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Happy New Year!! So, it has been a pretty dry 2013 overall in the Unfussy Wine household with baby arriving but we are hoping that 2014 will bring a new commitment to wine enjoyment and solid food for little Morgan. :) We will be spending a very quiet New Year's Eve (NYE) as a family and we may make it to midnight and then again we may not.  There is also no guarantee that wine of any kind will be consumed....but ya never know. So, for all those who will be enjoying the transition to 2014 in style we thought we would put in front of you our Ten Ten Wines to go with you tonight as you enjoy your celebrations.  PLUS, if you are attending at a residence that is not yours it is always polite to bring something with you and yes we are talking to you twenty-somethings.  Be a good party guest and don't just BYOB.  So, without further adieu, the list starting at 10: 10. Aussie Shiraz - this is a great starter red for those white wine drinkers in the house and very...

Intriga Cabernet Sauvignon We bought this wine at the NSLC Port of Wines Festival in September.  We remembered it as a stand out and it was an award winner.  From the Maipo Valley the Intriga winery has evidently been in operation since 1865. In the glass it is a very dark wine.  The legs on the swirl are very long and show all of the 14.5% alcohol.  This is purple wine.  We could come up with a garnet or ruby but it is really just dark purple. This wine has a really warm nose with spice, black currents, and violets dominating.  There is also a good amount of oak in the nose.  When we say oak we mean oak.  There isn't any vanilla to coincide with it just wood.  That stands to reason with the 34 months the wine spent in oak.  If the nose had less of the other notes this would be a downer but as it stands it smells pretty nice. On the tongue this is a bold, very dry, very tannic wine.  The mid-palate is where we had...

We were provided this wine from Nederburg Wines  and it was a late addition to a Spinach and Cheese Ravoli with Tomato Sauce menu.  Once opened it smelled surprisingly (well not entirely surprising) like South African Pinotage.  The coffee and chocolate notes were front and centre on the nose but funnily enough it disappeared once the wine had been opened for a while. The wine is dark and it has a real thickness in a glass.  It looks like Shiraz if you can put it that way but it definitely shows long, slow legs when you swirl it.  We'll call it typical but that is really just to give it a description.  Overall...we'll say, it is crimson as expected. Once the Pinotage notes faded the blackberries and cherries came through and it had more of that Shiraz nose we would expect from the Australian version.  That is a good thing on the nose.  The website mentions subtle vanilla but it's more woody than vanilla. The blackberries still hang a...

Saw this linked on WineBusiness.com and had to share it for the Season. It is actually pretty good and frankly, just can't that beat out of my head.... Damn that catchy Robin Thicke. It says they are producing an actual video so we will keep our eyes peeled for that. Happy Holidays, y'all! Keep on tasting, Chris & Shannon

We are having a rich roasted lamb dinner tonight and thought that a big bold wine was in order.  When we grabbed the bottle it looked familiar and upon checking we had the 2008 last year around this time (review here ).  Like the 2008, the 2010 was a purchase from the NSLC Wine Festival in September.  Don't judge us but we are gonna recycle a bit of that review for time's sake because it still applies. From Graffigna Wines , this Malbec is a nice version of Argentina's signature grape.  As expected, this is a dark wine with deep purple colours and a thick skim in the glass. Once again the nose is very oaky and we get a lot of dark fruit and stone fruit, maybe black currents and plums.  Last time there was a cocoa undercurrent as well as a little smoke. All this still applies to the 2010. Just like in 2008, the 2010 has lots of violets and blackberries in the glass.  That said, this time around it is a very elegant balance of tannins, fruit, an...