Friday, December 21, 2007

Vino 100

Chateau Beauchene, Grand Reserve 2003 CDR
Around $15
Shane’s Notes

Jen and I were doing some Christmas shopping in Los Altos over the weekend. Jen loves her Radko Christmas ornaments and we found some great ones. We also found a new wine shop called Vino 100. The idea behind this wine store is that they will always have 100 wines in stock that cost less than $25. They have an excellent selection and most wine regions from around the world are well represented. The wines are rated on two scales – light to full body and fruity to dry. The “fruity to dry” scale doesn’t make any sense to me as sweet is the opposite of dry. After all, many wines are dry and fruity. Anyway, we bought several bottles (although our wine fridge is practically full) including this Cotes du Rhone.

This was a very good Rhone for the price. It showed sweet, spicy black raspberry with hints of blood orange and smoke. In the under $25 range, it is hard to beat the two R’s – Rhones and Rieslings (German).

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