We were very lucky to get this wine, and the luck runs deep with this purchase. As you already know, if you’ve read this blog at all, we’re relatively new to “the serious” wine scene. As such, we don’t have a cellar with 10+ year old wines to pull from, from time to time. That day will come eventually, but for now, we’re stuck trying to find those wines for a price we can afford… because we tend to like them quite a bit. Of course with age comes risk – risk of spoilage. We don’t know how this wine was stored all these years. Lucky for us, apparently it was stored well.
I got this wine during K&L’s Italian wine clearance sale. The original price was $17 and was on sale for 4 BUCKS! I figured, for 4 bucks my expectations would be low and it wouldn’t matter much if it was spoiled or just not that great. But we totally hit paydirt with this one.
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