On a recent trip to Northwest Iowa I stopped in a truckstop/convenience store that had a selection of Iowa wines. Not being one to pass up a chance to try a new wine I selected a couple different bottles. The first one I tried was “Lucy Lane” from Jasper Wineries. Their website [...]

Another of the $3.49 wines from Crane Lake; this time a Sangiovese. Tart, watery with a slight smoke and chocolate flavor. The tartness hangs around until the next drink. The flavor of this Sangiovese is very similar to others I have had in the past. I hadn’t drunk a Sangiovese until two years ago when [...]

I was cruising the wine department at the Marion Hy-Vee tonight in search of a “cheap, interesting” wine to try.  The Cycles Gladiator 2006 Syrah was on sale for $7.99  that qualifies as cheap!  The label has an artistic nude woman floating behind a winged bicycle.  I’m pretty sure that qualifies at interesting!
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I overheard a guy talking about these $3.49 bottles of wine in the HyVee liquor store a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the guy’s barber was recommending them. He was talking to one of the store employees who was so surprised by the price that she went back to verify the price! We were at [...]

Sycamore Lane is the house cabernet at Zio Johno’s.  Nothing else available by the glass stuck me as interesting and since Jennifer doesn’t enjoy wine a full bottle wasn’t an option.  As it was the house wine I didn’t see the bottle and thus don’t know the vintage.  It occurs to me that in the [...]