let's talk wine

jamie uk

I'd rather not talk wine tonight...I'm having a dry day.
But I do love the stuff...red, all the way.

TrixieCat

small town beck wrote:

I love Barolo I love red wine. My second that I normally can afford..LOL Barbera D'Asti!! Love it!! I like a nice Shiraz or Cab Sav. I have some Chianti here that is pretty good so maybe I will have some later!!

Throw a roast in a pot with a bottle of Barolo and I am yours....so good.
Oh and some onions and carrots too.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

releaselauren wrote:

Hey you!

My world is frigging cold! Why do we endure this weather every year?

this way we just enjoy our summer a little bit more......

and yes......it is FUCKING COLD outside!!!!!!!.....

shell bell

Good thread. Well if you saw me my post,I tried the Slight of Hand gewertzimer (sp).Loved it! I'm not big on reds,but I'm always willing to try some....I do love the Chateau Ste. Michelle Rieslings tho,tasty stuff.I also like Ste. Michelle's champagines too.

shell bell

dunkman wrote:

i'e yet to meet a red wine i didnt like... i watched James May and that ponce Oz Clarke going around Cailfornia tasting wines and stuff.. it hurt my pancreas to watch them swill the wine around in their mouth and then spit it out?!?!?!

why do that?

Hardy's voyage Cab Sauv for me tonight

i love Aussie wines the mostest

It is a crime just to swish it around and spit it out. All I know is that if I'm taking the time to go to the Calif. wine country,I'm drinking all the way.Fuck the spit bucket!

dunkman

shell bell wrote:

It is a crime just to swish it around and spit it out. All I know is that if I'm taking the time to go to the Calif. wine country,I'm drinking all the way.Fuck the spit bucket!

damn fuckin right!!!

you wouldnt go to a high class restaurant and eat a mouthful of Alaskan King Crab and then spit the food out and go "ohhhh i'm getting aniseed, small boys and a slight hint of a tramps belly-button"

just drink the stuff

small town beck

TrixieCat wrote:

Throw a roast in a pot with a bottle of Barolo and I am yours....so good.
Oh and some onions and carrots too.

Sounds good

Best wine ever

shell bell

dunkman wrote:

damn fuckin right!!!

you wouldnt go to a high class restaurant and eat a mouthful of Alaskan King Crab and then spit the food out and go "ohhhh i'm getting aniseed, small boys and a slight hint of a tramps belly-button"

just drink the stuff

LOL! Just swish it around in your mouth and swallow and enjoy the wine! Still love the scene in Sideways were the guy is pissed and drinks the spit bucket.

sennin

Genesis Cab is another one I like.

Jeanie

Currently almost finished a case of Jacob's Creek Reserve Chardonnay 2005 Vintage.
Just working my way through a case each of Tahbilk 2005 Chardonnay and Tahbilk Cabernets 2003 and I've got a magnum of Jacob's Creek Reserve Shiraz 2003 just waiting for a session with my girlfriend. Oh and a fabulous bottle of Penfold's Koonunga Hill Cabernet Sauvignon South Eastern Australia 2002 Vintage that I am giddy just anticipating!

I prefer the Jacob's Creek Chardy to the Tahbilk Chardy.

I also love Brown Brother's Crouchen Riesling and their moscato is to die for!

Oh and when I'm really lucky Dad gets me a bottle of Jacob's Creek Bin 349 for Christmas! Now I'm just hoping for a GOOD year on the stock market so I can have a bottle of Grange!

ryan198

Though it seems like not too many white fans out their Chardonnay is one of my faves...though it drinks like a red. There were a couple out of Napa last year that rocked...they are in my wine fridge right now which is too far for me to walk at the moment.

I'll drink any red...merlot being my least favorite, but would push almost any cab from napa.

Finally, for my alma mater and from the home of some of the best rieslings, I would take Red Cat from the Hazlitt winery in upstate new york anyday of the week. Its a sweet barbecue wine (read: it tastes like grapejuice with vodka or some sort of tasteless alcohol), which as popular lore goes was used by the two sons of the winery to get many a coed in bed. The label has a red cat holding a wine bottle with the signature HHJ (hazlitt horny juice), and - needless to say - has gotten me where i am today .

Obi Once

decides2dream wrote:

i wouldn't hold onto those 2004s too long. i have learned the whole 'aging wine' thing, in reality...not the best idea. most wines are meant to be consumed not long after purchase, even reds. sure, if you get into some truly fine/expensive vintages...perhaps...but wines in the 15-50 range, errr....not so much.

It's not so much related to the price, but more to the grapes used and the time on oak casks. Lighter red wines (ie merlot, pinot noir, shiraz) don't really get better after they're bottled, while heavier wines (ie cab sav) do. If you get a wine already fully aged on casks (ie reserva) the change once bottled also is neglectable.

The wines that lately been finding their way to my collection is usually made of the Spanish tempranillo grape. No houses is particular, just what I come across.

PJaddicted

New Years Eve we opened up two bottles of 1982 SAINT-EMILION Bordeaux Still EXCELLENT! We bought a case years ago...and were told by our wine guy to use it up NOW! So we have been drinking it on special occasions, with people we love....next two bottles on my sons 21st birthday!

oxc

chinobaeza

decides2dream wrote:

i AM awaiting some chilean suggestions....*cough*jose*cough*.....;)...also hear some south african wines are good too!

don't know If you can get this in the US, but if you can you should definitely try Montes Alpha cabernet sauvignon

ladygooddiva

well i an acctually
not a wine lover but since i am in spain i start to like it;)
i forget the name of my new fave its a bit sweet and fruit taste...

decides2dream

Obi Once wrote:

It's not so much related to the price, but more to the grapes used and the time on oak casks. Lighter red wines (ie merlot, pinot noir, shiraz) don't really get better after they're bottled, while heavier wines (ie cab sav) do. If you get a wine already fully aged on casks (ie reserva) the change once bottled also is neglectable.

The wines that lately been finding their way to my collection is usually made of the Spanish tempranillo grape. No houses is particular, just what I come across.

i realize it's not 'price'...just used that more of a barometer/guideline is all, b/c there IS a lot more to it. just know this past autumn we went on one of those wine tastings/tours on our own, at the eastern vineyards here...and we had an excellent guide really get into it all. just stating that the average bottle of wine is not meant to 'age' after purchase....and some people think ANY bottle will age well, and that more than likely...hold onto it too long, and it definitely will pass it's peak.

The Champ

decides2dream wrote:

i realize it's not 'price'...just used that more of a barometer/guideline is all, b/c there IS a lot more to it. just know this past autumn we went on one of those wine tastings/tours on our own, at the eastern vineyards here...and we had an excellent guide really get into it all. just stating that the average bottle of wine is not meant to 'age' after purchase....and some people think ANY bottle will age well, and that more than likely...hold onto it too long, and it definitely will pass it's peak.

Definitely, but I'm holding on to the Benton 2004s for as long as I can . I drank one two weeks ago and it's still actually getting a bit better, but unfortunately I'll have to drink them within the next 6 months or so :(..

Btw, what vineyard was that, Vineyard 48?

decides2dream

The Champ wrote:

Definitely, but I'm holding on to the Benton 2004s for as long as I can . I drank one two weeks ago and it's still actually getting a bit better, but unfortunately I'll have to drink them within the next 6 months or so :(..

Btw, what vineyard was that, Vineyard 48?

well we hit up about 5 or 6...twas a good day. but for the real 'tour' it was at pindar, and the guy was great. i posted pics of it here on the art wall i believe, it was such a gorgeous day!

NYbenben

i had a nice bottle of Argentinian wine last night... called Los Altos... it was a Malbec... Really nice full body... and relativly inexpensive... about $12-$13..

I also get some really nice Cabernet's from a small vinyard in California called Micheal Pizzan... good stuff...also in the $16 or so price range.

Obi Once

decides2dream wrote:

i realize it's not 'price'...just used that more of a barometer/guideline is all, b/c there IS a lot more to it. just know this past autumn we went on one of those wine tastings/tours on our own, at the eastern vineyards here...and we had an excellent guide really get into it all. just stating that the average bottle of wine is not meant to 'age' after purchase....and some people think ANY bottle will age well, and that more than likely...hold onto it too long, and it definitely will pass it's peak.

Absolutely true, and even most wines that can age peak around 5 years, while staying good for another 10. Now there are exceptions, my favorite being Saint-Émilion, perhaps to some here for obvious reasons as a guideline most red Bourdeaux (combination of Cabernet-sauvignon (main ingredient), Merlot and others such as Malbec), Cotes du Rhone (ie a Châteauneuf-du-Pape made of the Shiraz grape). To be able to age you need a strong wine as mentioned above, lighter wines should be drank asap and will only lose taste or go sour.

Most wine I buy are not from the conventional countries, but Argentine, Chile, Australia, South Africa and Californian, the price vs quality is awesome.

btw I had a 2003 Katnook Estate Cabernet-sauvignon which is supposed to be one of Australia's finest as a gift last week