A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Southern Italian Basic Red

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A Southern Italian Basic Red

I am quite a fan of fine Italian wine, and have managed to taste and review at least one wine from each of Italy’s twenty regions. This column has examined several bargain Italian wines. Today we look at a red wine [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – An Alsatian (France) Sylvaner

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – An Alsatian (France) Sylvaner

For many years I have enjoyed and reviewed many wines from Alsace, France with their distinctively shaped bottles and sometimes, but not always, their distinctive taste. This is the first time in recent memory that I have found one for under . [...]

Holiday Wine & Liquor Weekly Tip – Sweet Wines

This week we go over some great sweet wines to help you satisfy that sweet tooth!Video Rating: 0 / 5

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – An Inexpensive Chianti

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – An Inexpensive Chianti

I remember Chianti decades ago. This not very special wine came in straw-covered bottles. It was often consumed in Italian restaurants sporting red and white checkered tablecloths. Perhaps as a forerunner to greener times, empty bottles were converted into lamps or simply stoppered [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Review Of $10 Wines – A Venetian Rose

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Review Of Wines – A Venetian Rose

I am somewhat surprised that after reviewing nearly two dozen cheap wines this will our first rose. Don’t get me wrong, many roses fall within our limit. Roses are usually associated with warm weather and in this part of the world spring is [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Spanish White Verdejo

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A Spanish White Verdejo

It may be kind of hard to believe but even after some six months this is only our second Spanish wine and our first Spanish white. Spain is of course a major wine producer. Marques de Riscal, the makers of the wine [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Grapey Hungarian White

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A Grapey Hungarian White

Very early in this series I reviewed a quite inexpensive Hungarian Rizling, also spelled Riesling. Now it’s time to review another Hungarian white, based on the unknown Irsai Oliver grape. Given its name, we may assume that these grapes come from near [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A White Zinfandel From Beringer

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A White Zinfandel From Beringer

In this article we are going to be tasting a rose wine, with a white name that comes from a red grape. Zinfandel is perhaps America’s only indigenous European-style grape variety. It makes fruity, powerful red wines. But it also is [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Red Blend Of Portuguese Port Grapes

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A Red Blend Of Portuguese Port Grapes

The wine reviewed below comes from the Duoro Valley region of Northern Portugal, which is a region known for Port and both red and white wine. This wine comes from four local grapes, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz [...]

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Serbian Riesling

A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide To Wines – A Serbian Riesling

This is our first review of a wine from Serbia, a small country in southeastern Europe in the former Yugoslavia. Fruska Gora means Frankish mountain in the local language. This region lies along the Danube to the northeast of Serbia’s capital Belgrade. It [...]