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• By James Suckling
  11/2/2017 (link)

  (Los Vascos Carmenere Valle de Colchagua Grande Reserve, Red, Chile) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull 36 Bottles: Q1, 2/10/2019

  (Los Vascos (Lafite) Carmenere Grande Reserve) Hello friends. Once each quarter this year, we’ll be offering wines from 36 Bottles of Wine, my book that was released last September. We’re going to try to assemble all nine wines from the three months in question, but it won’t always be easy; some categories are only available during certain times of the year. My overarching goal is that we’ve offered all 36 wines at least once by the end of 2019. Also, if you read the book over the holidays and enjoyed it, please consider writing a review on Amazon or Goodreads. It’ll help other like-minded folks discover the title. Thank you! Now, onto the wines (and book). We’ve managed to source eight of the nine wines from Jan/Feb/Mar. The only exception is Grignan-les-Adhemar, which is a category we’ve had success offering in the past. I’ll continue looking for a bottle of Grignan, and in the meantime, I hope those of you who purchased the book will enjoy following along. [Excerpts from the book will be in italics. Copyright 2018 By Paul Zitarelli. All rights reserved. Excerpted from 36 Bottles of Wine by permission of Sasquatch Books.]February red: Chilean Carmenere. Carménère has a wonderful savory edge that expresses itself through notes of roasted herbs and tomatoes and smoldering leaves. Slow-braising some tough cut of meat to fork-tenderness in a mix of Carménère, herbs, and tomato paste is my ideal way to spend a February Sunday, and if a drop or two eludes the braising pot and slips into a glass, well, Sunday is still technically the weekend.