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1. Rancho Zabaco 2006 Dancing Bull Zinfandel, price: 10 Layered with spicy black pepper, fruit flovors and vanilla, this bottle offers an all over the place experience that hits every part of the palate. After all, you can’t expect a dancing bull to stay contained in just one spot. Among its distinct fruit tastes, blackberry, black cherry, raspberry and strawberry are all clearly discernable. It’s unique life-giving zest can bring out the best of almost any heavy dinner entre, though this bottle is perhaps best paired with intense meats and rich sauce pastas, to better hold up against the Dancing Bulls inimitable taste. It has been said to be a particularly nice complement to barbecue flavored dishes. Read the rest of this entry »

Taking home 14 spots in Wine Spectator‘s 2009 list of the Top 100 Wines, an annual tradition by the highly regarded magazine, the Columbia Crest Winery has firmly established its position as one of the premiere wine producers in the United States, perhaps even worldwide. If capturing 14 of the top 100 wasn’t enough to impress the top wine connoisseurs of the world, Columbia Crest put an exclamation point on its year by registering the top rated wine on the list, its Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley Reserve 2005. Read the rest of this entry »