Wine Drinkers..

[BW86]

Kelly's Revenge Cabernet Sauvignon is pretty good.

 

[Cobalt]

Nightrain.

 

[essasin]

Cline: Cab

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
what sites are recommended for newb wine drinkers...i see costco has a large selection of wines....with a large price vaiation as well...soem as low as 6 bucks and soem as high as 65 a bottle..been tempted to try some but i know nothing about wines

IMO, stay in the ~$20 bottle area until you further develop your appreciation. The value in the more expensive wines is usually in the form of three things:

1) Complexity. More expensive wines are generally more complex, and without sufficient tasting experience you're likely to miss it entirely.

2) Ratings. There are only a handful of professional tasters that essentially dictate the market in wines (Laube, Tanzer, Parker, Suckling and a few others). If they give a wine a 100 point rating you can almost guarantee that $30 bottle will soon see $200, and in a few years probably many hundreds if not thousands. If you stick to wines rated ~88-92 you're likely to find some incredible bargains, and if the first issue I described (complexity) doesn't hit you you're just wasting your money on 95+ point bottles anyway.

3) Low supply. Keep in mind that some of the best wines in the world produce little more than you could do in your garage. We're talking a few thousand cases for the entire world. This pushes some of these bottles into the thousands of dollars, and they're not always exceptional.

IMO, just go wild and try some new things. Don't worry about labels, regions, or anything else. Find a $5, 10, 15, 20, 25 bottle and drink them (not on the same day). You'll quickly develop your palate so that you can discern a difference in quality, and you'll begin to develop an appreciation for increased complexity.

we are finally doing wine samplings at work.

last night my favorite was the Chateau Ste Michelle Reisling.
Honig Sauvignon blanc is meh but not bad.

It's a cool place to visit too, Woodinville is one of the most beautiful places in the country, imho. I vint my own in the summer when it's too warm to brew beer (though I don't usually use grapes) but when I do buy it from the store, Chateau Ste Michelle has a variety of sub $10 bottles that are consistantly better than most the other stuff in that price range, and always available in my area.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: Chunkee
MadDog 20/20

MadDog 20/20 indeed does very well in important high profile testing.

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hahaha, now that's what i'm talking about.

 

[Chunkee]

quite the selection here...MAD DOG LOVERS!

 

[darthsidious]

Mu favourite would be a 2004 Kabinett Riesling I had from the Mosel Saar Rhur region whose name I can't remember now.... My favourite wine whose name that I can remember is the Schmitt Sohne 2003 Auslese. At Descartes's recommendation, I did buy a bottle of Alstatian Riesling, and I'm looking forward to trying it soon.

My favourite red so far was an italian chianti Il tomona(sp?), from the 2001 vintage. Keep in mind I'm very inexperienced at drinking wine., I've probably only had about 10 bottles overall so far.

Speaking of wine, Descartes, is that new winery of yours going well? Is it still possible to get a couple of bottles of the Pinot Noir, and if so, what price would they be?

Thanks,

 

[dug777]

For a nice cheap bottle, Stump Jump Shiraz Grenache Mourvedre is excellent

I have a very nice bottle of Amberley 2003 First Selection Shiraz i'm saving for when we next go out for dinner, an incredibly nice drop

 

[sandorski]

Tinhorn Creek Pinot Noir. Probably impossible to find outside British Columbia though.

Here's their website, if you really wanna try it you could order some Online, but you should try it first before that hassle.