Winos Anonymous

Earlier this week I was back at the Whole Foods Venice wine tasting bar for the second time in 3 days, this time to take advantage of their Monday night special: 1/2 off all Enomatic pours. It’s a great deal, especially since you can eat whatever you purchase from the store while you sip on your wine and most pours are $3.99 or under to begin with.

And now I’m going to level with you: I tried A LOT of them. Rather than painstakingly go through each one, I’m going to talk about the wines that I was a huge fan of and leave out the “meh” wines… I’m also going to leave out a wine I tried that- no joke- tasted like a rubber tire.

First wine worth mentioning was a much better Carmenere than the one I tried a couple of weeks ago, though still not drink-the-whole-bottle-in-one-sitting good. It was the 2007 Terra Noble Carmenere, available for $1.99/pour and $15/bottle. It had notes of black cherry, tobacco, leather, and a nice peppery spice. It’s pretty straight forward and pretty good.

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I hope you all had wonderful Thanksgivings and are currently nursing your wine and food comas. I’m not gonna lie: tonight I straight-up winged which wine I’d be blogging about- just grabbed a wine variety I’d never tried and ran with it. It’s the Toro D’Oro Carmenere Reserve from Chile:

Before I opened the wine I referred to my handy dandy Wine Bible, which I purchased last weekend (oh yeah, it’s getting serious) to learn more about the Carmenere grape, which until tonight I’d never tried. Here’s the description the author gave: (more…)