Whats your favourite red wine plus describe its ..

by Celtic 17 Replies latest jw friends

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  lydia

  Celtic,
  Love this topic!!!

  I have certain winereys I love to visit and taste the vintages before I buy! I like the full bodied wines and the light fruity ones too. Desert wines are great - especially the strawberry and blueberry varieties.
  I'm no connsesuior (can't spell well either! ) But wine and cheese are a favorite course!

  Has anyone any choices on Brandys??

  I LOVE Asbach Uralt - wonderful stuff!! My husband got me hooked on it - he got hooked when he was stationed in Germany years ago!!

  Cheers!
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  mike047

  When I drank, I used only White wines. The Reds don't go well with Opossum or Groundhog.
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  Bendrr

  A few years ago I came across a bottle of a red table wine in the local liquor store. Kanonkop was the brand, from South Africa.
  mike.

  I may not like what you have to say, but many men gave their lives for your right to say it.
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  r51785

  I love the wines of Navarro, located in Philo, California in the beautiful Anderson Valley. They make some of the best Gewurtztraminer and Pinot Noir in California. I just bought a half case of the Gewurtz and enjoyed a bottle with the Christmas turkey. This wine is generally only available at the winery or by mail order. It is excellent.
  There are some great Zinfandels made in the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma County, California. A really good inexpensive one is Gallo of Sonoma (that's right Gallo). You can get a bottle of this wine for about seven or eight bucks.
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  GentlyFeral

  I'm just beginning to enjoy grown-up alcoholic beverages -- that is to say, wine, whiskey or vodka neat, rather than ruint by club soda or any such adulterant.

  Merlot is much nicer than I thought it would be. When I first tried it many years ago, I was turned off by its sharp flavor, but now I find it just one element in a mighty tasty bouquet of flavors. Actually I find it fruity, almost sweet. Not what I used to think of as "dry."

  Maybe it's time to try Valpolicella again. I remember really liking it in my unsophisticated days.

  Billygoat, $29 and up for a single bottle? Really? I can't bring myself to pay that much for a dress. I'll pay $18 or so for a bottle of halfway decent Irish or Scotch, knowing it'll last for weeks or months. Wine doesn't go so far, so I rarely pay as much as $10/bottle, but that's still enough to buy some entertaining beverages.

  GentlyFeral

  "There were cockroaches of course,
  but very clean cockroaches."
  -- Julia Vinograd
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  Princess

  Have to agree with Ozzie, the Australian shiraz gets my vote every time...especially Ozzie's private reserve.

  Second place is Wyndham Hills bin 555 Shiraz. Yummmmmmmm

  Princess
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  ozziepost

  G'day all,

  I'm just enjoying a Cab Sav with my daughter who's rather struck on wine science. Sometimes makes her own brew, orders and selects her own grapes, actually makes the wine the 'old' way by bare foot treading on the grapes! She's a great lady!

  Some of the labels you guys and gals have mentioned, I like too. Let's see, there's the McGuigan merlot favoured by Billygoat and then there's Thirdson's Merlot. Not bad at all. Of course Princess knows a good thing, too! Oh, that shiraz!

  Cheers,
  Ozzie (of the mellow imbibing class)
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  Francois

  Hello All:

  I love this question.

  Went to San Francisco with my daughter back last July and we went up to the wine country and wound up, among other places, at the Robert Mondavi vineyards. They had an estate-only red wine there they were calling Boomerang. I believe it was somewhere between 50 and 100 dollars a bottle.

  This wine was so deeply red it was almost black in the glass. It almost had a smoky ambience, with a deep, rich taste verily almost like drinking fresh ox blood, but yet it wasn't heavy at all. This wine couldn't be called soft by any means. I could just imagine a glass of that wine with a very rare filet, or extra rare Frenched rack of lamb.

  Next to that, I'd have to say any of the Black Shiraz wines from Oz are wonderful. And there's one from South Africa whose name I can't remember. This is mainly because a friend used to get it through Canada for his resturant during the time we had a total trade embargo against South Africa. In the resturant, his regulars knew of it and we ordered it by the name "Chateau Swartza" and it was excellent.

  I know this is about reds, but also while I was out there with my daughter we ran across a very friendly white from Stag's Leap, a chardonnay. Crisp, light, with a very faint but present fruity aftertaste and an alcohol content around 16%. And the winery itself was so nice, so informal, so friendly. Not like Mondavi. Those people had the attitude, like, "draw off thy sandals, redneck, for you stand on holy ground." But their Boomerang was great.

  Francois