Favourite Wine
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I’m into Malbecs and been enjoying the malbec from Deep Roots winery. They are local from naramata.
Slightly sweeter than Bordeaux but just as full bodied
Slightly sweeter than Bordeaux but just as full bodied
I always hear AC/DC playing in my head “Have A Drink on Me” when I’m in the Liquor store, it inspires me to go for the “Cheap Wine”. It’s fun to look at the tags and find the ones with $3-$4 off the regular price scoring some great wines for $6.99-$7.99, I can’t tell the difference between the 20-40 buck stuff and the cheap stuff. There are a lot of excellent wines from around the world, I try to stick with the BC wines but South America and Spain have some great ones, really enjoy Los Cardos Malbec from Argentina!👍
I agree. I go for cheap Chilean wine. Red. So I am a connoisseur of color. Don't know why Chile. Bought some fairly expensive French wine a few years ago for a dinner party. Gave everybody a nasty headache.
I enjoy old world red wine especially Italian and in particular Brunello, Barolo, and Super Tuscans. Every region though has great wine at every price point.
BC wine can also be very good, but a little overpriced. Painted Rock, Little Engine, Deep Roots, Laughing Stock, Checkmate, Meyer and La Stella are some of my favourites.
I love BC Syrah, Pinot and the blends. Painted Rock Icon and La Stella Sophia are excellent.
BC wine can also be very good, but a little overpriced. Painted Rock, Little Engine, Deep Roots, Laughing Stock, Checkmate, Meyer and La Stella are some of my favourites.
I love BC Syrah, Pinot and the blends. Painted Rock Icon and La Stella Sophia are excellent.
"I would humbly disagree, I can taste the difference between the cheap and the good stuff. I wish I could have your taste buds, as I would save a ton of money just by buying cheap wine. Unfortunately my taste buds tell me that half decent wine starting at $30 is drinkable, with the typical good wine in the $50 - $85 range. FML lol.
Argentina does indeed make some good wine, but I’m not familiar with them. I’m looking to branch out to French and German next. Possibly Argentina after that."
I agree, once you've had the good stuff it's hard to go back to the cheap stuff.
There's lots of good wine in the $50 and up range but it's very challenging to find something drinkable under $30.
I enjoy hunting them out and finding the occasional gem under $30. Some of the Spanish Rioja's are good value.
Italians from the lesser known areas like Puglia, Campania and Sicily can be good value too.
Argentina does indeed make some good wine, but I’m not familiar with them. I’m looking to branch out to French and German next. Possibly Argentina after that."
I agree, once you've had the good stuff it's hard to go back to the cheap stuff.
There's lots of good wine in the $50 and up range but it's very challenging to find something drinkable under $30.
I enjoy hunting them out and finding the occasional gem under $30. Some of the Spanish Rioja's are good value.
Italians from the lesser known areas like Puglia, Campania and Sicily can be good value too.
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I'm glad you acknowledge it's a personal taste thing versus a expensive wine snobbery thing. Wine like scotch is a subjective thing. One isn't any better than the other, and you're absolutely lucky if the cheap stuff is what you enjoy.
Best red I ever had was early 80's, my local liquor store had a case of '76 or maybe '77 Amarone Corvina. I can't recall the price, probably something in the $3.50 range at the time as that was generally all I could afford. The then wife and I were having pasta, the guy in the liquor store suggested "buy this one". I remember heading back there next day and bought the rest of the case. I don't think the BCLDB really knew what they had but I recall reading about the Amarone's of the mid to late 70's later and realized this was one of the best ever from the region. Ever since I have been partial to bigger red's, really for me, regardless of price, snobbery issues etc. If I enjoy it, its a win for me.
I once tried a French red at $80. I wasn't that impressed and figured I would get a lot more pleasure out of two bottles at $40. Or even four bottles at $20. Try the 'Don David' series from Argentina, sometimes on sale. My palate is not that fussy so I usually don't spend more than $20. Last week I tried an Italian from Puglia called 'Codici'. It's on sale for $12.99 right now. Worth double that. You're welcome!
In the past I have mostly drank red wines in the $15 to $20 range (before taxes). Last Christmas a colleage invited me for Xmas dinner and served a red wine about $60 including taxes. I thought it was incredible! I have since bought a bottle but have not drank it yet because I feel it needs to be for a somewhat special occassion or at least shared with a special person. This is the wine (it appears to be on sale at the moment):
https://www.everythingwine.ca/black-stallion-cab-sauvignon
And to show I have not become a wine prude, I will relay a more recent ancedote. A few months ago I went to Joeys for lunch (similar in quality to a Browns I would say) and ordered a nine ounce glass of a house red for about $20 including taxes. I liked it and asked my server what it was and this is it:
https://www.everythingwine.ca/what-cha-ma-call-it-red-blend-750-ml
Yes, $13.98. Joey's is definitely making a nice profit on this wine if they sell a 9 ounce glass for $20 and their cost for a whole bottle is likely around $11 (if you by wholesale in large quantities). I tried to buy a bottle the other day at Everything Wine but they were all out. The same label has a Chardonnay for about the same price that is a house white for a very popular restaurant here in Van (sorry, I forget which restaurant it is) and is bought in huge quantities here in Van I was told. My colleage that invited me for Xmas dinner, and knows a lot about California reds, did say that the red I had at Joey's was a 2017, which was a good year for California reds, and that I might not like the current current year available at stores like Everything Wine as much.Also, because it is a red blend, the components of the blend can change from year to year.
JD
If your thinking about spending $180 to $200 for mediocre whore, think of the great bottle of wine you could get for that.
Or you could spend $60 and get a slightly less than mediocre both.
After watching the 'Sour Grapes" documentary I feel good about not spending more than $20 a bottle. I don't want to spoil the movie but Rudy Kurniawan was not caught because one of the buyers spending thousands of dollars for a bottle noticed that something was off with the wine. Basically this guy was mixing cheap wines in his sink and passing them off as vintage Bordaeux wines. No one could tell the difference. He even fooled one of the Koch brothers.
That was a very interesting documentary. The smart scammers use $500 bottles of wine to pass of as the rare $1,000's bottles of wine.
If you're talking about the very enjoyable $50 to $100 category this is not an issue of that magnitude.
