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The 2013 SoMek Estate Winery Chardonnay from Zichron-Ya’akv, Israel had 13% alcohol, cost undr $20, and scored a nice 16+ points on the 20-point Dionysian scale. I aged…
Scoring 16+ Dionysian points, with 14% alcohol, and costing under $15, the 1999 Heliopoulos Vineyards Oak Aged Dry Wine from Santorini, Greece, showed extremely well. At 21 years old,…
The 1979 E. Guigal Cote-Rotie Cotes Brune et Blonde had 13% alcohol. It cost only $20 then, now worth a few hundred, and it scored 18+ points on the…
Costing about $17, with 14% alcohol, and scoring 17 points on the 20-point Dionysian scale, the 2013 Concha y Toro Grand Reserva Malbec, from Marchique, Chile is just…
The 2011 Leese-Fitch Pinot Noir from California has 13.5% alcohol, cost about $15, and scored a nice 15 points on the Dionysian scale. At nine years old, it…
All Burgundy is good – some are remarkable. The 37 year-old 1983 Joseph Drouhin Savignyu-Les-Beaune, cost under $20 back then, had 12.5% alcohol, and scored 18+ points on…
From Saint Julian in Bordeaux, with 12.5% alcohol,costing now about $225 for the Magnum, this 1982 Chateau Lagrange, at 38 years old scored 19 points on the Dionysian…
With too much alcohol, 15%, and costing near $45, the 2010 Corte Pavone Brunello di Montalcino, from a super-great vintage, scored 18 Dionysian points. It should have scored…
At a decade old, the 2009 Lang des Caillous Vacqueyras from the Rhone Valley, scored an excellent 18 Dionysian points out of 20. With 14% alcohol, and costing…
With 13% alcohol, costing under $25 on release, and scoring 18 points on the 20-point Dionysian scale, the 1997 Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva Ducale ,at 22 years old, was…