OMG, Wine is so good...

[shenaniganz]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I actually collect wine Something I got into in college. My friends kept calling me "Frasier" because I was the only one that could pronounce some of these names heheheh. I'm partial to Shiraz, and if you can find a '99 or a '00 Barossa Valley Estate Shiraz for under $40, pick it up for a special occasion!! Probably the best wine I've ever had. For a less dry dessert wine, I'm partial to Riesling. It's a German wine with a pear/apricot flavor and decent brands can be had for $9-$15.

Wine is an acquired taste, and I acquired it faster than I did with beer. What's weird is when you start drinking good wines, they get to be really interesting. If you concentrate, you can actually start to pick out different flavors such a berries, oak, fruits, licorice, mint, orange---it's like peeling the layers from an onion. The wine tasting experts are really amazing, as they can actually tell vintages and some can even tell where the grapes came from in the wine. Neat talent.

Riesling is not named so because of it's region (i.e. appelation) but by the type of grapes it is made from. I have had a few good Washington state Rieslings.

With that said, my favorite type of wine's ar reds, mostly Cabs and Merlots.
:wine:

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: shenaniganz

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I actually collect wine Something I got into in college. My friends kept calling me "Frasier" because I was the only one that could pronounce some of these names heheheh. I'm partial to Shiraz, and if you can find a '99 or a '00 Barossa Valley Estate Shiraz for under $40, pick it up for a special occasion!! Probably the best wine I've ever had. For a less dry dessert wine, I'm partial to Riesling. It's a German wine with a pear/apricot flavor and decent brands can be had for $9-$15.

Wine is an acquired taste, and I acquired it faster than I did with beer. What's weird is when you start drinking good wines, they get to be really interesting. If you concentrate, you can actually start to pick out different flavors such a berries, oak, fruits, licorice, mint, orange---it's like peeling the layers from an onion. The wine tasting experts are really amazing, as they can actually tell vintages and some can even tell where the grapes came from in the wine. Neat talent.

Riesling is not named so because of it's region (i.e. appelation) but by the type of grapes it is made from. I have had a few good Washington state Rieslings.

With that said, my favorite type of wine's ar reds, mostly Cabs and Merlots.
:wine:

Riesling grapes came from Germany....they're grown all over now. Just like Shiraz wines comes from Australia, but California is making some nice Shiraz's now.

 

[lucrioual]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: lucrioual
alcohol is horrible

Why? Because it tastes bad or because God told you it was naughty?

screw what god has to say
... also, the church pushes alcohol, "blood of christ".. common

no.. thats not why, alcohol is a mind altering substance which shouldn't be used, and i've come to that conclusion on my own
sorry if you don't like it

 

[TitanDiddly]

Wine coolers.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: shenaniganz

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I actually collect wine Something I got into in college. My friends kept calling me "Frasier" because I was the only one that could pronounce some of these names heheheh. I'm partial to Shiraz, and if you can find a '99 or a '00 Barossa Valley Estate Shiraz for under $40, pick it up for a special occasion!! Probably the best wine I've ever had. For a less dry dessert wine, I'm partial to Riesling. It's a German wine with a pear/apricot flavor and decent brands can be had for $9-$15.

Wine is an acquired taste, and I acquired it faster than I did with beer. What's weird is when you start drinking good wines, they get to be really interesting. If you concentrate, you can actually start to pick out different flavors such a berries, oak, fruits, licorice, mint, orange---it's like peeling the layers from an onion. The wine tasting experts are really amazing, as they can actually tell vintages and some can even tell where the grapes came from in the wine. Neat talent.

Riesling is not named so because of it's region (i.e. appelation) but by the type of grapes it is made from. I have had a few good Washington state Rieslings.

With that said, my favorite type of wine's ar reds, mostly Cabs and Merlots.
:wine:

Riesling grapes came from Germany....they're grown all over now. Just like Shiraz wines comes from Australia, but California is making some nice Shiraz's now.

The Alsatians would be very upset (at least some of them anyway) if they heard you say that rieslings come from Germany since some of the best rieslings are from there. I have a fantastic Grand Cru downstairs that I'm waiting for a good occasion to open. Also, be careful about generalizing about a grape like you did for riesling. I used to say that I disliked gewurtztraminer until a vintner in a little village in Alsace set me straight (have a bottle of that downstairs, too!).

Shiraz is clever marketing by the Aussies -- they're actually syrah grapes which originated in France. It's the same gimmick that Mondavi used for Fume Blanc, which doesn't actually exist as an appellation or a grape (it's sauvignon blanc). I had a really good petit syrah a few years ago, wish I could remember the name now.