Irresistable Wine Bargains

My latest wine infatuation has been the Starborough 2009 Sauvignon Blanc, rated 90 by the Wine Spectator. It's widely available and on sale now at several area supermarkets for $11.99 (from $14.99). I'm a huge fan of the New Zealand style of sauvignon blanc, and this one is terrific with the kind of dinners I make -- vegetable based dishes with pasta, rice or polenta, and fish entrees of all kinds, especially when prepared with lemon, olives, herbs and/or peppers. Starborough is made in the Marlborough region of NZ. Click here to visit their website.

While we're on the subject of wine bargains, check out the advice from Food & Wine's wine expert, Ray Isle, who is also a contributor to the Today Show. Click here for a link to some of his suggestions for wines as low as $10 a bottle that are made by the tens of thousands of cases and go great with food.

Wine Flights at PF Chang's -- DEAL!

I took my mom to lunch at PF Chang's -- had not been in perhaps a year -- and discovered their new-ish deal on wine.
Chang's has always had a lot of nice wines by the glass. As with most restaurants, the good stuff is pricey. But here's the thing: you can select any three wines from the extensive by-the-glass list to make up your flight. The official pour is 2.5 ounces, and the price is $9 no matter which wines you select.
We were just at 20 Brix, a wine-oriented restaurant in Milford, and their "taste" size is 2 ounces, with prices all over the place--you can easily pay $4-$5 there for one two-ounce pour.

I was not intending to have wine at lunch today, but simply could not resist this offer.
Furthermore, the bartender was a little generous with those pours--I don't think anyone is back there measuring.

I had a marvelous flight of Adelsheim Pinot Gris, Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc and Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay ($11 a pop there if you just want a glass of that), served in the cool tower pictured here (not a great photo, though, sorry).
Our server said they'd had this deal for almost a year.
I say, go for it before someone in top management realizes that this is a bargain for the discerning wine drinker!