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Anyone here drinks wine for taste? Which one is your favorite?

Don't like white wine really. Pinot Grigio is ok and Riesling.
For red wine, I like Chiantis the most and also Pinot Noir. Although I did get a sweet red table wine from a local winery and I usually prefer drier wines, but this one is really good.
 
Long ago in my wine drinking days I enjoyed MATEUS ROSE'

edit/ I should add that wine conneisors will turn their nose up at Mateus because of it's wide availabilty and heavy marketing. I liked the taste and really didn't care what the wine snobs thought.
 
Red Wines:
Merlot (economy) Bogle 2000
Merlot (fancy) Trefethen 1999
Cabernet (fancy) Chateau St. Michelle 1999
Cabernet (fancy) St. Supery 1999
Pinot Noir: Clos Du Bois 2000

White Wines:
Chardonnay (economy) Leaping Lizard 2000

Dessert Wine:
Canadian Icewine - Inniskillin
 
My work does wine of the month mailings for Chateau St. Michelle, and not more than a month or two ago, one of the warehouse guys came barreling around the corner with a pallet and someone had moved the forks on his lift closer together, so the whole thing came tumbling down and it busted about 22 bottles worth all over the floor. 🙁 The warehouse smelled good for about a week though!

🙂
 
Merlot for reds, current favorite is '98 Canyon Wind (Colorado). Had a good Australian Merlot a few days ago also. Yellowtail?
For whites ... Gewurztraminer. Haven't found a really good one recently, although the glass in my hand (Covey Run) isn't bad.

And of course, a good port. Actually, only the first bottle has to be good. After that you can get the cheap stuff 😀
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Don't like white wine really. Pinot Grigio is ok and Riesling.
For red wine, I like Chiantis the most and also Pinot Noir. Although I did get a sweet red table wine from a local winery and I usually prefer drier wines, but this one is really good.
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i love white wine. It's the kind of wine you don't need to have food when you drink it. It's anytime-wine
 
I am a firm believer that you don't have to spend a lot to get good wine. For example if you ever come across Romanian wines by Premiat do yourself a favor and buy a bottle or two. Their 1995-97 vintage Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, or Pinot Noir can be had for about $5.00 per bottle. For white wines I favor rieslings from Germany, Blue Nun in particular.

 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
gallo barrelli creek makes good wine

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<--- doesn't like cheap wine
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cheap wine is wine with cheap quality, not wine that is selling for cheap

Anymal was right, there is a whole bunch of good wine selling for cheap, just because the winery is new, it has not gained enough reputation to allow it to rip the customer off.
 
I like to stick to local wineries. It's always cheap and often good quality. I often by wines from Sandcastle in Bucks County, PA, Tomasello in Atlantic County, NJ and Matarazzo/Four Sisters in Belvidere, NJ.

Wines from these kind of places are almost always under $10 and are excellent.
 
How can one pick one unless one eats food from the land?

Let me tell you a story.

In 1996, I picked grapes from an untended ramble of vines. I let them overripen in the dried grass I collected. I sqeezed them, let the juice sit in the sun, then let it ferment and bottled the wine. Got a bit over 15 gallons, straight concord grape, no additives.

I drank that wine with squash I grew that year, with the fresh tomatoes, with sausage I stuffed, with cheese I made, seasoned by fresh herbs from my garden, with bread fresh from the pan, so hot it was a sin to eat considering I broke it with my fingers instead of slicing.


There's nothing quite like it. It's wasn't fancy, far from it. Had a person tasted it, it would likely resemble good quality Merlot.

But combined, I could taste the earth.

I could taste the land.

I could taste my work.

And then, my friends, I lived, as it was some of the best wine I have ever drunk.


Cheers ! 🙂
 
It's all about Okanagan Wines baby! For Red it's Mission Hill Cabernet Shiraz
For White it's Tinhorn Estates Pinot Gris

I prefer red mostly though!🙂
 
Originally posted by: ergeorge
Merlot for reds, current favorite is '98 Canyon Wind (Colorado). Had a good Australian Merlot a few days ago also. Yellowtail?
For whites ... Gewurztraminer. Haven't found a really good one recently, although the glass in my hand (Covey Run) isn't bad.

And of course, a good port. Actually, only the first bottle has to be good. After that you can get the cheap stuff 😀
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Yellowtail rocls (can't beat the price, too) -- I love their Shiraz
 
I'm particularly fond of that crap they make out of those rotten raisins that are covered by mold. Probably comes of being a mushroom.
 
Favorites are Rosemount Shiraz, Black Opal Shiraz, Rosemount Shiraz/Cab blend, virtually any malbec, montepulciano d'abruzzo, rioja.

Full-bodied reds are my favorite. Whites are usually too wimpy for my palate.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
I like to stick to local wineries. It's always cheap and often good quality. I often by wines from Sandcastle in Bucks County, PA, Tomasello in Atlantic County, NJ and Matarazzo/Four Sisters in Belvidere, NJ.

Wines from these kind of places are almost always under $10 and are excellent.
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yep, local wineries should be your best place
 
I usually keep a bottle of Woodbridge merlot on hand. It's pretty inexpensive and IMO has good flavor. I think pretty much anything by Mondavi is pretty good.
 
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