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Reds You've Never Heard Of

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It's all about keeping an open mind when you look for value. Click the links to purchase Al and Hugh's recommendations at Kenilworth Wine & Spirits.

The Wines

Price key:  $=less than $20  $$= $20-40   $$$=$40-60  $$$$=above $60

Quality key:  * = decent wine   ** = very good wine   *** = superb wine   ****= elite   

Kinoa Lemberger, Red Mountain AVA, Washington St. '15** $

A very good red wine with a goofy name, try it, you'll like it!

Esporão Trincaderia, DOC Altentejo '16 **1/2  $  VALUE

A light an llively Portuguese red that is a pleasure to drink.

Encontro Q do E Merlot-Baga, DOC Bairrada '14 **1/2 SUPER VALUE

Light and lively, with great depth of fruit flavor, really nice.

Viña de Campa Mencia, DO Ribeiro '15 **1/2 $

Imagine merlot and garnacia combined; lush red with tons of flavor

Al Spoler, well known to WYPR listeners as the wine-loving co-host of "Cellar Notes" has had a long-standing parallel interest in cooking as well. Al has said, the moment he started getting serious about Sunday night dinners was the same moment he started getting serious about wine. Over the years, he has benefited greatly from being a member of the Cork and Fork Society of Baltimore, a gentlemen's dining club that serves black tie meals cooked by the members themselves who are some of Baltimore's most accomplished amateur cooks.
As General Partner of Clipper City Brewing Company, L.P., Hugh J. Sisson is among Baltimore's premier authorities on craft brewing and a former manager of the state's first pub brewery, Sissons, located in Federal Hill. A fifth generation Baltimorean, Hugh has been involved in all aspects of craft brewing.