Wine Spectator Magazine annually selects their top 100 wines of the year. They have published this list in the last week and their magazine is now free online so that you can see their top 100 list. This will be available only for the next 2 weeks. Most of the wines on the list are well above our $20 limit but there are a few below that price. One wine that is available at Costco for a very affordable price is the Norton Reserve Malbec. It is in my wine rack waiting for a special occasion.
It has been a little over 3 months since I last posted on this blog. I have taken that time to enjoy old favorites as well as wines bought directly from wineries. I needed a break from trying a lot of unfamiliar wines so that I might have something new to write about. However, now I am planning a live video post for the OlliLife newsletter at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University about value wines from lesser known wine regions and this will require Wine Jane and I to do a lot of research. Well, someone has to do it! There are few places that have as much affordable quality wine as Spain. The best known wines from Spain come from areas like Rioja in the northern part of Spain. However, even greater values can be found further south in the areas bordering the Mediterranean Sea. One such area is Yecla, about 50 miles inland from the sea. In the past seven years, I have posted about four wines from Yeccla. All have been blends of the traditional Spanish g
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