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Serious Grape: Drink Pink
Has anyone tasted the '08 Clos d'Alari "Grand Clos" (Provence)?
It's mostly Cinsault (small Rolle; Mouvedre, and Grenache).
Serious Grape: California Cabernet for Every Budget
What little CA wine we get here is very expensive.
Best values I have seen in the last few months are the Chilean '06 Errazuriz Reserve Cabernet and Reserve Merlot ($160, pesos or about $10.45 US).
The Merlot is lovely and nearly the equal of the always good Montes Alpha (that was about US $13. at the winery in Nov '07) and Cuvee Alexandra from Casa Lapostolle.
The Cab should be decanted as it takes a while to open, but the levels of complexity are amazing after a few hours.
Salud.
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Try an Argentine Torrontes - quite flamboyant like a CA Viognier - paid about US$8.
Our house reds are sub US$5.(at Costco) '08 Las Moras Argentine Malbec and '06 Nazaras Tempranillo from Castilla, Spain (at Mega).
Spanish Mourvedre is frequently called Monastrell.
Salud!