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2008 Banfi Rosa Regale

Price: $23.00
Varietal: 100% Brachetto d’Acqui
Region: Italy > Piemonte (Piedmont)
Website: www.rosaregale.com
Winemakers Notes: While it is appreciated as one of the few wines in the world that truly marries well with chocolate, especially dark or bittersweet, its charms extend across a palette of occasions and food pairings, from savory to sweet. On its own Rosa Regale is an elegant aperitif. Its fruity character beguiles the heat of spicy Asian and Latino fare, and its gentle acidity is an ideal foil to the piquant richness of goat cheese, especially in a spring mix salad with almonds and cranberries. Quiches, glazed hams, beets, vichyssoise, gazpacho, chowders and even the myriad of flavors at Thanksgiving dinner, all traditionally challenging wine matches, are enchanted by Rosa Regale. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, trifles and hazelnut tortes are all elevated by this frothy wine.

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2008 Zenato Valpolicella Classico Superiore

Price: $14.00
Varietal: 85% Corvina, 10% Rondinella, and 5% Sangiovese
Region: Italy > Veneto > Valpolicella
Website: www.zenato.it
Winemakers Notes: The nose offers supple fragrances of almonds and violets. Crisp and dry in the mouth, well structured, with a lovely, velvety texture. Ready to enjoy now, but can be cellared a few years.

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Episode 31: 2005 & 2008 Marqués de Cáceres Satinela

Price: $11.00
Varietal: 100% Malvasia Bianca
Region: Spain > Rioja
Website: www.marquesdecaceres.com

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2008 Quady Winery Electra Orange Muscat

Price: $10.00
Varietal: 100% Orange Muscat
Region: California
Website: www.quadywinery.com
Winemakers Notes: With the first sip you feel the wine-light as springtime, delicately sweet, refreshingly crisp, a bouquet of flowers with the taste of peach and melon. Electra is electricity for the mouth!

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2008 Chateau Ste. Michelle Columbia Valley Gewürztraminer

Price: $11.00
Varietal: 84% Gewurztraminer and 16% Muscat Canelli
Region: Washington > Columbia Valley
Website: www.ste-michelle.com

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