Saliero Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (2006)
December 6, 2007 — Tom & Melody
This Saliero Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2006 is very nice, tasting of chocolate and luscious dark fruit. It’s quite dry but not particularly tannic; it’s pleasantly soft. It’s extremely drinkable; a very pleasant Italian table red.
December 24, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Any clue where I might be able to purchase this wine?
Thank you for your help in advance.
John
December 24, 2007 at 3:16 pm
John, This wine came from a wine club. If you are interested in joining the wine club, let me know and I’ll send you all the details. We have enjoyed being members very much; we are able to get wonderful wines such as this one that are not available, generally, in stores.
January 13, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I also enjoyed this wine and would like to purchase more. Is this available in CT or NYS?
January 13, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Hi Tom, I’m sorry I don’t know about the availability of this wine in these states. Wish I could be more helpful.
January 16, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Hi Tom,
I just received this fine wine from my wine club (four seasons). I love this wine. It is excellent. So good I immediately searched the web looking to purchase more. No luck yet. The wine club does not have it listed for sell either. Not unusual since they often only offer it as part of a one time shipment so we get to try MANY different wines. But they doe not stock them…
January 16, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi Greg, We have a few bottles left in our supply. Where do you live?
Melody & Tom
January 19, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hi Tom, Concord NC
January 19, 2008 at 1:15 pm
OK Folks. I have found a source for this fine wine. Case Cost about $10 /per bottle plus shipping. Not sure if it will cost more for non members .
Where to order.
…Thank you for your recent email the 2006 Saliero Montepulciano d’Abrussz is available at the below pricing:
3 Bottles $34.95 (plus shipping and tax)
6 Bottles $59.95 (plus shipping and tax)
please contact us via e-mail at customerservice@4seasonswine.com or you may call us toll-free at (800) 649-4637.
Cheers!
4 Seasons Wine Club
Customer Service Department
Toll Free (800) 649-4637
Mon.-Fri. 7:30am-10:00pm CST
Sat.-Sun. 8:30am-5:00pm CST
January 19, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Way to go, Greg! Thank you for sharing this information.
February 8, 2008 at 5:23 pm
this is the wine club I purchased the wine from
February 9, 2008 at 8:53 am
Did you like it, Deb?
May 20, 2008 at 9:20 am
Any one know how long this wine will lay down? We have found nothing about the longevity.
Thanks,
Jeff & Maureen
May 21, 2008 at 7:45 am
Good question, Jeff & Maureen. Maybe one of our readers will have some good advice on this. Do you have a cellar?
May 21, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Reply long!
Or cellar is just a makeshift stack of heavy boxes in the appropriate temperature range in the basement. The boxes are labeled as to year and get moved in and out as they are emptied and filled with wines. Mostly dry reds of all sorts but an occasional white gets thrown in for good measure and company.
We attend a formal wine tasting every Friday at a relatively local wine shop, Bridgetown Finer Meats Wine Shop, on the west side of Cincinnati, OH. It is a social gathering as much as it is a wine tasting. Once a month they have a formal wine tasting dinner with wines pared to food and there is always a theme of country of origin or a comparison of similar wines from different regions, etc.
Our wine knowledge is limited as we don’t spend enough time actually studying the science of it. We are spoiled though as we have been to some great wine countries/regions and learned to love the dry reds. I have a brother living in the south of France close to the Spanish border,where we try to visit annually, ex-relatives in Chile that we see every couple years and a daughter that travels all over the world for work and brings home many good wines. We travel with some regularity to other countries and try to visit local wineries, not the BIG Guys, wherever we go.
Last Friday we attended a dinner party where every one, 5 couples, brought two bottles of the same red wine. The wines were wrapped so you could not see the labels. Every one tasted each wine and rated them on a scale of 1-10. Then the ratings were tabulated and the couple that brought the wine with the highest over all rating enjoyed the fruits of their labor by taking the second bottle of each wine home with them. We have been to other wine tasting dinners and Scotch tasting parties at friends homes but this was the first time in this fashion.
Hope I didn’t go too long here.
May 22, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Jeff & Maureen — Not too long at all. What a fascinating look at life in Cincinnati! You two know how to have a good time and have obviously hooked into a nice routine where you can regularly taste good wines with good company. And, another bonus is that you have family that travel or live abroad!
Like you, we also like reds so much that a white rarely makes it to our shelves.
The blind wine tasting party sounds excellent. What a great idea — an idea that maybe we’ll borrow one of these times.
Thanks for the very interesting post. Hope you come back often!
May 31, 2008 at 10:09 pm
We recently purchased a case of “Red Flyer” from Red Flyer, Gonzales, CA. on sale. Very nice every day sipping wine with a nice fruity note, strong on Cherry. Not a heavy dark red but just a nice wine. Had some with “T” Bone steaks and fresh corn on the cob this evening. Plus, I am sitting here, sipping the last of my glass while I write this. It does not state the grape on the label. The label is a humorous one with a flying saucer on the front and a paragraph on the back talking about futuristic cloning of vines and war of the worlds theme
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Monday, May 02, 2005
Red Flyer 2003 California Red Table Wine
Jeff & Maureen
A quote:
Red Flyer As I’ve mentioned, I’m often a sucker for an eye-catching label. But in this case, I would’ve probably walked on by had Grapevine not been doing tastings of Red Flyer on Saturday. The label was certainly eye-catching, but maybe just a bit too cheesy.
Somehow the name and the images don’t really go together in my opinion. When I think of a red flyer, I think of the old red Radio Flyer wagon I had as a kid. That just doesn’t go with the ‘War of the Worlds’ theme on the rest of the label.
Anyway, I generally wasn’t expecting much. But surprise, I really liked this! It’s a big fruit forward wine made up of Syrah, Mouvedre, Grenache, Carignan, and Clone X. Percentages apparently are proprietary. Balanced tannins and very pleasant hints of toasty oak. Their web site says this about Clone X: “Clone X, the secret ingredient, was smuggled from outer space in the hyperbolic chamber of one of the forward thinking grays.” Um, yeah.
The guy pouring the wine at GrapeVine says this comes from the folks at Hahn Estates. Click the label above though to go to the specially constructed Flashy web site for Red Flyer.
Price
$8.99.
Overall
I liked it a lot. For that price, I’ll likely go back for several more.
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2 Comments:
At 12:12 PM, Blogger Hipcheck said…
I had this the other night as well…surprisingly tasty. For the price it was wonderful.
At 9:46 PM, Blogger jason said…
If you liked this Red Flyer at $8.99 run to the nearest Trader Joe’s now as and grab a case at $2.99! I am sure to go grab a few more bottles…
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