ly/bXV0ZL
Big Food needs Big Wine
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in California, Cheap and Red, Petite Sirah | 1 Comment »Mrs. Barbarian made a Costco run today, and returned with several industrial-scale boxes filled with foodstuffs. At first I thought she was planning to load a C-130 headed for Haiti, but no… we're supposed to eat it all. Conspicuously absent ...
CH Lot 110: The wine that saved us from Raucous Red
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in California, Cheap and Red, Napa, Pinot Noir, Sonoma | No Comments »After the disaster that was the Raucous Red, I had to save the evening and the dinner with a "sure thing". Around our house that usually means something from Cameron Hughes. CH Wines are almost always consistent. Consistently good that ...
Raucous? yes. Wrecked us? Certainly.
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 Posted in Cheap and Red, Odds, Ends & Blends, The Spit Bucket, Washington State | No Comments »When you think of great wine cultures your mind conjures up provinces of France, rugged struggling vines in Spain, fruit & nut Californians, enterprising Australians, and Carmenere-saving Chileans. Probably the last culture you would associate with viniculture are horn-helmeted raiders ...
