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Antxiola Hondarrabi 2012

September 15, 2014 Chateau Quake Cheap Wine +/- $20, Other White Grapes 0 Comments

Antxiola (pronounced ahn-cho-la) comes to us from the Errasti brothers, owners of Bodegas Zudugarai in Spain. It’s a Txakoli, a very dry, slightly-sparkling, hard-to-pronounce white wine (it’s pronounced chock-o-lee) made with the Hondarrabi grape. Antxiola Hondarrabi 2012 is made with both types of Hondarrabi – 90% Zuri (Basque for white) and 10% Beltza (Basque for…

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Cederberg Bukettraube 2012

September 11, 2014 Chateau Quake Cheap Wine +/- $20, Other White Grapes 0 Comments

I had a meeting at one of my favorite Chicago wine bars recently – BIN36 – and I wanted something “outside the box” – not my usual reds or whites or sparklings or rosés. I said “bring me something weird”!  Enoch Shully, BIN36’s beverage guru, did not disappoint. He brought me something from his native…

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