The Wine Thread -- what have you been drinking?

Also like the Nimbus Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (from Chile).

all of the rieslings

http://www.lerocherdesviolettes.com/IMG/arton17.jpg

http://static.wine-searcher.net/images/labels/58/69/txt-cellars-lol-riesling-qba-mosel-germany-10305869.jpg

xp!

all of the rieslings but not that one

is that a chenin blanc? i bought a vouvray sec the other week and generally like loire chenins a lot

Yeah, but they call it a pineau de la loire...

if yr in the uk there are some insane prices here but obviously everything is selling out quickly

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/bin-end-sale-morrisons-cellar-up-40-off-wine-from-2-99-per-bottle-free-delivery-1899020

wish id noticed this sooner cuz i would have cleaned out the ten quid meursault and six quid mercurey

Any recommendations?

virtually anything over five quid at >50% discount will be worth buying

like the st joseph there at nine quid is over fiteen euros if you go and buy it at the vineyard

Thanks!

Ended up getting half a case of an NZ Riesling because I rarely see decent Riesling for less than about nine quid and half a case of Henrys Drive The Trial of John Montford cab sauv which comes highly recommended by Robert Parker.

nice

ive ordered....a lot, this seems to explain why they are dumping stock, seems like a lot of the burgundy was gone even last night

hope the orders are fulfilled because i have never seen this sort of shit at this kind of discount, one of the californian wines was at less than half the price they are selling to domestic customers on their own website

this was the first one i tried and its p nice, oak aged single varietal sauvignon blanc which is fairly unusual even in bordeaux (possibly for good reason but it works well here), still in stock at £6

http://www.vivino.com/wineries/nederburg-estate/wines/the-young-airhawk-2011

Excellent. I might order some. Ended up going for a crate of the Laurenz Gruner Veltliner as well this week.

yeah there were two of those, ordered a few bottles of the residual sugar one and quite looking forward to trying it (at a third of the rrp too), dont remember having bought any austrian wine before despite all the hype it's got lately (its international rep having been destroyed by their habit of adding antifreeze back in the eighties)

I love Laurenz, and wish that the PLCB (Pennsylvania Liquor Control) would stock it again.

this site i have never seen before has a couple of interesting wines half price wines relevant to the slovene wine asides in the other thread, a pinot gris from podravje in northern slovenia and a friulian 'sauvignon' from 5 miles inside the italian border which is described as a sauvignon blanc here although the producer doesn't specify which type. i suspect it's fine in any case. tempted to order some.

http://www.thedailydrinker.co.uk/product/112/2011_Sauvignon_I_Vini_di_Jacopo
http://www.thedailydrinker.co.uk/product/45/2009_Pinot_Gris

This seems good at £7 a bottle

http://www.tesco.com/wine/product/details/default.aspx?icid=Wine_HP_banner&id=283161102

drinking a very tired gran reserva rioja tonight
tesco had some excellent discounts on there that were gone very quickly earlier this week, a half price savigny premier cru, barolo, rijks shiraz
theres a discount code on winedirect.co.uk for £10
they sell a lot of shit but the other side of their stupidly large range of wine is that they inevitably mismanage their stocks and sell off good things cheap from time to time

http://www.winesdirect.co.uk/vouchers/

Was considering buying myself a bottle of something cheap & red yesterday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dylan introducing the Beatles to pot (after they couldn't honour his request for cheap wine) but had to work late and didn't make the liquor store in time

idk if i would generally advise buying chateauneuf du pape from obscure negociants but at £6 per bottle this is probably worth trying (despite the spiel delivery is free on the invoice)

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/le-prince-du-logis-chateauneuf-du-pape-tesco-6-bottles-for-36-00-2081759

yeah probably not worth an awful lot more than £6 but good for drinking by the bottle during atlantic squalls

I've been collecting these natural wines from Mt. Etna in Sicily made from this eccentric Belgian dude named Frank Cornelissen. Not for everyone, but I'm enthralled with them.

Had two very good bottles of Amarone della Valpolicella last night.

Might try to pick up a couple of other Veneto wines if anyone has any recommendations.

this was one of the best white wines i had last year, they do another single vineyard cuvée which is slightly more expensive, both are distributed fairly well in this country afaik

http://www.inamaaziendaagricola.it/ENG/wines_menu_eng/e_vini_forcarino.html

which amarone?

Thanks.

It was a 2003 Bertani and a 2009 Allegrini, i think.

there's a wine from i think puglia called gratticiaia which is made in the same fashion as amarone, not cheap although less costly than those

im still going through stuff from that bin end sale i posted itt exactly a year ago

other than that a lot of marginal stuff, a couple of montsants (heavy garnatxa/carinena from catalonia), a nerello mascalese from the slopes of mt etna, a pinot noir from alicante (quite why someone would plant a grape from north central france there although it was just about alright), roter veltliner from lower austria, bucellas which is a white wine from near lisbon that was popular in london during the napoleonic embargo ('portuguese hock')

some barossa shiraz and some cote challonaise wines at the more normcore end of the scale

I've been collecting these natural wines from Mt. Etna in Sicily made from this eccentric Belgian dude named Frank Cornelissen. Not for everyone, but I'm enthralled with them.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:12 PM (3 months ago)

After years as a drinker of bourbon and beer, Mr. Murphy had his palate turned upside-down one afternoon in 2008 at Racines, a wine-obsessed spot in Paris where Mr. Chearno, his vinous Yoda, helped introduce him to a bottle of a Sicilian orange wine called Frank Cornelissen MunJebel Bianco No. 3, “which was so crazy,” Mr. Murphy said. “In my memory, there were leaves and twigs floating in it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/dining/for-james-murphy-of-lcd-soundsystem-a-brooklyn-wine-bar-is-a-switch-in-tempo.html

what does this thread think abt orange wine?

there was a single forlorn, slightly dusty bottle of croatian orange wine discounted by 50% sitting at the back of a shelf that i couldn't quite get the will to buy
could envision myself pouring it down the sink so didn't bother
there's a lot of dismissive comments about them from people who usually aren't reflexively dismissive, but i think more it's sense that even partisans seem to be saying they are really interesting
whereas would rather buy things that may or may not be interesting but will definitely be at least alright

towards the more normcore end of things, i had a bottle of pesquera del duero the other evening and thought it was excellent

I've only had two orange wines, and did not particularly like either of them. They are cropping up more and more on lists in DC restaurants these days and are generally $$$

Lately I am into Portuguese roses (which I like so much better than the average French rose) and whites from former Eastern Bloc countries! Yeah it is winter but this is what I'm drinking, so what? I can chill it in the snow.

I had a very good orange wine while on vacation in Croatia last year. I would like to try more.

Speaking of which, I wish there were more Croatian and Balkan wines available in the U.S. We had some really delicious wines in Dubrovnik that are hard if not impossible to find here. Even good U.S. wine stores in big cities might stock one or two at most. It's maddening to know there's so much good, inexpensive wine out there that never finds its way here.

And since I don't think I've mentioned it previously on this thread, let me give a shout to my favorite Spanish label, Lopez de Heredia. Also hard to find in the U.S., but I've come across it here and there. Even the cheaper Cubillo is very good, but if you can spring for the Tondonia, highly, highly recommended. One of those wines that really needs to breathe and open up before you drink it -- otherwise you'll get a mouthful of dust and wonder what I'm talking about.

Lately I've been buying the Frontera Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1.5L bottles for something like $9 a pop. Crazy cheap, and tastes pretty good.

I brought home a Spanish orange wine from a vacation about 15 years ago. I was intrigued at the time, thinking it was a fermented orange/grape mix, but I later read that citrus is too acidic for yeast, so the orange was likely added later. Too sweet, and not very good really. It took me several months to finish it.

the orange wine itt is white wine that sits on grape skins for a while, giving it an orange colour.

quite a few new restaurants here in sydney now have an orange wine section on the winelist & i really like them... they're not any more expensive than other wines, but i think that's because a lot of the young australian 'natural' wine makers enjoy making them.

OK, I've never heard of that, outside of "white zin" type abominations.

the orange wine itt is white wine that sits on grape skins for a while, giving it an orange colour

I thought that was how rose (imagine an accent over the e) is made. Is there something different about the process that makes it orange rather than pink?

wikipedia says -

This winemaking style is essentially the opposite of rosé production which involves getting red wine grapes quickly off their skins, leaving the wine with a slightly pinkish hue.

OK, so rose is red wine grapes with a brief exposure to the skins, whereas orange wine is white wine grapes with a long exposure. Interesting. Will look for it maybe when the weather gets warmer.

Somehow we wound up with a half bottle of Rose -- I literally do not remember how we got it, but I didn't feel like drinking a beer so I said fuck it and poured it. The brand is Schlumberger, no idea if this is good. It's kinda ok but kinda weird, like something vaguely pukey about it compared to other sparkling wine. Anyway tastes like something I should be drinking at some high class party and not alone in my apartment.

Schlumberger is some pretty high-end ish out of Sonoma County. Probably not too sweet. Enjoy it.

What he drank came neither from the decent-to-good (Cabernet especially) Michel-Schlumberger winery in Sonoma's Dry Creek Valley, named first for the Swiss banker and oilman who founded it in the late '70s and second for his later partner and ultimate owner, a Texas-born Californian descendant of the old French wine family (not sure whether a connection to the Houston-based multinational oilfield services company of that name), neither of whom was the winemaker or is involved any longer, nor from that family's much better-known Alsatian estate winery Domaine Schlumberger, which makes some very well-respected Rieslings and Gewurztraminers and is probably what "Schlumberger" means to most wine people, but from the Austrian mass producer (and therefore "brand") of sparkling wines named for the country's first such, who founded the company (now GmbH) in the mid-1800s.

the charles shaw at TJ's is pretty decent this year