Archive for January, 2012

 

A Wine for Tonight: 2008 Plantagenet Omrah Shiraz

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Would you like a quick suggestion for a good wine to drink tonight (or this weekend) that won’t break your budget and is widely available? Many of our readers have said this is something they would like, so here is this week’s selection, the 2008 Plantagenet Omrah Shiraz from the Great Southern region of Western […]

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An Unlikely Boutique: Sagemoor Vineyards

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Kori S. Voorhees, our Wine Peeps Editor-in-Chief, has been a contributor to Washington Tasting Room Magazine, a quarterly magazine that focuses on Washington State wine with articles about wineries, vineyards, travel, and lifestyle. The following article, written by Kori, appeared in the Summer 2011 issue. Northwest wineries have been banking on grapes from Sagemoor Vineyards […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Finish

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is finish. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Since this is an oft used wine tasting term, I was surprised to find that there was no entry for “finish” is The Oxford Companion to Wine. However, I did locate entries for “long” and “short” […]

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Happy 4th Birthday to Wine Peeps!

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Today marks four years since we started sharing our wine adventures with you here on Wine Peeps. What an exciting four years it has been! We have written 981 posts and tasted over 4,500 wines. We have had the pleasure to meet so many wonderful people in the wine industry as well as fellow wine […]

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A Wine for Tonight: 2008 Mission St. Vincent Bordeaux Rouge

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

Would you like a quick suggestion for a good wine to drink tonight (or this weekend) that won’t break your budget and is widely available? Many of our readers have said this is something they would like, so here is this week’s selection, the 2008 Mission St. Vincent Bordeaux Rouge from the Bordeaux region of […]

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Wine Peeps Top 10 Posts of 2011

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

As we begin a new year, it’s time for us to reflect on our body of work in 2011, what we’ve done well and where we can improve in 2012. If you have some suggestions, please tell us. When you’ve written as many posts as we have this past year, it is quite a project […]

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Wine Word of the Week: Balance

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

This week’s Wine Word of the Week is balance. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Wine tasters say that a wine has balance, or is well balanced, if its alcoholic strength, acidity, residual sugar, tannins, and fruit, complement each other so that no single one of them is obtrusive on the […]

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Best of 2011 in Washington Wine Country

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

After visiting more wineries and tasting more Washington wines than I can count, meeting many of the best winemakers in Washington, and walking the rows in many of the best known vineyards in the state, these are the Wine Peeps team’s picks as the best of 2011 in Washington Wine Country. BEST WINE: 2008 Rasa […]

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