30 - Wednesday, March 17, 1999 - North Shore News

Roop

Warming
up with
bottled
sunshine

John Mocre
WINE SPOTS

THE Christmas Visa
bill has dropped like
the proverbial other
shoe, spring is one cold
month away and “God
forgot to turn off the
tap,” the kids complain
when they have to play
inside all day.

You need something
cheap and cheerful, a little
bottled sunshine to warm the
soul while you bank up the
fire and sulk?

Try these:

@ Caliterra Chardonnay
Reserva 1996 $12.95
(Chile)

Excellent, well-balanced
chardonnay with crisply
defined fruit, citrus and
vanilla notes predominating,
against a restrained backdrop
of American oak.

Tastes more like
California, really; no big sur-
prise since Robert Mondavi
is a joint venture player in
Caliterra, part of the “if you

“Need something
cheap and
cheerful... to
warm the soul
while you bank
up the fire
and sulk?

can’t beat em, buy *em™
movement that has a lot of
French winemakers trolling
South America with Spanish-
French dictionaries in their
shaving kits.

@ Robert Mondavi
Coastal Cabernet
Sauvignon 1995 $21.95
(California)

In spite of his joint ven-
tures with Rothschild and
the Chileans, Mondavi hasn’t
lost his creative touch at
home, branching out from
his Napa stronghold with
this “cool climate” take on a
grape he’s already done suc-
cessfully in his best-selling
Woodbridge and Napa ver-
stons,

Like most cool climate
wines, this one comes down
heavier on spicy rich black-
currant fruit, fresh and full
frontal, minus the toasty tin-
ish of wines from the hot
interior valleys.

Hor climate wines taste
“mature” sooner, but are apt
to lose their legs after a
decade. This one could last
longer if you can wait, but
it’s a lovely mouthful of sun-
shine concentrate right now.

Just the thing to wash
down those out-of-season
strawberries you treated
yourself to.

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SAVE up to $2.30

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