A few days ago, I blogged about being able to buy the 2007 vintage Vina Aguia Rioja Reserva. Today, I went back to the Costco in Greenville SC to stock up on that wine while it is still on sale. I found a lot of 2009 vintage in the cases that I could easily get to. The cases were stacked one on the other, but I searched until I found 2007 wine and was able to remove some from a lower case. If you are interested in this wine, it will pay to search for the 2007 vintage.
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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