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I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate Earth Day than to pop open a nice bottle of  green wine.  I thought I would try the Les Tours Syrah 2007.  This is a wine deep red in color with cherries and blackberry flavor punched up with pepper and spices.  I appreciate the [...]

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Tonight Mrs. Grapeinabottle experimented with a new recipe, corn pudding. I must say it was a  perfect side dish with bar-b-que chicken and black-eyed peas and not as weird as it seems.  Really, it’s more like a corn dressing or stuffing with a nice sweetness.  We decided to pair this dinner with Wrongo Dongo 2006 [...]

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And now for a guest post from Mrs. Grapeinabottle:
Our local grocery is holding a fire sale on its holiday wine overstock.  And by fire sale, I mean selling its stock for pennies:  I purchased grapeinabottle and I two bottles of bubbly for less than $5, which includes the sale discount and my handy discount card.  [...]

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Brother and sister-in-law gave us this awesome Viva Italia box from Wine.com for Christmas.  Any thoughts on the bottles?  Which one should we try first?

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Tonight, Mrs. Grapeinabottle and I shared a great new bottle of wine while beginning our Christmas decorating. One reason we thought the wine was so good was the price. The Tisdale Shiraz from California was a steal at $3.33 a bottle.  It was on sale for three for $10, so I could not resist giving [...]

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