Life is too short to drink bad wine

This is a basic red Burgundy. Such wines can be variable in quality, but this one delivers the goods. Delicate sweet raspberries and flowers on the nose. The colour is medium dark cherry red. The taste is very inviting with soft elegant tannins. A very nice wine indeed and a bargain at 14 euro with the poor Norwegians having to pay 260 NOK (33 euro) for this one. Cote de Nuits Village 2009, Patrice Rion A bargain if bought in France...

This is a "table wine" from Tuscany in Italy. Please do not be fooled by the fact that it does not have a DOC or DOCG status. The producer Fontodi knows what he is doing and this 100% Sangiovese has among others appeared 3 times in the top 10 wines of the Wine Spectator. He produces 5000 cases each of this winewhich can be stored around 10 to 12 years. This 2001 vintage was still in good shape with lovely red fruit and wet wool on the nose.The taste is almost like a claret with firm tannins craving for some nice meat. Flaccianello della Pieve 2001, Tuscany One of the best IGT's around... Fontodi azienda vinicola nel cuore del Chianti Classico - Panzano Toscana

Red Wine - Camere Rooms Zimmer This guest house is located in Annunziata just downhill from La Morra and 3km from Barolo. It has 6 nice rooms out of which 5 have a terrace and view over the Barolo vineyards. The RedWine is a bit misleading as the host does not speak English, but there is a lot of red wine in the area.... The rates are reasonable with prices varying from 80 to 100€ for a double room. Just close to the guest house you will find the Ratti producer as well as a very nice Osteria with a very good wine selection. In fact you can see both from the swimming pool....

Restaurant Bovio in La Morra which has the most wonderful of the Barolo vineyards has also the most amazing wine list! 48 pages packed with Barolo, Barberesco and other Italian and world wine is the most amazing list I have ever seen. For a wine lover it nearly brought tears to my eyes... Sooo difficult to choose because once you found a producer you liked, you had to decide on WHICH Barolo parcel you wanted and then the vintage! It was that kind of wine list! Truly wonderful....

Vacheron makes wonderful Sancerre white and red and this white from the 2011 vintage maintains the high quality that he delivers year after year. Zingy and zesty dry white wine perfect with white fish, prawns and scallop. Bone dry in fact but perfectly balanced. Domaine Vacheron 2011, Sancerre Just a perfect Sancerre...15€ or 190 NOK

We got this bottle for free while visiting the producer last weekend. Perhaps we bought too much of his beautiful Barolo? Incredible dark red and purple colour. The bouquet is just wonderful and dense with lots of dark berries and coffee, Sipping the wine and you get a long fruity taste, a great balance and velvety aftertaste.  Ca 12€ if you need to pay, great value for money. Barbera d'Alba 2009 by Damilano What a nice surprise! DAMILANO Barolo - Azienda Agricola Barolo

Barolo for lunch while you are in Barolo is just right isn't? Cannubi is one of the best plots in this wonderful place and together with the food at the Osteria Vignaiolo (Santa Maria) it was a wonderful experience. This is a superb wine with a very long aftertaste and some enormously balanced tannins! Beautiful red berries and rose on the nose. A truly lovely wine for 65€ in this great Osteria! Barolo Cannubi 2006 by Pira What a great experience... Home | Ristorante in La Morra (CN) - Italy | L'Osteria del Vignaiolo