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Beer & Spirits
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FiftyFifty Brewing Company Eclipse Imperial Stout (Stout Brewed With Honey) (Aged In Oak Barrels) (Blue Wax = Old Fitzgerald Barrel) American Double/Imperial Stout California 9.5% 22oz, Single $30.99 Big pour gets you maybe half a finger of dark brow
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Tasting Notes
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2009 Big Basin Rattlesnake Rock Syrah-Elegant, perfumed nose of lilac, boysenberry, pipe smoke, violet, kirsch, and mineral. Tightly wound mouth of above with licorice, underbrush and tarry notes. Medium weight and precise. Lithe and elegant with sil
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Tasting Notes
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Tues (4/1) Visiting w/ HardyWallace/Dirty&Rowdy When I looked at my schedule for Tues shortly before my trip, I realized that my Tues morning was badly underscheduled. What to do? So I hastly arranged a visit that morning w/ Hardy
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Italiana
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Ruby red in the glass. Very floral and sensuous nose of violets, red raspberry, red cherry, sandalwood, dried tea, rose petal, and dusty earth. Palate mimics the nose with nice additional notes of tobacco, charcoal, forest floor, and dried spice. Sub
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Tasting Notes
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Impenetrable black in the glass. Complex nose of black raspberry, cherry kirsch, tar, coffee, black pepper, molasses, and sweet spice. Huge, big fruited mouth of above with loads of ripe black cherry, chicory, melted tar, and spice. Very Aussie like.
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Value Wines < $20
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Ciao, 2012 Truett Hurst, "The Criminal" Red Blend, Dry Creek Valley, 15% abv. Don't know what the retail on this would be and don't care, just another over ripe, over "oaked" (and I use that term with caution) fruit bomb. Really, whoever is res
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