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Lewis Perdue's Rating of Steele Wines: Barbera: Lake County-California: : 2012: United States

Without a doubt, the faintest, most etherally impoverished Barbera I have ever tasted. A veritable 98-pound weakling. $14.50 at the tasting room, but not worth the squiggly Hwy 29 trip over the mountains from Napa.

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For winery tasting samples, gifts from friends or family or samplings at a party or event, review it truthfully, but only if I like it. If I have paid my own very-hard-earned money on a bottle, the gloves are off and it gets what it deserves ... whether perfect or puerile.