Archive for August, 2008

Aug 20 2008

2005 Cinnabar Mercury Rising Red

Published by mike under 2005, Buy-It

Andrew and I discovered this fantastic Red at Biaggi’s in Cedar Rapids at a wine tasting last year. Cinnabar Mercury Rising is a Red blend bottled by Cinnabar Cellars in Paso Robles.
It seems that all of the decent restaurants in CR are carrying this wine: Biaggi’s, Teddy’s, Daniel Arthur’s. So, it’s pretty cool that I [...]

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Aug 17 2008

2005 337 Cabernet Sauvignon

Published by mike under Buy-It, Cabernet Sauvignon

My wife and I learned about 337 at a wine tasting at HyVee two years ago. At that time the vintage was 2004. The story is that the grapes used for this wine are a clone of a French Cabernet called 337.
At that time it was our favorite wine and we discovered it about the [...]

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