― craig sager (eman), Saturday, 6 December 2008 02:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
$4 malbec, u are a treat
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 20 December 2008 06:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Finished a bottle of Posada Del Rey last night and enjoyed is so much I went online and ordered a dozen more this morning. It's a Rioja in all but name and compares well to most of the bottles I've had recently in the £8=12 range.
Having said that, It's not a patch on The Monasterio De Tentudia 1997 that I bought last year. I have 3 bottles, all which will be consumed over the Christmas period.
For cheap, everyday drinking, Domaine D' Aubaret Cabernet works out good value at around 60 quid for a box of 12 and my wife swears by Prickly Pear, an Argentinian white, which again, comes in at about £4.50 a bottle. it says "for everyday drinking" on the bottle so that's what she does.
Stopped using my local supplier (Stephensons) as the old cow in there is so deeply unpleasant, It became a real ordeal. I clearly don't fit in with her idea of a wine drinker and the fact she knows next to nothing, despite having been there for many years does the company no favours at all.
Tend to buy most of my wine online nowadays, although The Sunday Times Wine Club have been running some decent offers lately. For a big organisation, they have proved suprisingly good at sourcing, and re-sourcing, especially Spanish Riojas and Temperanillos so they are getting most of my business at the moment.
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 20 December 2008 13:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I tried Eiswien last night – it kind of tasted like grape juice. :(
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 20 December 2008 18:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
I used to be picky. I'm not anymore. Why spend $10 or more when you can spend $5?
― Bat Penatar (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 20 December 2008 19:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
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I think you can be picky and get decent wine nowadays. Some of the best wines I've had this year have been special offer 3 for a tenner at ASDA.
The trick is to find something you like and buy as much of it as you can afford. Wine experts talk shite most of the time and the ones in newspapers tend to be on the payroll of someone selling the stuff.
Having said that, an occasional really good bottle is a wonderful thing.
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
You bet it fucking is. I still sorta get hard ons when I see the words "Cotes Du Rhone".
I want to go to the planet where there is an endless supply of that. And never come back.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Saturday, 20 December 2008 21:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Bimble. If you join The Sunday Times Wine Club, do it for 1 reason only;
http://www.sundaytimeswineclub.co.uk/article.aspx?product_code=60425
Works out at just over 8 quid a bottle and drinks like a £20+
― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 20 December 2008 22:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
Revive, for the sake of the Santa Barbara Co. Vintner's Festival. Currently, doing some work on a brief, and enjoying a REALLY good syrah - Margerum '06 Colson Canyon Syrah.
Also, playing UB40/Neil Diamond really laoud. WONDERFUL Friday.
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 9 October 2009 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
dudes bestow the wine logics
― let the glory boy mr. henry have it on rye (jdchurchill), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
What's up, jd? I certainly won't put myself up as an expert, but I drink a good bit of good wine. I'm currently digging on some Central Coast syrahs - big fruit, big earth, really chewy. Where are you? what level of stuff do you have access to?
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
Chicago; not rollin in dough so access is mad limited. been on the mission to find wines me an my gurl dig south of the Alexander Hamilton. Recent expeditions have turned up Protocolo 2007 - $9, Rioja Alavesas, Spain, Airen/Macabeo at this place
― let the glory boy mr. henry have it on rye (jdchurchill), Friday, 9 October 2009 23:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
whoa dude that is a big ass picture, sorry
I'm a fan of the Spanish riojas. nice medium body red. Was that one good? Should I look for it?
― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Saturday, 10 October 2009 00:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
dude it's a white wine with a touch of peach, citrus and minerality.
― let the glory boy mr. henry have it on rye (jdchurchill), Sunday, 11 October 2009 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Grayson 2007 Pinot Noir $12 very good
― youn, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is best thing you'll ever taste with Phil Collins face on it.
http://www.avalonwine.com/PGC_dollar-bills-200p-5-05.jpg
Seriously though, this is the best Pinot I've ever had under $20.
― Darin, Monday, 14 December 2009 20:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
my wife got me this as an early christmas present (except '04, not '01)
it's so good that it is going to make me feel sort of bad when i go back to my normal cheap wines tomorrow.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 December 2009 03:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ten Australian Dollars for d'Arenberg these days, thank heavens for the glut in the wine industry.
― no mate bruce springsteen is the american jimmy barnes (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 24 December 2009 05:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
(Yeah, I know, but I am from McLaren Vale.)
grayson pinot noir again - a napa valley pinot - is this unusual?
― youn, Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
That you're drinking it or that it's a pinot from Napa?
― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
the latter
― youn, Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Not unusual at all.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
It's unusual except for Carneros, which gets fog and cooler air from the Pacific -- the rest of Napa Valley is too hot for pinot. Even Napa Valley pinot producers (Robert Sinskey, Mondavi, etc.) get their grapes from Carneros.
― rogue whizzing (Eazy), Friday, 5 February 2010 14:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
henri clerc pinot noir 2006
― youn, Saturday, 17 April 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Domaine de Lancyre Roussanne 2007
― youn, Friday, 4 June 2010 22:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was in Oregon a few days ago and bought a 2008 De Ponte DFB Estate Melon. A lot of whites I find either too astringent or too sweet, but this was pleasantly dry and smooth, with nice notes of banana and pear.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
(At least it was at the tasting. Presumably the bottle will be the same.)
― jaymc, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
we got this in the fridge right now
― IT IS A HARBINGER OF THE GOOD TIMES OF THE FUTURE (jdchurchill), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
might not be the 'o6 vintage tho
Me an' Lincoln have been drinking turpentine. It was in a brown bag, so how were we to know?
― Aimless, Friday, 4 June 2010 23:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
hardcore
― IT IS A HARBINGER OF THE GOOD TIMES OF THE FUTURE (jdchurchill), Friday, 4 June 2010 23:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've had this a couple times lately and it is unbelieveably good
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 5 June 2010 01:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Alsace, where the French and the Germans agree to disagree.
― Aimless, Saturday, 5 June 2010 02:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
that alsace is good iirc
i had a discount rioja reserva yesterday which wasn't great, v lacking in fruitiness or anything engaging
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 5 June 2010 09:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Chateau De Vaults Domaine Du Closel 2005 Savennieres $16
― youn, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Chateau Des Vaults" - sorry. Also, "La Jalousie"?
― youn, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Another winner from Alsace - Baron De Hoen Gewurztraminer.
I've been having decent luck picking French wines just based on how nice the bottle looks plus how old the winery is.
― surfer blood for oil (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 03:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Domaine des Hauts de Sanziers Chenin Blanc 2008
― youn, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 22:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Norton Ridge Pinot Noir 2007
― youn, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Domaine de la Madone Beaujolais Villages 2010
― youn, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Budini Malbec 2009
all the European wine around here is $3-5 more expensive than last year, cheap Rhone staples Parallel 45 and Vidal-Fleury are now like $12
― Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jean Marc Bernhard Pinot Noir 2009 from the Alsace $16
― youn, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
The perfect test for qualia would be tasting notes for wine:
cough syrup (in a good way! i am sensitive to sweetness): http://kermitlynch.com/page/2011-beaujolais-nouveau/watermelon (but dry, minerals and granite, etc): http://www.rimauresq.eu/page_23/rose12
― youn, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wish i appreciated wine more than i do.
― Cindy Mancini can ride my lawnmower anytime (thebingo), Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
more lozenge than syrup because there is that tart sucking on hard candy taste. when i was very small i got very sick and couldn't take cough syrup; it made me gag. so that is the case for qualia and what you cannot recover in your own lifetime.
― youn, Sunday, 13 May 2012 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Robitussin, make me feel so fineRobitussin, elderberry wine
― Lee626, Monday, 14 May 2012 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
crozespommardbierzocotes de ventouxsome nz sauv blanc
― nakhchivan, Monday, 14 May 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink