The Gaucho Club Malbec 2007 Review
Author: The Frugal Wino
The Gaucho Club Malbec 2007 750ml Mendoza Argentina
The Argentina Malbecs are becoming a favorite of the frugal wine drinkers because of their excellent taste to price value.
The Gaucho Club Malbec is excellent. When I first uncorked this I expected to be disappointed… The price was cheap, the label looked a little cheesy to me and I thought here is a poor play on the Argentinian Gaucho used to ride the Malbec craze.
Woops! Totally wrong. The first Malbec I had tried was very good and $16.99. This one at $9.99 with a $2 off coupon making it $7.99 was better. I picked mine up at a local Publix supermarket.
If you like Cabernet’s, Zinfandel’s or a Shiraz you should give this Argentina Malbec a try.
Your taste buds will be delighted and your wallet will be estatic.
This wine was the Las Vegas Reviews Wine of The Week.
~ The Frugal Wino
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Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Author: The Frugal Wino
Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008 Southern Australia Review
An Audio Quickie (everybody has time for a quickie).
Here I talk about the amazing taste when you pair the Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet with… a Reeses Peanut Butter cup.
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Corked Wine
Author: The Frugal Wino
Is Your Wine Corked
Here is a video quicky on checking wine before you purchase.
Turns out this wine was corked even tough it seemed OK from a simple check. It was not “badly” corked but still… it was compromised and a bit off so it was returned. You saw the cork in the video. I cut the cork in half and indeed it was stained in several cracks that ran through the body of the cork.
A corked wine has been exposed to a cork infected with a fungus that produces 2,4,6-trichloroanisole or TCA. The chemical gives it the off smell. Like wet dog, wet cardboard or newspaper.
Up to 4 or 5% of all bottles of wine are corked. This bottle was Frei Brothers Reserve Syrah Russian River Valley 2006 Northern Sonoma. It’s an excellent wine we have had before and I was opening this one to do a review.
Woops… I will do one later.
Turning the label is not fool proof as you saw. Sometimes you will need to grip the top label firmly to turn it & thats fine. However if the neck wrap starts to tear from being stuck to the neck you may want to try another bottle. A cork pushed up even a little bit is typically a sure sign.
A bottle that is not full to near the bottom of the neck/cork may be a sign of having been overheated during transport leading to a corked or cooked bottle.
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