Posted on 02/23/2020 5:22:35 PM PST by Coleus
From left, Zonte’s Footstep Love Symbol Grenache 2017, Weingut Bründlmayer Grüner Veltliner Terrassen 2018, Da Capo Grignolino d’Asti Renard 2017, Le Marie Blanc de Lissart 2017 and Loimer Lois Grüner Veltliner 2018. (Tom McCorkle/for The Washington Post)
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, we have an Australian grenache that successfully combines love-themed branding with good-quality wine. An exotic Italian white would also be a good choice for a romantic dinner, or you could revisit an Italian vacation with a trattoria-style red. We also have two outstanding grüner veltliners from Austria to complete the lineup.
Piedmont, Italy, $19
Grignolino is the type of cheap wine you find in a roadside trattoria during your Italian vacation that makes you wonder, “Why can’t we get this at home?” Grignolino may not be considered a serious wine, but the folks at Da Capo take it seriously and bring us this delightful bottling that just might transport you back to that Italian sojourn, at least in memory. Bright red fruit flavors and a laser beam of stony minerality give this wine energy and clarity of flavor. Like a tuning fork on a perfect high C. Unfortunately, by the time the wine reaches our retail shelves, it’s not an inexpensive quaff any more. And proposed tariffs would make it more dear. Alcohol by volume: 13.5 percent.
Imported and distributed by Simon N Cellars: Available in the District at A. Litteri, Cork & Fork. Available in Virginia at the Italian Store (Lyon Village) in Arlington, Tastings of Charlottesville in Charlottesville, Tinto (Chesapeake, Virginia Beach), Unwined (Alexandria, Belleview), the Wine Outlet (Great Falls, McLean).
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I prefer mine in a box
Wayy cheaper!
Go to Aldis. Buy Winking Owl for $3.29 cabernet, merlot, shiraz, etc . . . darn good for the money.
Red wine with steak; white wine with chicken, pork, fish and seafood.
Bernie says that capitalism has produced too much wine choice and there should be only ONE government-issued red wine. Actually, Bernie wants to ban all wine production and have the government factory make only potato-based vodka.
Gramps buys Merlot by the box at Walmart for $15 - not bad tasting really.
Bring me NEW wine! Not this old stuff! Something made this year! (Steve Martin, The Jerk)
What box wine isn’t good enough for you?
If the Washington Post told me to drink water I would stop.
La Moneda Reserva—the award-winning Chilean Malbec wine—is set to arrive at 500 different Walmart stores across the nation. Earlier this year, the Malbec won the “platinum best in show” award at the Decanter World Wine Awards, a prestigious wine competition
What’s the word?
Walmart makes it’s own brand of wine?
Gramps agrees. Loves his stuff. Once somebody gave him a glass of supposedly good stuff and he spit it out, said it was cr@p.
It was so much easier in high school. Boone’s Farm, Annie Green Springs or maybe MD 20/20.
Awe crap, I thought he might have a lead on a great Brunello di Montalcino.
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