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Producer: The Fifth Empire Wine Co. Name: Destino Red Blend Color: Red Vintage: 2019 Grapes: Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional Country: Portugal Region: Douro Appellation: NA ABV: 13.5% Price: $20 Takeaway A bold Portuguese red that looks intimidating but turns out to be surprisingly balanced and perfect to share over dinner. First Thought This […]

Producer: Hampton Water Name: Rosé Color: Pink Vintage: 2024 Grapes: 60% Grenache, 15% Cinsault, 15% Mourvèdre, and 10% Syrah from the Languedoc region Country: France Region: Languedoc, South of France Appellation: Languedoc Roussillon ABV: 13% Price: $17-$25 Takeaway A light, refreshing rosé that works for poolside sipping, but it may leave serious wine drinkers wanting

Join us as we review the Louis Bouillot Crémant De Bourgogne, Blanc De Blancs, from Burgundy France. This week, Aaron rants about Crémant and Colin tries to find a sparkling wine that out values the Veuve from a few episodes ago.

Join us as we review the 2021 Carmen Gran Reserva Merlot from Maipo in Chile. This week, the guys discuss the issue of having old crackly bones and small sleeping children, they peel back the layers on the criteria each of them uses to assess and rate a wine, and the research department uncovers the truth about a potentially misleading sticker placed on the bottle.

Join us this week as we review the Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne from France. Joel drops some awesome knowledge on us as we dive into the history of the Veuve Clicquot Champagne house in a fun game of “Fact or Fiction” and there is some significant disagreement as to where the guys end up putting this bottle of bubbly.

Will this popular Champagne live up to the Yellow Label hype

Join us this week as we review the Catena 2020 Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina. This week Colin helps the guys search for a replacement for the much-maligned Layer Cake Malbec, Joel helps Colin with the learning segment, kind of, and Aaron finally gets to do the social media sign off at the end.

Join us this week as we review the Black Box Sauvignon Blanc from Chile. We’re venturing into uncharted territory today with our first-ever review of a wine in a box/tetra pack. Let’s just say the guys have some mixed feelings about it. We also learn a bit about the Sauvignon Blanc grape!

Join us this week as we review our first Bordeaux Blanc from Château Rauzan Despagne from the Bordeaux region of France! Aaron smells tennis balls for the first time, we wrap up our trivia game and Aaron throws down the boxed wine gauntlet. This one is a fun one!

Join us this week as we review a dry Riesling from Domdechant Werner located in the Rheingau region of Germany! We jump back into our trivia game and learn about how grape juice is turned into wine.