TASTING REPORT BEST VALUE Mastroberardino Fiano di Avellino, $22, *** ½ Radici 2007 Fresh, lively, textured and balanced with flavors of nuts, smoke and minerals.
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Tasting Report: Cocktail Makings With the Taste of Morning's Juice Belvedere Cytrus Poland 80 proof $40 ** 1/2 Creamy and balanced with well-integrated aromas and flavors of citrus and flowers.
Tasting Report: Plays Well With Ice Cream Sprecher (Glendale, Wis).
Tasting Report: Careful, These Are Beers That Can Bite Dogfish Head $3.50, 12 oz.
Tasting Report: Santa Barbara County Strikes the Right Balance Fess Parker Sta.
Tasting Report Mas La Mola, $36, *** Priorat 2005 Dense, rich fruit flavors yet savory with lingering meaty, mineral flavors.
Tasting Report Montecastro, $40, *** Ribera del Duero 2005 Dark and dense with rich, spicy fruit; developing complexity.
Tasting Report BEST VALUE Laphroaig Islay, $45, *** ½ 10 Years, 43% Heavily smoked, richly medicinal, savory, subtle, complex and deep.
Tasting Report Domaine Madeloc Collioure, $26, *** Cuvée Serral 2006 Juicy, spicy fruit flavors tempered by aromas of tobacco and licorice.
Tasting Report: Crozes-Hermitage, Flavors From the Rhone Paul Jaboulet Aîné Domaine de Thalabert 2003 $35 *** Wild and meaty flavors.
