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[one_third_last] A s I search for a name for my new column, I think it’s quite appropriate to have my first review be about a new spirit, TazaRay Red – an infant in the market trying to make its mark in a saturated party of older and street savvy distilled veterans. I was drawn to review this one first, because, like the new girl at the soirée, this 90 proof sunflower and corn based brew is aged in red wine barrels and makes its mark as the first true “Gluten-Free” spirit. And let’s face it, if you are going to crash the boy’s club, you put on your best lipstick, have kick ass shoes and waltz in with style that no one’s ever seen before. Initial fragrance is that of sunflowers and toasted caramel. It has a sweet smell, but picks up the red wine flavor on the first sip.…

While the cat’s away (some wine tasting thing, blah, blah, blah) this mousy wife is popping her own cork. Tonight’s lucky contender is the Schlink Hause Red Wine. I’m normally not a sweet wine connoisseur, but my Lutheran parochial school “communion wine shenanigans” helped me develop a taste for the sweeter, red things that the Lord doth provide. At first swirl and taste, this wine causes flash backs to sweeter Mogen David days of yore when Luther’s Small Catechism recitations dictated whether we would make it into 8th grade with some assemblance of parental pride. But I digress… After the initial, “Damn, this is sweet” this wine kind of grows on you. It’s tastes and feels like a thick rich dessert of sweet wine reduction. I’m tempted to use it in our next cooking adventure. I’m not quite sure what else Dan posts on these things and after my second…

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