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Fresh & Easy Wine Reviews
http://freshandeasywinereviews.blogspot.com/
These reviews are for people who regularly like to pick up a bottle of wine with their dinner, and want some assistance in picking one from Fresh & Easy's selection.
The blog focuses on value - that is price + drinkability, because that is what to expect from Fresh & Easy.
- Added on: Nov 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: sbirdsall
- Listed in: Wine Personal
- Tags: Wine value wine review fresh & easy freash and easy
Recent Posts
Ogio 2007 IGT Primitivo - ~$5
Here's another pleasant surprise from Italy. I've had Fresh and Easy's Ogio Pinot Grigio and found it banal. Not so with the Primitivo. For those in need of an introduction, the Primitivo grape is a Zinfandel clone, grown pretty much exclusively...
Re Del Castello 2007 Chianti Classico - ~$10
I'm a sucker for Italian wines and so I had high hopes for this Fresh & Easy Chianti Classico. That said, I was a bit skeptical of the quality of a CC for ~$10. In the end ...... high hopes realized! This is a tasty red wine, fu...
Clairville 2007 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon - ~$10
I thought this Alexander Valley Cab might be the second of a sort of “matched set” with Fresh & Easy’s Small Wonders Chardonnay, given that they’re the first wines at Fresh & Easy from single appellations in Sonoma County, they arrive...
Small Wonders Chardonnay - ~$14
This Chardonnay is pretty new to Fresh & Easy’s shelves. Now, at ~$14 this wine is not cheap by Fresh & Easy standards, but a comparable wine – that is to say, a Chardonnay from Sonoma’s Russian River Valley – would run you ~$20+ at Fry’s ...
Recoleta 2008 Malbec/Bonarda - ~$5
Given the grapes here – Malbec and Argentina’s other reclaimed European grape, Bonarda – I was expecting that this bottling from Mendoza would be something of a fruit bomb. Certainly there’s some fruit here – notably bright Bing cherry –...
Reflexión - Rioja Reserva for ~$10
There was a bit hoopla surrounding this wine after it received a score of “90” in the Wine Advocate. Fresh & Easy-generated hoopla, but hoopla nonetheless. Just to be clear, the “90” is a score from Jay Miller, who cover...
