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HOOOOOOOOOOOWWW can this topic only have 2 threads?!?!
WINE!!!!!
I love ice wine from germany.. other wines.. I am not so sure of.. any advise?
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| snidley26 |
| I like Francis Coppola - Merlot - about $15.00 and Fat Bastard about $9.00 - Much better than it sounds believe me. |
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| Jon |
| Bartenura Moscato D'Asti.......it is fairly cheap($35) and it tastes great. It is not a sparkling wine but it does have some effervescence in it. |
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| DaleB |
| Had a Rodney Strong Merlot the other night, that beat the hell out of the dinner. |
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| bomo |
| Recommendations from a pro, please. |
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| HrdTsk |
You can find some for in the $40 range.
Best wine going now. Could get better too with 3-5 years ageing. |
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| Tom-TX |
I have never been disappointed by any South African wine that I have tried and (outside of a restaurant) I can never remember paying more than $15 a bottle.
Most places will have KWV which is a cooperative. Few if any private labels seem to make it into the US, at least not in Texas.
Of course there are Texas wines??? Oh wait, the question was good inexpensive wine not cheep wine. |
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| rx4diz |
| Those of you that have Trader Joes in your area should try their Charles Shaw wine at $3(three) a bottle! I have lived in Italy part time the last three years and have brought back many bottles of wine for many different people, some good and some not so good according to them. This $3 bottle ranks up there with some of the best I have brought back as I am told. Saw the wine on CNN as well. Here in Washington State they have a hard time keeping it in stock. |
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| marne |
...as a Sonoma County wine grower, but the best ~$10 wine in the world is from Australia -- Rosemount Estate Shiraz. At Trader Joe's, you can often find it for $8. I've seen it up to $12 in places like Safeway.
In the $20-$50 category, there are too many good wines to count!
--Marne |
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| ByeByeChrysler |
Rosemount is good, also Jacob's Creek is another good inexpensive Shiraz from Australia.
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| bigbee |
I was going to mention the Rosemount Estate Shiraz myself. It's flavor is huge (tremendous amounts of fruit and very complex). It's a fun wine to try, especially if you've been drinking the much more subdued European reds.
I've been trying various California and South American (Walnut Crest, Concha y Toro) reds, mostly Merlot, and they're all pretty decent these days. I can't say a clear favorite has emerged. I need to take better notes. |
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| Guitarmdx |
Definitely try:
1. Coppola "rosso" which is just a red table wine ($8 - 11) and is very drinkable with just about any meal.
2. Ruffino chianti classico tan label
Both are good old stand-by's for good wine. |
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| ghost |
I've been a big fan of Rosemount Shiraz for many years - I think it was the first Shiraz I tried. I'm also partial to their Chardonnay, a good oaky and robust white.
I don't know if it's available in the States yet, but there's a small winery in Victoria west of Melbourne called Garden Gully that makes an excellent shiraz.
On occassion we buy a bottle of Barwang - it's not very good, but you can get it really cheap... :) |
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| ghm2112 |
Here is a useful guide for you:
The Annual Value Wines Issue put out by the Wine Spectator
Some solid NV Value wines off the top of my head include:
Luna Pinot Grigio
St Supery meritages and sauv blanc
St Supery Syrah
Anything in your price range from Pine Ridge
Clos Du Val Pinot and Sangiovese (if you can find it)
most anything from Turnbull
Markham merlot
S Anderson and Schramsburg for sparklers
and on and on and on and on...
One wine to really try to track down is the 1998 Clos Du Val Georges III Rutherfor cab. The story behind the wine is complicated, but the short of it is that the agreement between Andy Beckstoffer (who bought the Rutherford vineyard from the Latours) and Bernard Portet (head of Clod Du Val) fell through after the 1998 harvest. As a result 1998 is the last year that this classically-styled Ruth cab was made. The best part is that the wine is now selling for half it's original retail price of $56!. I'm not sure why the business folks at CdV have decided to dump the wine, but I tasted it recently and, aside from needing to cellar a few years, it is absolutely solid. We bought a case.
Finally, with the dollar sucking wind in currency markets, Aussie wines are very tough to beat at any certain price point.
Happy Trails,
Traveller |
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| renov8r |
... that is, without a doubt, my FAVORITE tidbit from Joe Millionaire -- really crystallizes the "sophistication" of Sara.
ANY HOW -- asking about the "the best" wine in a price range this wide is sorta like asking "which Miss America is most beautiful?".
There are an enormous range of flavors that exist in any wine -- that what makes it so compelling to sample/compare MANY wines.
Further, there are wines that are best enjoyed with relatively simple foods, others that are better by themselves, and some that compliment foods with complex flavors.
Having said all that, I have visited a few web forums on wine, and all are pretty lame compared to the participation we enjoy here at acuramdx.org...
http://www.letstalkwine.com/forum/default.asp
http://www.warpa.com/cf_code/forum/index.cfm?forum=1
http://www.winepros.com.au/jsp/cda/....jsp?FORUM_ID=1 |
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