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OGIO Californian White Zinfandel 2010

2 May 2012
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I intend to shock you all this week by telling you that this gorgeous OGIO white Zinfandel actually cost a whopping £9.99. Yes you did hear me right, the queen of cheap plonk actually purchased a bottle marked up at a tenner. But did I pay this RRP? No, I did not; I got this [...]

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Californian White Wine

30 March 2012
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Mention Californian white wine to any wine drinker and the grape which immediately springs to mind is Chardonnay. This popular grape is by the far the most planted in the Californian wine growing region and it produces some of California’s most iconic white wines. Californian Chardonnay has a deserved worldwide reputation. In the past, Californian [...]

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Long Meadow Ranch, a Californian Sauvignon Blanc

5 August 2011
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Californian wines just don’t seem to have found their place in the UK market which is a shame because they are not all “red fruit bombs” or “butter bomb” Chardonnays. I was in Brighton recently for a Napa Valley winemakers dinner and the very first wine served to us was a Californian sauvignon blanc. Many [...]

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Essensia Orange Muscat 2007 – Vitamin C Tablets in Liquid Form

25 May 2011
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I haven’t bought a lot of dessert wines lately but – like an overweight monk might possibly have said once on a cold January morning –  I’m trying to get back into the habit. I’m familliar with Muscat, but not in this form – usually I find it’s paler: a kind of straw-yellow, maybe with [...]

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Robert Mondavi Private Selection From Ralphs – A Round-Up

2 January 2011
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Casually mention your predilection for Robert Mondavi wines in polite society and you could cause something of a stir. But if having a name so similar to a universally loathed dictator has ever troubled Mr Mondavi, one of California’s preeminent vintners, he’s not letting it show in the quality of his wines, which provided the [...]

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Robert Mondavi Napa Valley Chardonnay 2006

7 December 2010
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Robert Mondavi is an American winemaking legend known throughout the world. Raised in a traditional Italian family, he appreciated that sharing good wine with good food is one of life’s simplest yet best pleasures. He was the first to recognise the potential of the Napa Valley in California for growing vines and established the first [...]

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