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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 Dr. Loosen Riesling

Price: $11.99
Varietal: 100% Riesling
Region: Germany > Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
Alcohol: 8.5%
Website: www.drloosen.com

Tad’s Rating: Like It
Patrick’s Rating: Love It
John’s Rating: Like It

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Topic: Wine and the Holidays – In this episode we have decided to get with the season and discuss wine and the holidays.

Tasting: 2007 Banfi Rosa Regale

Price: $22.99
Varietal: 100% Brachetto d’Acqui
Region: Italy > Piemonte (Piedmont)
Website: www.rosaregale.com

Tad’s Rating: Love It!
Patrick’s Rating: Love It

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Wassail:
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www.ehow.com/how_4670444_wassail-traditional-christmas-drink.html
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www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/eggnog-recipe2/index.html
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I picked this bottle of Edmeades Zinfandel up a couple of years ago at a wine sale. It had been sitting in my wine cooler until on a whim I decided to open it up. Boy, was I ever surprised.

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Topic: Discussion on the basics of how to properly taste wine.

Tasting: 2007 Lo Duca Bros. Mamertino

Price: $12.99
Varietal: Biancale and Trebbiano
Region: Italy > Emilia-Romagna

Tad’s Rating: Like It
Patrick’s Rating: Love It

Tip: In order to properly appreciate a wine’s color and nose, never fill you glass more than 1/3 full.

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