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Hmmn . . . I don't think there has been a wine thread, has there?

Well, I am a little bit broke this month, so i picked up a really cheap bottle of wine. So, I know very little about wines, but the local grocery was selling this Syrah for 7.99, sinced I opened the bottle I have not been able to stop pouring myself one glass after another.

The amazing thing is, is that I never been intrigued by any bottle wine, I thought I would share. Here it is Catillo DE Daroca it is a Garnacha-Syrah 2005--does this make sense to anyone? it is from Espana--Is that near the Middle East? I didn't know they made wine!

Hope all is well, please share your favorites!
 
it is from Espana--Is that near the Middle East? I didn't know they made wine!

I have been warned by the moderators not to make insulting jokes anymore. So I won't say anything. I prefer Two-Buck Chuck or Night Train.
 
Yeah Espana used to be a part of the middle east, but the Spaniards had other ideas : ) wish i could get my hands on a decent Garnacha for 8 bucks in Japan, my usual Scala Dei is around twenty and I am broke too so no Garnacha.
 
Actually, I remember a thread which got hijacked and turned into a wine thread, but don't know which one that was.

There was a wine thread before (oh, Search Function, how neglected thee art!), and some other "Potent Potables"...

Wine

Whiskey

Beer

Tequila

Y olé! 😉
 
BTW, I'm not drinking right now, but was at a wine tasting this past weekend. Bewy bewy good.

I'd give you the name of the one I really liked, but I was enjoying the party too much...
 
Im drinking Trinity IPA Beer rght now. Its a local brewhouse in Providence. Its a bit too hot for wine right now being about 90 degrees in the shade.
 
ChrisPlatt said:
Anything with a screw cap.

http://bumwine.com/
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EEEeewwwwww, LOL!

Brings back bad memories of undergrad drinking games where the loser had to drink a tablespoon of MD 20/20, otherwise known as lighter fluid. 🙂 You thought that doses that small would be benign, but you found out the hard way!

Actually, Cisco is kind of a joke/cult wine in some technoid circles. That stuff makes Boones Farm taste like a prime vintage. 🙂
 
Oh no, wine now 🙄
There are too many .... at leat, I can say: uh don't talk about wine with a French 🙂
Ok some references!
Excellent: Bourgogne rouge, Gevrey-Chambertin (one of the most famous from the Côte d'Or and from my father-in-law's vineyard 🙂 )
Cheap but damn good: Brouilly
And once or twice a year: Bordeaux blanc, Sauterne (very sweet)
 
OK this will be my sole post on this topic. I have a dry Rosé from four Rhone varietals that is just freakin' bitchin' over ice. Happy Summer!​

- John​
 
Let me recommend an inexpensive Chardonnay. It is bottled by "Barefoot" out of California. It has a gold label with an obvious barefoot. As far as Scotch goes...I recommend Jura.
 
"EEEeewwwwww, LOL!"

Actually many wineries (particularly in New Zealand) have been using Screw caps and (some) "rubber" corks for years. It seems they make more reliable seals than the traditional cork.
 
srtiwari said:
"EEEeewwwwww, LOL!"

Actually many wineries (particularly in New Zealand) have been using Screw caps and (some) "rubber" corks for years. It seems they make more reliable seals than the traditional cork.
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AAAK! OK I lied - I can't stay out of this. Screw caps can make a good seal if they are applied properly, and this is more difficult than putting in a cork. Also, you have to make a wine differently for it to age well under a screw cap.

If you see a bottle with a plastic "cork" in it that is more than one year out of vintage and not in the under $2 bargan bin, run. Run the other way. Plastic tampons (that's French for cork, y'all) BAH! I f*rt in your general direction.

There is no substitute for real cork in real wine. That said, I believe there is a place in the world for Mad Dog or T-Bird under a screw cap.

Cheers! - John
 
steamer said:
Dude Last time I spoke French a cork was called a bouchon, If they've started closing their bottles with tampons I'll stick to the Stelvin screwtops.
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LOL 😀 ! Yeah, bouchon refers to cork, while tampon is stopper or bung. I have seen the synthetic stoppers advertised in French trade jorunals as tampons plastiques, which I think is fitting - or perhaps a measure of how the French industry feels about them. The Stelvin is a good closure - you just have to make the wine differently to work with it. Plumpjack used to sell their spendy Cabernet in a two-pack: one screw-capped, one cork-finished. Guess which wines are showing better after 10 years.

Cheers! - John
 
Sisyphus said:
Hmmn . . . I don't think there has been a wine thread, has there?

Well, I am a little bit broke this month, so i picked up a really cheap bottle of wine. So, I know very little about wines, but the local grocery was selling this Syrah for 7.99, sinced I opened the bottle I have not been able to stop pouring myself one glass after another.

The amazing thing is, is that I never been intrigued by any bottle wine, I thought I would share. Here it is Catillo DE Daroca it is a Garnacha-Syrah 2005--does this make sense to anyone? it is from Espana--Is that near the Middle East? I didn't know they made wine!

Hope all is well, please share your favorites!
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Hah! Last night you gave a useful lens suggestion, but added an oblique reference to drinking that I couldn't figure out if it was about your own or (supposedly) mine for starting an incoherent thread (either/both equally likely). Now we have the partial answer?

Since when did 7.99 become a "really cheap" bottle of wine? Does it come in a jug? Does it come in a box? Then it's not really cheap.

BTW, on the principle that if I buy it at Costco it must be a bargain, I got an astonishing Kim Crawford (New Zealand) Marlboro Sauvingnon Blanc for .025% the cost of my new M8 (give or take a decimal point).

Finally, in sincere hope of hijacking this thread, I roast my own coffee for (mostly) espresso. Similarities to photography are often mentioned by home-roasting espresso geeks. Any of those here? Let's hear it for the second-most heavily traded commodity (after oil) in the world.
Martin
 
I guess the Stelvins are not really for a vin de garde, but they seem to work fine on wines that aren't made for the long haul. Just don't tell me the screwtop Plumpjack is showing better or I'll have to rethink my first statement.
 
I love Port. I never encountered a Port that I didn't like unless it went bad. Port with cigars, port with cheese, port with desert, port with fruit, port by itself, it doesn't matter. I really like Mateus Rose chilled in the summer. I have a thing for Sambuca too. I drink wine with dinner but I'm not picky. I make my own wine - 3 parts Muscato, 2 parts Zinfandel. Nothing fancy but it goes well with most meals. I don't have a thing for vintage wines. I use a screw-cap for convenience though I can use some support for cork as I have a plot of land with cork trees in Portugal. My wine goes from the barrel, into a bottle and straight to the dinner table so there is no real need for a cap or cork unless for the rare occasion when there is some wine left in the bottle at the end of the meal.
 
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