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This will be a short review as we have a very upset child in the house. A glass of wine earlier made for a delay in his dinner.  That said, it was such a nice wine we wanted to get this on the Blog. Barbera Da Vine is an extremely dark red wine which is very thick in the glass on the swirl.  There are very slow legs and this is almost reminiscent of Malbec in colour.  Very dark wine. The nose is strong with deep notes of violets and plum.  It is a bold wine with oak and stone fruit firmly implanted in the bouquet.  Really delicious, fantastic really. There is a roundness to the wine that is belies the pricetag of $15 locally. We would say the QPR on this wine is extremely high.  This wine would not be surprising to be $30.  The wine is has a a very bold mouthfeel with firm tannins and lots of sour cherry notes.  This is pretty much a 0 on the sweetness scale.  Just a hint at the start of the palate but a very balance finish that go...

Courtesy palmbay.com So. it's Saturday night and Morgan has done his eating for this evening and we figured it would be a good opportunity to do a quick wine tasting with our dinner.  We started with a good ol' New Orleans Boiled Shrimp and finished with Scallops poached in the Shrimp Boil liquid and Squash Risotto.  Since we were having something a little spicy we figured something with a bit of residual sugar might work and we were right. We were provided this wine earlier in the Summer and had wanted to try it when the weather was warmer but it was a nice day so all good.  This is a German Pinot Grigio and we were fairly certain that it would be on the off-dry end of the spectrum and that was perfect with dinner. In the glass the wine looks quite clear and it portrays itself as being a crisp looking wine and overall that kind of holds up.  There are bubbles in the glass as well.  We kind of like some of these off-dry whites to have a little sp...

We are considering making an appearance at this year's NSLC Port of Wines Festival which is featuring the wines of Italy.  It really is the most wonderful time of the year.  However, should we decide to attend, it will be a vastly different experience from previous years.  Lots of sip/spit/dump....and while that makes us sad in a lot of different ways we will undoubtedly have a better tasting experience and our babysitter and child will also appreciate that. It brings up an interesting question. We have sampled a good number of different wines over the last few years (especially at this festival).  Many bottles, grape varieties, regions, countries and on it goes.  We don't consider ourselves wine snobs by any stretch of the imagination but we have begun to develop certain, shall we say, preferences.  These preferences are not really a price equation but more a quality equation.  We have been kinder than most to some wines but we feel like ther...

Shannon's first wine review post-birth of our son Morgan.  He is a healthy baby boy and she wants to keep it that way so she is having a minimal glass between feedings.  To her it is a moral victory to be back in the land of wine tasting. It's good to have her back even if it is on a part time basis.  Hopefully, our volume of reviews/posts will start to increase again.  Thank goodness the pressure is off of me....whew. We purchased this wine while she was on the bench at Cristall Wine Merchants back in late-Winter or early-Spring.  We love Mencia so we bought this one and another from the Bierzo region which we will review at a later date.  This one is from the Castilla y Leon region in the NW of Spain not far from Bierzo. While we would probably consider this a medium bodied wine but it would be on the heavier side of medium.  This is a pretty dark wine and we would call the colour crimson with a mahogany rim around the edge. The body kind o...