We have 2 from our affordable purveyor Trader Joe's...
Our first wine this week is our Sicilian friend Nero D'Avola. We tasted the Epicuro Vendemmia 2009 Nero D'Avola. This is a delightful pizza wine with a clear cherry color, a pleasantly sweet nose with a lightly tannic and soft berry-cherry taste. Vendemmia is the Italian term for the fall harvest time. Sorry the photo is a little dark...
Our second wine is labeled as Trader Joe's Reserve but it comes from Castoro Cellars in CA. This is the 2010 Carignane Paso Robles. Color is clear and dark purple, the aroma is peppery and the taste lead with the same peppery note in this tanninc, full bodied and long finishing red. I went right out and bought another bottle of this one. The Carignan grape seems to be one of the "red-headed step children". (pronounced "Karen-Yawn") I understand it to be a widely planted, high yield grape but treated more as a workhorse blender. I liked this one really well and for $10 bucks I think it is a really nice big wine. Castoro had a 2008 on their website for $18 which might be interesting to taste side by side...
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