Title: Wine, Chocolate and BBQ
Location: Lodi, California
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Description: Our wonderful Lodi Wineries will be offering tastes of their delicious Lodi wines paired with various chocolate treats. Enjoy winery activities, including barrel tasting, new releases, wine and food pairings, special events and live music throughout the weekend.
Start Date: 2009-02-14
Start Time: 11:00
End Date: 2009-02-15
End Time: 16:00

If you’re one of those who never believed in or wondered why you’re suppose to decanter wine… We’ll answer all your decanting questions in under 2 minutes.

I find the three biggest influences over my selection of a wine are the picture on the label, the price and the little I can remember reading in various wine magazines. But over the weekend I found one sage piece of advice I’m pretty sure will hold up for all of us… It comes from Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher, well known well reviewers.

“When it comes to less expensive wines, we’d avoid wines where cute animals seem to be the main point of the wine.”

No mincing words there…

If you’re looking for further proof the big trend in 2009 is going to be affordable wines, look no further than the local drug store… Just back from Longs Drugs, one of the big chain stores and the place is teeming with wines listed as $10 and under… Only a few months ago it was packed with award-winning wines starting at $20…

Trader Joes, the grocery chain best know for two buck Chuck, (their private label of wines costing $2) now offers more wines than ever under $10…

The New York Times is reporting consultants and wine shops across America are seeing the same trend… We all seem to be looking for a less expensive bottle of wine…

If you’re interested in what the NY Times had to say, click here…

If you know the name of a good wine under $10, leave it in the comments section.

And if you’re looking for great wine advice and an outstanding podcast, check out Wine Library TV by clicking here…