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Wine of the Week

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Aug 12, 2008
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If you're grilling beef or lamb this week (or smoking ribs), snatch a bottle of the Arboleda Merlot 2005, from Chile's Casablanca Valley,

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from a shelf. This sleek beauty teems with black currents and black cherries, leather and violets, cedar and black olive, the latter an attractive note that we rarely encounter in merlots from California. This is a re…

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