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Goodies for an unscientific experiment on Saturday. #2014vintage #beaujolais #expandingthepalate #winesofinstagram #wineporn

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Musings, tastings and wine news from Alicia Cypress. Simply put, wine makes me happy, so I’m experimenting.

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A lazy Susan full of @bedrockwines with a visit from @underthewirewine made for a fabulous Saturday night. The 2011 Syrah is yet another reason why the cold rainy vintage is my absolute favorite and the 2019 tribute to Frank Evangelho had an aroma that confirms why I adore everything coming from this vineyard. Scroll for delicious sparklers, and more! One final night at @estadiodc last night before this institution closes next week. Hard to put into words how special this place has been in different eras of my DC life! All my thanks and love to Jennifer and @nadinewinebrown for letting us celebrate one more time and a special thanks to @maxkuller for creating this gem, teaching us the power of the Porrón, and keeping the Manchego cheesecake on the menu all this time! I guess this means we all have to start planning trips down to Charleston! 🥂 A delicious midweek winter 🧀 feast by way of a traditional Raclette meal to celebrate @swissmissexplorations next journey! Amazing🍷 from @enfieldwineco and @pattes_loup paired well with all the traditional fixings!  So much fun planning (I sent everyone home with party favors!) and having everyone around the same table to celebrate! Scroll for some of the details! Apparently the only bottles I’ve opened so far in 2023 are black and white labels! Fortunately, the wine inside opened up a greater rainbow: beautiful herbal greens in this 2015 @fosse_seche, bright red strawberries in the 2019 @kelley_fox_wines and incredible blues and purple fruit in the 2018 #hervesouhaut. Can’t wait to see what else emerges this year! Happy 2023! 🥂🍷🎉 A special @winecoyeah tasting with the one and only @dirtysouthwine here in D.C.!!! Thank you, Hardy for traveling all this way, sharing your delicious wines, and letting us experience all your amazing energy in person! ❤️✨🍷(Also fun to see folks from all those pandemic zooms in 3-D!) For those curious about the wines, it was all amazing but there’s something so special about that 2021 Evangelho! It made me weak in the knees! 🥂 Continuing my dive back into California Pinot Noir with a 2014 @enfieldwineco Antle Vineyard (Chalone) Pinot Noir. Elegance at its finest! 🍷 Impromptu Saturday afternoon wine with friends should happen more often! Thank you @jamiessocks and @ratherbeina2 for sharing this absolutely stunning bottle of 2010 McDougall Ranch Pinot from @jamiekutch! Impossible to believe we drank the same vintage seven years ago! It was a show stopper then, and even more so now! Just beautiful! 🍷While not easy to follow, a second bottle was needed after we devoured the Kutch, and this Collecapretta Il Rossodatavola was quite worthy of the task!🍷(Now if only I could find more of these bottles in DC! This producer was one of my favorite finds in Boston!) A fun mini-celebration of women winemakers/ women-owned wineries as part of a DC Go Red for Women event for the American Heart Association. Great to finally taste @gotherewines, the latest vintage of @earlymountain and try @lakewoodvineyards and @oceanowines. I was also the proud winner of the woman-winemaker lot as part of the silent auction. Wine and a worthy cause brought a lot of warmth to this chilly night. 🥂♥️🍷 There’s only one wine to pair with a night of watching election results come in: @winecoyeah’s 2021 Local Election! Cheers! 🍷🗳🍷

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