If you're a wino like I am, post your faves here, even if you like box wine or Boone's Farm or something. You need not necessarily go into bottles/vintage years, but I'm looking for new things to try.
My favorites include:
Red: Zinfandel or Vintage Port
White: German or Canadian ice wine
Nothing beats a good Merlot with a steak. I don't see how people like chardonnay with seafood or chicken, though.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:03 am Posts: 24177 Location: Australia
german ice wine is to die for.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
i drink roughly 3 bottles of wine per week.
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I've had a dozen different brands of german eiswein since my stepfather got me hooked on it after buying me a bottle for college graduation. I used to be REALLY big into wines back then, but I found myself spending the $40 or so I'd allot myself for wines each month on eiswein more and more.
A great, similar-tasting alternative to German eiswein is German beerenauslese or (if you're in the mood for spending a gram of coke's worth of cash) trockenbeerenauslese. Instead of extracting the wine when the grapes are frozen, these wines take advantage of "noble rot" that happen to German grapes under extremely controlled conditions (German wines have even higher laws than French outside of the draconian, $$$-controlled Sauternes laws). These are fantastically sweet, and beerenauslese is half as expensive as eiswein, if you don't mind drinking rotten grapes.
There are fake ice wines from the United States and Australia, where grapes are yanked from the vines and artificially frozen/extracted, and these are okay but never turn out as sweet as the natural German eisweins. They are, however, a much cheaper alternative.
There's a Canadian company, Innilskin or something, that makes great ice wines. My favorite wine ever was a rare Merlot ice wine from this company. It was a cool $70 - the most I've ever spent on a bottle - but the memorable taste was well worth it. I'll get it again if I get my Ph.D.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:47 am Posts: 46000 Location: Reasonville
Peeps wrote:
i thought this was gunna be about c_b and life in the city
hey!
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:08 pm Posts: 4678 Location: Morgantown, WV Gender: Female
I've been trying for years to find a wine that i actually like. I hate red wines and blush wines. I recently tried Reisling and really liked it. I also drank Yellow Tail Chardonnay at a wedding last summer but it was only b/c they ran out of beer and I was already pretty trashed. Otherwise I think I might have hated it.
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:29 pm Posts: 6984 Location: if anyone wants me, i'll be in my room Gender: Male
i started drinking wine about a year ago when i was a hardcore alchy. sometimes i wouldnt have made it to the liquor store in time so i would go to 711 and buy a big ass bottle of wine and drink it. good times.
now that ive chilled out in terms of my drinking, i prefer a glass of cab sauv from time to time. but usually i just dont drink anything now unless im at a party or its new years.
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Justin Bailey wrote:
There's a Canadian company, Innilskin or something, that makes great ice wines. My favorite wine ever was a rare Merlot ice wine from this company. It was a cool $70 - the most I've ever spent on a bottle - but the memorable taste was well worth it. I'll get it again if I get my Ph.D.
It's called Inniskillin.
Brain of Sam wrote:
I've been trying for years to find a wine that i actually like. I hate red wines and blush wines. I recently tried Reisling and really liked it. I also drank Yellow Tail Chardonnay at a wedding last summer but it was only b/c they ran out of beer and I was already pretty trashed. Otherwise I think I might have hated it.
My girlfriend is the same way. She can't drink red at all (though she does like some blush wines). She also really dislikes dry or acidic whites, but she has recently had a lot of luck with Rieslings. The liquor store around here has each wine labelled based on it's sugar content (0-5, 5 being the sweetest) and she seems to prefer the Rieslings in the 3-4 range. That's too sweet for my tastes but it works for her.
Personally, i'm not the least bit picky. I will drink just about anything and enjoy it. As such, i've taken to making my own wine recently. I just started a Shiraz this weekend that i'm really looking forward to.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:43 pm Posts: 1431 Location: Knoxville, TN Gender: Male
I have a bottle of Mclaren Vale Shiraz that I'm saving for a kick ass steak. The guy at the wine store told me it was good. I also like to keep a bottle of Gnarly Head Old Vine Zin around.
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Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:09 pm Posts: 10839 Location: metro west, mass Gender: Male
I can't stand white wine. I drink about a bottle of red every week during weeknights.
Also, I'm not fooled with expensive wines. The cheaper red wines are a million times better. Better flavor, more robust, more body. I think it's because more impurities are left in, not sure.
My favorites are Shiraz, Caberet, and Merlot.
Oh btw, I got a legit bottle of red wine for less than a Euro in Paris. We bought like 6 of them and got loaded over the next couple days.
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