30 Nov
This past weekend I headed back over to Elvino wine shop to do another tasting. This time, Bart had put together a $10 “Couch Potato Flight” for a lazy post-Thanksgiving weekend. All 3 wines were under $20, which was a bonus!
The first wine was the lovely, easy-drinking NV Cantine Riondo Prosecco
At Elvino it is sold for $13, which is totally reasonable… BUT you can definitely find this sucker for (more…)
15 Nov
Happy Monday, winos!
Hope you all had lovely, wine-soaked weekends. I am back to share the Santa Julia Organic Bonarda, a lovely Argentinian wine I tried last night.
This was my first time trying Bonarda, an Argentinian grape that is native to the Piedmont region of Italy. The color was a beautiful deep garnet, almost verging on purple. The nose was subtle with hints of red fruit, a little black pepper, and a little bit of earthy funk. The palate, however, was a whole ‘nother ball game- juicy fruit (mainly plum, black cherry, and fig), a little spice, nice tannins, a little slate, with a long, dry finish. It was smooth and very fruit forward without being too sweet.
For $11, this is definitely worth picking up, if for no other reason than to try something new and different (and this one’s organic, so less guilt, right? Riiiiight.) Though I drank this wine on its own and thought it was just lovely, it would pair beautifully with a tomato-based pasta dish, skirt steak, barbeque, or a spinach salad with gorgonzola cheese, to name just a few. This wine is very versatile- looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it! Hope your Mondays fly by and if they don’t… well, there’s always a bottle (er… glass) of wine to throw back at the end of the day to help assuage some of the damage. Cheers, winos!
