Foo - Wine suggestions

With all the talk about the health benifits of wine, I wan't to try drinking a glass with dinner every day. But it tastes AWFUL !!! Why would anyone drink this crap?

Are there ANY wines that taste good?

Wine eh! I won’t recommend any particular wine, but I can offer you some good advice. First, do a bit of research on the web for information on wine like types, regions etc. Buy a bottle at the recommendation of your local retailer. Learn the basics of wine tasting and appreciation like proper glassware, how to look at the colour, smell. Next, taste it, chew it and swallow it down, inhale some air, and repeat until the bottle is empty. Next step would be to go back to your local retailer and start with a good variety and spend a little time sampling the different styles and make a few notes on what you taste, see, smell and what you like and don’t like. Buy an introductory wine book and learn the “language” of wine. This would be a good start and by January, you will either still hate wine or start to understand the differences in styles and the complexities of wine. Matching wine with food, chocolate, cheese, cigars, friends etc. can be difficult at first, so it may be a good idea to concentrate on the wine first and wine with food etc. latter.

Good luck and cheers.
Gordon p

With all the talk about the health benifits of wine, I wan't to try drinking a glass with dinner every day. But it tastes AWFUL !!! Why would anyone drink this crap?

Are there ANY wines that taste good?

Not much for whites or blushes, but a glass of shiraz is a thing of beauty. Black Swan Vineyards in southeastern Australia produces one that is very nice.

Do some research about wine.. Define your tastes.. Also, your tastes evolve, once you start drinking wine. Most people start with semi-sweet white wines, like a German Moselblumchen, or Ziertztrammner ( Spelling?) . You will graduate to drier wines. Once I liked a good French Vouvray or German Mosel, but now they are much too sweet. At least normally.
Pretty much now we like a good Merlot or Pinot Noir. Wines should not be sweet if you are having a heavy meat dish.
Wines are beautiful.. Once you know them, you will covet them. We have actually designed our vacations to stop by our favorite vintners. With Thanksgiving dinner, I have my favorite Michigan Cherry wine with desert. that is why I visit Michigan in mid-Fall to bring back my Cherry wine for the holidays.
Suggestions.. Define your likes. Don't just pick one up off a shelf unknown. You probably had a strong dry red with a chalky aftertaste. Maybe find out where there are wine tastings. Try them all. Tell the server what you like. They will make suggestions.
Don't let your first impressions ruin you from finding great wines. It is one of life's many pleasures.
Favorite wines . White- A great French Fume Pouilly. Red. A French Margaux. And best U.S. wine from Santa Barbara- Rancho Sisquoac Merlot.(actually,found that while out on a bike tour-can't beat a good wine before a group campout) Go out and exeriment, you won't regret it.

If it tastes awful, don't drink it! Find other ways to sustain your health. Talk to a health professional, or try WebMD for an alternative.

Last night at a friends house we had two bottles of Riunite. One was Rosato (a little tart but not bad) and the other was dark red and really sweet and I actually liked it (but forget the name).

Everyone's taste is different - I like fairly full-bodied reds - a good Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Cabernet-Shiraz blend. I'm not a great white wine fan - I don't mind a dry citric white but I wouldn't buy it.

I've had good wines from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, France, Spain, Argentina and the US. On the US front I seem to recall Ravenswood did a fairly good Zinfandel a year or to back.

My favorite is Oregon Pinot Noir. Everyone has different taste, though.

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start with white wines, a Riesling perhaps. ANother wine you might like are the blush wines; they are pink. I feel the are the best buy on the shelf. Lastly, consider going to a wine tasting. See if you can't find one oriented towards beginners (not hard) or does just whites.

1998 Amarone, available at Trader Joe's for about 8.99 a bottle. Let it air for 60 minutes. Very nice with hearty pasta. Pinoit noir is just smooth enough for Tofu.

Talk to Siu...I think she knows wine pretty well.

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They only get better with age...

Boone's Farm.

Talk to Siu...I think she knows wine pretty well.

AUUUGGGHH!!!!!!!!!!! Stopppppp!!!!!!*pulls KT's hair out of his head* stopstopstopstop!! :cry:

Yellow Tail Shiraz...It's cheap and it's one of my favorite tasting wines. I'm no conasuer(however the hell you spell it) but I know what tastes good to me.

And another one gone, and another one gone.....another one bites the dust.

Hey....I'm gonna get you too. Another one bites the dust.

I want a new car, I want to go to mothers... Oh, not THAT kind of wine. Never mind. :o

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GREAT commentary on the gecko!!!

Boone's Farm.

FAMILY farm, that be.

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I can only think of one thing more ghetto fabulous.

Two buck Chuck.

Rusack. Great Wine, great area for cycling.

http://www.rusack.com/wines.html

Brunello di Montalcino.

But I'm a lover of any San Giovese.

I needs to get me a Black Roster cycling jersey!

way to dredge up ancient history KT!

Burdigalia

Here's whatcha want to do. The next time you are invited to someone's house for dinner, stop at the liquor store and get a bottle of a red zinfandel from Ridge. They produce several that are really great. Be prepared to spend around $25.

You will impress your friends with your good taste and get to sample a really good wine.

If you don't really like wine much, try a red table wine. Semi-sweet. You will probably be pleasantly surprised.

I just had some last night from a bottle I bought for 3.50 USD - I kid you not. It was really quite good. I have drank wine from 100+ dollar bottles as well.

Generally speaking, the price of the bottle doesn't have much to do with your enjoyment of the wine - it has to do with rarity. The table wines are very inexpensive because they are mixes and mass produced. But there is a reason they make so much of them, it is because most people enjoy them.

The more you drink, the more likely it is that you will drift toward drier wines. It is an acquired taste. Chilean wines are a very good buy in my opinion. I like Australian wines as well.

I tend to have one to two glasses a week. Mainly out of enjoyment not for health since my cholestrol is obscenely low and my blood pressure is perfect.

OK, I can't resist - Cycles Gladiator ! http://www.cyclesgladiator.com/cycles/index.jsp

(I bought one of their Syrah's just for the label and the wine turned out to be very drinkable)

Wine like Scotch is not to everyone's liking. To some its ambrosia to others it is kerosene. I think you can acquire a taste for wine, I was primarily a beer drinker then moved to CA for ten years and got to try a lot of wine. I now hardly drink beer and will have a bottle of Cabernet or Merlot a week. I do not like Chardonnay but I do like Champaign and sweeter the wine the worst it tastes to me.

The good news with wine is that you can find $5-$7 bottles of wine that taste as good as $25 bottles if look around a bit. As far as Scotch is concerned its kerosene to me.

Start out w/ Boone's farm.
Then there's Thunderbird...you'll only find this in the higher end establishments such as BP, Conoco, and sometimes at a 7-11.
MD 20/20 is another favorite amongst many...it too can be found in many high end establishments such as 7-11.

With all the talk about the health benifits of wine, I wan't to try drinking a glass with dinner every day. But it tastes AWFUL !!! Why would anyone drink this crap?

Are there ANY wines that taste good?

I don't understand the appeal of wine. It's a waste of good grape juice.

Here's whatcha want to do. The next time you are invited to someone's house for dinner, stop at the liquor store and get a bottle of a red zinfandel from Ridge. They produce several that are really great. Be prepared to spend around $25.

You will impress your friends with your good taste and get to sample a really good wine.

That's just great - $6.25 a glass - waste of money.

I don't understand...

You are correct.

"Red Zinfandel" Hah!

I'm sorry. That's kind of an inside joke at my house. The wife is a wine snob and if you want to see a vein throb in her forehead, be a waiter who asks "red or white?" when she orders a Zin.

Last night at a friends house we had two bottles of Riunite. One was Rosato (a little tart but not bad) and the other was dark red and really sweet and I actually liked it (but forget the name).

Riunite. eeeeeh, :p FORTIFIED Koolaid, aged on the truck. If you must I suppose.

Wine Hmm many many many choices But as most say you need to define your tastes, often very fun exploring.

Myself I prefer dry reds with very earthy tones, oak , currants, spicy type flavors.

also dont be fooled by prices, one of my favorite merlots (at the moment) is a NY wine that sells for $16.00 a bottle ($9.00 through my brother in law he owns 2 resteraunts) but on the flip side Ive had a few fabulous south african and Chliean wines that were in the $5-7 dollar range and they were excellent (I bought a case of the chiliean shiraz). at a wine tasting not long ago I tried 2 cabernets from the same california winery I prefered the $16 dollar cabernet to their $40 reserve cabernet again its my tastebuds.

also wine changes from year to year its a living substance and when conditions differ so does the wine. My long island merlot that I like right now might be terrible if the weather gets much warmer ...

happy sipping

"John"

Bonny Doon (www.BonnyDoonVineyard.com) FTW

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"Red Zinfandel" Hah!

I'm sorry. That's kind of an inside joke at my house. The wife is a wine snob and if you want to see a vein throb in her forehead, be a waiter who asks "red or white?" when she orders a Zin.

White Zin is basically taking a good grape and destroying it.

"Red Zinfandel" Hah!

I'm sorry. That's kind of an inside joke at my house. The wife is a wine snob and if you want to see a vein throb in her forehead, be a waiter who asks "red or white?" when she orders a Zin.

The manager should be informed or ya need to go to better restaurants :D



also wine changes from year to year its a living substance and when conditions differ so does the wine. My long island merlot that I like right now might be terrible if the weather gets much warmer ...
Except that any good winery should produce an outstanding product EVERY year. If the crop sucks, they need to reduce production to maintain quality.

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Schmidt Sonne Riesling

A good, cheap, starter wine. Very fruity. (that means sweet in wine talk)

The manager should be informed or ya need to go to better restaurants :D


Except that any good winery should produce an outstanding product EVERY year. If the crop sucks, they need to reduce production to maintain quality.


YES I agree! many of the old winerys are still going even through climate changes and bad crop years.




:beer: replace mugs with stem glasses.

"John"

Rent Sideways. Read the book, too. Get sideways.



Jack: If they want to drink Merlot, we're drinking Merlot.

Miles: No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any f****** Merlot!

KT, can you find any threads that existed before BF actually existed? that will impress me. no fair posting a pic of what you are wearing to work today.

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Love the Ralph Steadman graphics. Have you seen his book on wine, 'The Grapes of Ralph'?. A very good read. Another good wine book I would recommend is 'Noble Rot' by William Echikson, a story about modern Bordeaux wines and their history.

Rent Sideways. Read the book, too. Get sideways.



Jack: If they want to drink Merlot, we're drinking Merlot.

Miles: No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any f****** Merlot!

The funny part of all that is THE WINE that he so loved in the movie, the one he made a big deal about... Merlot. Yup. Merlot.

I wasn't impressed at all by 'Sideways'. And the wine he liked in the movie was CabSav, not Merlot

Ok, don't buy the lame story on how wine is so good for you. It isn't. The good stuff in wine can be had in your regular fruits (apples, for example), in much greater amounts. The alcohol isn't good for you at all.

Buy a few apples and eat after your dinner. Cheaper, healthier and tastes a lot better than yucky wine.

I wasn't impressed at all by 'Sideways'. And the wine he like in the movie was CabSav, not Merlot

The wine he's nuts about is Pinot Noir.

And I believe RF is referring to the 1961 whatever bottle that Miles had been hording and then 'celebrates' an occassion with near the end of the film.

The movie is so good. It's not just the wine, but how dispicable Miles and Jack are. They are liars, thieves, and pretty much just plain pathetic. But they are also funny as hell. And the conversation with Maya about why she loves wine has got to be the pinnacle of Virgina Madsen's career.

Maya: No, I- I like to think about the life of wine.
Miles: Yeah.
Maya: How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.
Miles: Hmm.
Maya: And it tastes so ****ing good.
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The wine he's nuts about is Pinot Noir.

And I believe RF is referring to the 1961 whatever bottle that Miles had been hording and then 'celebrates' an occassion with near the end of the film.

The movie is so good. It's not just the wine, but how dispicable Miles and Jack are. They are liars, thieves, and pretty much just plain pathetic. But they are also funny as hell. And the conversation with Maya about why she loves wine has got to be the pinnacle of Virgina Madsen's career.

Maya: No, I- I like to think about the life of wine.
Miles: Yeah.
Maya: How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.
Miles: Hmm.
Maya: And it tastes so ****ing good.
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Exactly, he was drinking Pinot Noir, and spitting the Merlot.

I wasn't impressed at all by 'Sideways'. And the wine he liked in the movie was CabSav, not Merlot

:rolleyes: no, it's CabFranc (not Sauv) and Merlot. Sure, not 100% Merlot, but the irony is still there.

Try a wine festival if you get the chance. It’s a good opportunity to sample a variety of wines to get an idea of what you like and can be a lot of fun in the process. Touring a winery is fun too.

Exactly, he was drinking Pinot Noir, and spitting the Merlot.
I guess I wasn't paying enough attention. I really don't like Paul Giamatti or whatever the actor's name is.