Wine!
We've had threads on sandwiches, burritos, pizza, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, beer, and god knows what else, But after enjoying what is possibly one of the best reds I've had in a while, I realized we've never had a thread about wine. Are there any other wine lovers out there? What are your favorite varietals? Are you more into reds than white wines, or whites over reds, or are you a blush/rose' person? Favorite wineries/vineyards?
I love a great red - bold, full bodied, layered, yet very drinkable. I find myself liking a good red blend/meritage more than any others. One of my favorites is Apothic Dark, but I just tried the new Apothic Brew and it's *so* good. Ravenswood, one of my favorite wineries, has some incredible limited production reds (blends and Zins). Pinot is my second favorite red.
For white wines, I love Edna Valley chardonnay and Chateau St. Jean chardonnay.
For favorite wineries, mine are Silver Oak, Carmenet, V. Sattui, Ravenswood, and Edna Valley.
What about you?
I love a great red - bold, full bodied, layered, yet very drinkable. I find myself liking a good red blend/meritage more than any others. One of my favorites is Apothic Dark, but I just tried the new Apothic Brew and it's *so* good. Ravenswood, one of my favorite wineries, has some incredible limited production reds (blends and Zins). Pinot is my second favorite red.
For white wines, I love Edna Valley chardonnay and Chateau St. Jean chardonnay.
For favorite wineries, mine are Silver Oak, Carmenet, V. Sattui, Ravenswood, and Edna Valley.
What about you?
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Reds I am a bit more picky, but we have a lot of really good mid-price ($15-30) reds to choose from here. My favourites are cabernet sauvignon and shiraz. Merlots are ok, but not usually gutsy enough for me. Pinot noirs annoy me - they look like ballsy wines but then they taste like they’ve been watered down.
I don’t know how readily available our wines are outside Australia, but my particular favourite non-trashy white is d’Arenberg Olive Grove Chardonnay. My favourite reds are Claymore Wines Dark Side Of The Moon Shiraz, Pepperjack Shiraz, d’Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz, Jim Barry The Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon, and my all time have-bought-multiple-cases favourite, Thorn-Clark Shotfire Ridge Quartage. I would highly recommend any of these if you see them around.
Don’t drink Yellow Tail though, that’s a trash wine here.
I like reds in general, we have a great winery here in Washington called Chateau St Michelle, they make literally everything but their Cabernet Sauvignon is my favorite, also Reisling from C St Michelle.
I’m not enough into it to worry about vintages
fun trivia, the “town” I live in, Grapeview WA was so named because a confederate army veteran moved out here after the civil war and started a vineyard and winery, the remains of his estate are just up the road from me, no vineyard anymore, but the name stuck
By the way, is champagne considered a wine? I'm a huge fan. I love everything from the flavor to the pageantry. Champagne is the icing on the cake for pretty much every event.
And then there's the cava from Spain and the prosecco from Italy, but that's a whole 'nother story.
One thing you can try in your bota is Kalimotxo which is 50% red wine and 50% Coca Cola.
I’m like Paul Giamatti in Sideways when it comes to Merlot. Not a Merlot guy. I’m a Cab Guy. I like ‘em dry. I like a good Cab or recently Bordeaux. When I was living my best life I was drinking only 1 glass of Pinot Noir per week. Spanish wines cause I left some of my heart in Espana, so a good Rioja Gran Reserva. If it’s white, keep it dry like a Pinot Grigio.
I keep it in the $20 range tops.
a liquid heaven shout out to Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs Brut Champagne from the Schramsberg Vineyards in Calistoga. stuff is dangerously good!
Gonna indulge after our 10 mile daily trek on Albarino and Ribiero (two dry white wines of the region), along with a lot of fish and shellfish.
I couldn't get into Sandeman. Give me the 15- or 20-year Kopke tawny. With chocolate cake? I die.
@Dee - Yellow Tail is a trash wine here too. The 2012 Shiraz was weirdly good... but it's gone now.
Does anyone know of anyone who makes a Marsanne Rousanne mix? We stumbled onto one once at a tasting on one of our first trips out there years ago and it was kind of the perfect white wine for my wife and my sensibilities, but I've never even heard of anyone having that blend since. I guess that vineyard made it as sort of a fluke experiment because of an aberrant crop season. I'd love to surprise my wife with it one of these days if we ever come across one.
We also found a super cool beer bar on this trip, but that's for another thread...