Trader Joe's is offering the 2013 Spiral Cellar Chardonnay Napa Valley for this Thanksgiving season. This is a lightly oaked, slightly creamy Chardonnay that exhibits abundant tropical fruit aromas and flavors. At $7.99, this can be a great everyday Chardonnay but is also special enough for your holiday meal. If you are a Chardonnay drinker, you will want to give this a try.
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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