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Sharing wine between friends makes everything better. Sharing wine, friends and food makes everything seem for a moment perfect. At least that's how i feel when I'm surrounded by good friends good wine and good food.

I had high hopes for the wine of the week the Coppola Claret, i really did. I don't know what it was for me but with those high hopes might have been added because the price at the local grocery store by me was $21.00 yikes. I am not a high paying actress yet so yeah 21 bucks for wine is rough. However, if it is an amazing wine then you forget the dollar signs with ever sip until you have to pay your bills and you realize you're broke!!!! But, with all that said and done lets get back to the real reason of why I'm writing this blog ah yes the WINE!

I opened the bottle like any good Italian woman would and smelled the cork(which was stained a deep purple). I poured the wine into three different glasses(not just for me so mom don't worry) and had everyone taste. The color was a rich purple and flawless. I have never actually caught myself staring at the color of the wine in my glass before. Most of the time i worry about whether my glass is half full or half empty(depending on the mood of the day) or if my dad has mistakenly taken mine again! But, the color was beautiful. Flawless even. The aroma was a mixture of floral but not sweet floral just the smell of flowers and oak and i hate to say a bit of rubbing alcohol. Trust me i drank and smelled this wine on three different occasions just praying i was wrong but each time the same result.

So here goes the first sip. The smelling is over and for what I thought was a strong scented wine the flavor wasn't a match. It was rather BLAH. I don't know if it was blah because i was expecting a full bodied wine but it was just ehhh in my book. I am sorry but i am someone who enjoys a good full bodied wine once and awhile and it didn't add up it was a shock. I tried it three times just to be sure. Also, when i scored it by the scale my sister posted it did well. But, by the Lindsay taste bud test it scored a 70%. Trust me if there is anything i learned in my many years of school grades don't mean everything! Sorry old teachers but they just don't.

In conclusion, I don't believe for the price its something I will invest in again. I got a good flavorful red that's cheaper sitting on my counter that has been a favorite of mine for a while.

So better luck next week dear taste buds. Until then I guess there's nothing a little Frank and glass of old faithful cant fix. May you have a wonderful week.

Coppola Wines

I didn't try this wine because I tried one of Coppola's wine a couple years ago. It was a Zinfadel. I found it harsh and not really appealing and in retrospect, over priced.

Hopefully the next wine will be more appealing.

Coppola 2008 Claret - Jennifer's review

Well, after the Chicago Bears crushing loss to the Green Bay Packers I though I would drown my sorrows in this week's pick, the 2008 Francis Coppola (which I picked in honor of my sister, Lindsay, who is an aspiring actress in LA and the person who came up with the idea for this fun blog).   A bottle of the 2008 Claret runs about $12 at your local Costco retailer.  A claret is a Cabernet Sauvignon-based wine blended in a Bordeaux style.  The Bordeaux style blend, as I understand it, means that they have blended Cabernet sauvignon with Merlot along with varying percentages of Cabernet Frac, Petit Verdot and/or Malbec in an attempt to create a more complex, sophisticated and elegant wine.

I chose to decant it for about 30 minutes before drinking .  When we all were talking about how we would rate the wines my father, Jim, found http://www.wineloverspage.com/tastfrm1.htm that we could all use to have a common ground on which we would rate the wines.  I did use this form and found it to be helpful. 

So, for the taste test.  I thought that the wine looked great.  It was a nice deep red and didn't have any impurities.  I thought that the aroma was very woodsy/oaky that smell was the overwhelming smell that blocked out any fruit scent for me.  The flavor was full bodied and rich, as it should be, and the flavor definitely matched the aroma.  For my personal taste, it was a much heavier wine than I am accustomed to drinking.  The aftertaste was also very strong, which I didn't care for.  My overall impression was that it was average.  It wasn't terrible, by any means, but it lacked complexity and was some what single note to me.  On the Parker Scale my ratings came out to an 80.  I would recommend this wine to anyone that loves rich, earthy reds.  Would I buy it again, maybe.  I would have to be in the mood for it.  It isn't a wine I would drink all the time.

Until next week, cheers!

It all started with a Resolution

Many New Year's go by and you make those fake promises to yourself like "I'm going to lose two dress sizes,'' or "I'm going to be a bigger and better business person" or even my personal favorite, "I'm going to meet the person of my dreams this year." Instead of making a New Year's Resolution, my idea was to not make one. Plain and simple, and I couldn't fail at that, could I? Well I did, and its not even February. So way to go me!

I failed because a dear friend of mine suggested to me what just might be the best resolution I've ever heard. She said this year our resolution should be to try ever single wine located in the wine aisle of our local grocery store. Brilliant!!!! What a great idea. This combines two of my favorite hobbies: drinking wine and shopping. Done! While brainstorming a little bit more looking up and down the aisle I realized I haven't even tried a fraction of what's out there. I'm pretty sure not many people have. Because you find something you like you stick with it. Also with the economy the way it is, spending money on a good bottle of win is tough. You don't want to buy a piece of shit bottle of wine for cheap, but you also don't want to spend twenty dollars of your hard earned money on something that might taste like shit too.

So this is where the Idea came from two poor ladies in love with wine who choose to broaden their horizons on the good, the bad and the overpriced.

So here's the concept: four people(no real names) go out and buy a different wine every week, taste it and give their opinions. We write the blogs, taste the wine and share what we think goes best with it if we like it, ect ect ect. Simple, delicious and just plain fun.

Now, for the readers I cannot stress this enough. This is just a matter of opinion. We are not doing this to hurt any vineyards feelings or shut companies down. This is just for fun and maybe will help those looking for a decently priced bottle of win. That's it! Also, each person is going to have their own opinion about the wine. Not every one's taste buds are the same so not every one's critique is going to be the same. If you want to go out and try a wine, do it and send us your opinion. This is just something nice to bring the loved ones together in spirit(or spirits,literally) while they are separated by states!!