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Weekly Wine Roundup: Grenache!
Posted by Wine Reviews | Posted on 09-26-2011
| Posted inTwo Terroirists celebrated International #GrenacheDay this week, while others spent the week tasting some pretty remarkable wines — including some Bordeaux all stars. Check out our notes below!
David White
Just one wine this past week. For International #GrenacheDay, I pulled the cork on my third (and final!) bottle of 2006 Rudius Grenache. It was consumed casually — over pizza and salad (and with crappy stemware) at Iggies Pizza in Baltimore. The wine was stunning — plums, prunes, black olives, green peppers, tart cherries, and cocoa don’t sound like a good mix, but all these elements (and tons more) came screaming out of the glass. And the wine was incredibly juicy, so it paired perfectly with dinner. I remain very impressed with everything coming from Rudius Wines. Read the rest of this entry »