What follows is a list of wines we hope to taste. These are in no particular order, nor do we actually know whether we’ll be able to find them or not. Oh well… should you have others you’d like to have us try please drop a line via our contact page and we’ll add them!  Even better send some our way and we’ll taste them, review them and let you know what we think!

1. Alamos- Argentina Bonarda Mendoza 2006
2. Alamos- Argentina Cab. Sauv. 2006
3. Columbia Crest 2 Vines- Washington Vineyard 10 Red 2005
4. Cono Sur- Chile Riesling 2007
5. Crossroads- New Zealand Sauv. Blanc 2007
6. Finla Sophenia- Argentina Cab. Sauv. 2006
7. First Drop First Love Red- Australia 2006
8. House Wine- Washington White 2006
9. Mont Gras- Chile Cab. Sauv. 2006
10. Nobilo- New Zealand Sauv. Blanc 2007
11. Peter Lehmann- Australia Cab. Sauv. 2005
12. Snoqualmie Whistle Stop- Washington Red 2006
13. Terrazas- Argentina Cab. Sauv 2006
14. Walnut Block- New Zealand Sauv. Blanc 2007
15. Zeal- New Zealand Sauv. Blanc 2007

One of the best items for saving marginal red wines is a good funnel.

Finding bad tasting red wines has never really been a problem; but, making them worth drinking can be tricky. We won’t pretend to know the reasons why funnels and aeration work, but they can, and often do! Interestingly, we have discovered that muliple aerations can save a truly miserable wine from the sink. And since wine, even reasonably priced wine, is not free; saving it is a good thing!

Wine funnels come in all prices but $20 will get you a very fine specimen. It is best to get a funnel that has both a screen (to catch unwanted wine chunks) and an indirect exit from the bottom of the funnel, causing the wine to ‘spray’ out inside your decanter (yes, keep the down spout inside a decanter unless you like cleaning the floor).

An item worth noting is that funnels are not supposed to help white wines very much. Hmmm, maybe we should test that theory out. When we do we’ll post our highly scientific results here!

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