Tag: red wine

MURPHY-GOODE Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

murphy goode

               Murphy-Goode Winery        Santa Rosa, CA 

                               MURPHYGOODE.COM

This wine owns a heavy leg but stands on the taste buds gracefully, reminding the senses of a bouquet of sweet berry tastes. The flavor doesn’t linger long on the red carpet, before it melts away, providing opportunity for another pleasurable encounter.

For under $13. this was a pretty good wine.

Murphy-Goode cab is not a bad wine, but if you like a heavier, full flavored red wine, then the Bodega ELENA de Mendoza offers a bit more bang for a little less bucks.

 

 

 

 

Las Rocas de San Alejandro 2009

la-roca-bottle_lar_garnachacalatayud_750_09_thumb

This product of Spain is a tasty red table wine.  

This wine is lighter than a Malbec or Cabernet and has thin streaky legs. The taste immediately reveals sweet berries and then lightly tapers with a fume of apricot and pear. Not heavy. Not too sweet

Great for day sipping, happy hour or with meals.  This wine would go well with a meat, cheese and olive platter as well as your favorite steak salad.

If you pay more than $10. it’s not a good deal. It is not the average bottle of wine, so be a unique wine buyer and try this.

 

 

Malbec – Bodega ELENA de Mendoza 2011

IMG_2930

Bodega ELENA de Mendoza 2011

Vinted and bottled by B.E.D.M. Wines

Imported by Wine Brokers Unlimited, Hayward, CA

Product of Argentina

This is the Dudes favorite Malbec yet! This is the first of the bottles that I have opened that came with a real cork. Good 1st impression. Upon tasting this wine, I was immediately aware that the taste game had changed.

The bar had been raised. This is serious wine. This full bodied wine smoothly drifts over your taste buds, dangling flavors of blackberries and plums, leaving a rejoicing smile and desire for more.

There was no crazy tinny aftertaste. This was immediately my new favorite Malbec.

If it is a dollar more than the other Malbec’s in this price range, pay it! Get this Malbec!

(Note)  April 2013 issue of Bon Appetite magazine includes McCormick gourmet selection recommending this wine also.

 

 

Malbec – Cupcake 2011

Grown in Mendoza, Argentina.

The Dude of Food Wine Review
Cupcake 2011

Imported by Cupcake Vineyards, Livermore, CA

Grown at 2,400 feet under the shadow of the snow covered Andes mountains, this Mendoza region wine is more talk than action. The back of the label mentions flavors of plums, raspberries and a dark chocolate flour less cupcake. Really?

This wine is priced in the reasonable to cheap category, but you get what you pay for in this case.

Prefer the Sensual or Robert Mondavi over this Cupcake.

Malbec – Robert Mondavi Private Selection 2011

Mendoza, Malbec  Product of Argentina

Red Wine Review
2011 Private Reserve

Imported by CWUS Imports, Acampo, CA

Another reasonably priced, Mendoza raised wine. This tastes very similar to the Sensual 2012 used as my Malbec standard to compare the other wines.

Grapey, but not overly. OK. Not sweet. Kind of flat. Short tongue life. On the heavy side ala a Cabernet Sauvignon.