Top Twelve

Here’s our seventh top twelve list. A quick review of the rules that we follow: we choose 4 wines in the under $15 category, 4 in the $15 - $30 category and four in the over $30 category. Also, a winery can only appear once on the list.

Two wines from our honeymoon made the list. Unfortunately, we haven’t finished editing the notes yet so those reviews haven’t been posted. Hopefully, they will be posted in the near future. We were a few wines short in the mid range category this quarter, so we went back through our reviews and included a few great wines that were somehow left off prior top twelve lists.

The Sammarco is absolutely the best under $5 wine we have ever tasted. The Muffo was a revelation. It is a botrytized wine that is much richer than a Sauternes. It ranks up there with the best dessert wines in the world. The rest of the wines on the list are the usual suspects: French wines, a Marlborough S.B., a few from the Douro, a few from California and of course, a Chardonnay for Jen.

2.5 Euros, Ettore Sammarco, Ravella Rosso, Costa d’ Amalfi
Honeymoon – Praiano, Review not yet Posted

$7.99, 2004 Chateau des Cleons, Muscadet Sevre et Maines
Muscadet, 8/17/06

$12.99, Babich 2005 Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough
Lime and Apricot, 10/6/06

$13.99, Domaine Chandon Riche
Napa, 8/7/06

$15.99, Los Vascos, 2003 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Chile
Lafite in Chile, 6/22/06

$19.99, 2005 Qupe Chardonnay, Santa Maria Valley, Bien Nacido Vineyard “Y” BlockPeach Pie and Cardamom, 11/6/06

$25, Quinta de Roriz, Reserva 2001
Flavor Bomb, 3/1/06

$27.99, Lucien Crochet 2004 Sancerre
Our First Sancerre, 8/10/06

$35.99, Roederer Estate, L’Ermitage 1999, Anderson Valley
Cristal Lite, 10/19/06
$54.99, 2004 Puligny Montrachet, Les Pucelles, Premiere Cru, Domaine Marc Jomain
Montrachet, 8/7/06

N.A, Muffo, Sergio Mottura Cantina
Honeymoon – Rome, Review not yet Posted

$79.99, 1966 Krohn Colheita Port
A Sublime Port, 10/6/06