Month: August 2020

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend and are ready for the week. I was excited to try a new wine. Let’s face it, I’m excited to try any wine, but let’s focus on the “new”. I receive emails from a local wine distributor…and I’m a sucker…henceforth, I buy new and exciting wines based on an email. I bought two bottles of the 2017 Planeta Red Wine. This is a Sicilian wine made of both Nero d’Avola and Frappato grapes that are grown in Sicily. The Nero d’Avola grapes can be compared to Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, but the Frappato are more fruity by nature. Per Wine Folly, the Frappato grapes are paired with the Nero d’Avola grapes to give them more complexity. In this case, I didn’t get the complexity. It tasted dark cherry and some paper believe it or not. It was juicy (yeah I know I sound ridiculous saying it), but it was a juicy wine. It was a relative light wine overall. I let it breathe and then tried it again. I think I drink too many bolder wines as this just didn’t stand up even as a drinking wine. This wine is $20 to $25 per bottle but it is more difficult to find unless you end up on the email distribution list of a local wine distributor…like me. Have a great week.

Hello Everyone!   It’s been a while since I last blogged, so working to get back into it.  That doesn’t mean I haven’t been drinking wine, just not writing about it.  Sigh.  I did try a Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina a couple of weeks ago.   It was the 2013 Terrazas de los Andes single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon.  I was excited to try it as hadn’t had an Argentinian wine in a while.  Some Argentinian and Chilean wines can include minerality and earthiness.   I’m all in on that.   I wasn’t all in on this.  There is minerality and earthiness and then there is..well..not of this earth.   It was skunky and I suspect might not have been stored well.  I took a sip but thought letting it breathe a bit would help.  It didn’t.   I’m not sure this was the wine or perhaps the storage of the wine that did not pull in its favor, it was just poor smell and taste.   I also bought a 2014 Terrazas Malbec at the same time, so curious to see how that goes.   Both bottles of wine were in the $30 range.  I’ll keep you posted on the Malbec.