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sangiovese

Christmas Party Finds

December 17, 2008

As you may have read, I’m a great fan of the Balboa Candy Mountain Sangiovese. I bought all I could find. And in an uncharacteristically generous holiday spirit, I took some to our office Christmas party. Of course, surrounded in this community by winemakers and wine lovers, there was quite a collection of bottles on [...]

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Balboa Un-constricting

September 23, 2008

Yes, I have read all the advice saying that simply posting tasting notes is ridiculous and a waste of blog readers’ time. Make what you will of this.
I had a meeting this evening at The Marc (sometimes called the Vineyard Lounge) in downtown Walla Walla. While my associate chose to have a raspberry whiskey sour, [...]

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The Barnard Griffin in Dreams

June 26, 2008

A few recorded comments…

The wine is beautiful. Yummy. And such an amazing color! I happened to set it down by the Anthropologie catalog and — kazaam!! Had to snap it. It seems such an ideal summertime picture: the dress, the crafty cutout clouds, dreamy, relaxed. (Look at the “in dreams” text under the base.) Much [...]

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