2015, Lois Latour Grande Ardeche, Cote du Oc, France.

2015 Beckman Parisima Mountain Syrah, Santa Barbara, California.

Past couple of days:
Josh Cellars Chardonnay

2016 Howling Moon Pinot Noir

2017: 19 crimes red

2015, Bernard Ambroise Nuits St George, Nuits St George, Cote du Nuits, Cote du Or, Burgundy, France.

2016 Chateau Ste Michelle Chardonnay

2014 Mollydooker Blue Eyed Boy shiraz - love this stuff

2015, Domaine Raspail-Ay, Gigondas, Rhone Valley, France.

2016 Ledger David Malbec, not a big Malbec fan but this is just outstanding. They only made 120 cases and I got 3 bottles for $66 (member price)

20 Year Tawny Port by Graham’s. A very oaky Tawny with strong sweet notes.

2015 (Mazzei) Poggio Badiola

also not much of a merlot fan, but this is 70% sangiovese 30% merlot and good, at least with veggie pizza.

Other than on the right bank in Bordeaux in my opinion Merlot is a secondary blending grape. Though there are some upper end examples from Washington state that are quite good.

Sangiovese and Merlot are a rather nice combination in wines from Tuscany. The Merlot balances out the tartness of the Sangiovese. It also adds considerably more fruit to the nose.

Sangiovese based wines always work well with red sauces. They have enough acidity to compliment the tomatoes.

you are amazing. This was from "Toscana".

All Tuscan wines are Tuscana except one winery. It is allowed to use the term Tuscano. It made the favorite wines of a local prince during the middle ages and he bestowed that honor on them. The tradition is observed to this day. Tuscana is the IGT. IGT is the most basic of Italian wine classifications, but one that many wineries prefer to use. If they classify as a DOC, or DOCG their hands are tied with too many rules. For instance you could not blend Merlot with Sangiovese. But it runs much deeper than that. Basically you can only use the historical traditional indigenous grapes of the region. This is not necessarily bad, just limiting. Great Tuscany Italian wineries classified certain wines as IGT so they could use V Vinifera vines. For example super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia are classified as IGT.

Caidens Vineyards Block Nine Pinot Noir - not impressed

The rest of the LD Malbec and some homemade chili.

2014, St Damian Gigondas La Louisiane, Gigondas, France.

Sala Syrah 2012 - a bit disappointing at 6 years old

2017 Izadi Larrosa (Spain)

Spey, it's an Eric Solomon selection. Is that any more than hype to you?

Fank, if it is an Eric Soloman selection it will be good to excellent. That bottling is a wonderful rose made from old vine Granacha if memory serves.