Thread: Wine!

I see someone is paying attention.

Originally Posted by honedright

That would be in another thread titled "Whine."

Originally Posted by northpaw

Think it may have been wordplay: children "whine"

You guys spell it differently - does the pronunciation follow suit?


Red all the way, here. In fact, I just put in an order for ten liters of a local red I tried the other day. It's from a little vineyard, and the guy downstairs knows the owner. Fantastic stuff that should run about $8.00 total.

Originally Posted by majurey

There are two varieties, sub-10 years old:

Male -- extremely challenging whine. Can sound a little girly if very upset, but usually resolved with a clip round the ear.

Female -- annoying, but strangely compelling whine. Tugs at heartstrings and results in unexplained desire to buy a pony for them.

Neither are better, and both can be put in a cellar for years (if grown in Austria).

(Ouch.)

and yet more are paying attention:

Originally Posted by jockeys

give me reisling or give me death.

German whites are tops in my book.

Originally Posted by srkilpatrick

My wife and I love Chianti's. They seem to meld incredibly well with the foods that we cook for special occasions, such as lamb, steaks, risotto, traditional (meat bits) ravioli. We also enjoy Shiraz with the same kind of dishes.

Chianti is a very nice wine. Gabbiano Classico is a current favorite and quite reasonably priced.

I love wine. My MD told me to drink more red wine to get my blood pressure down. I think I'll keep that Doctor.

Good wine is one of my other hobbies. If I could find an importer to import
Ch. Ste. Michelle - Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot - to Norway I'd be happy.

Favorite house wines:

Red
Farnese: Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Torres: Sangre de Torro

White
Castello Di Arcano: Pinot Grigio
Dönnhoff: Riesling

My wine cellar is one of my other passions in life.

Well normally you pick according to the meal.
Fish and white light wine,
deer and red, etc

I prefer to pick the meal according to a good heavy red one.
Due to health issues I have that once a year and then I truely enjoy it

Originally Posted by JMS

and yet more are paying attention:

That "clink" noise you just heard was the penny dropping.... 24 hours too late!

I like Rhone reds the most but I pretty much dig all reds. It depends on what's for dinner.

I also like tawny ports. When it comes to white wine, I'm not a tremendous fan. I like Rieslings. I don't mind Pinot Grigio. I enjoy Orvieto. Champagne can be tasty.

i made a flippant remark about cheap wine earlier as a joke. but seriously, i would love to be able to set down with someone and been shown what wine goes with what food and why and actually try it, so as to see why it is so. i have several relatives and friends here in tennessee that make wine(and a few other kinds of alcohol) some are ok. i also have a few winery houses close by. to tell the truth the fancy wine for some reason does not impress me at all. is there an acquired taste for finer wines?

Originally Posted by 59caddy

is there an acquired taste for finer wines?

"Acquired" may better be phrased as "learned". It helps to go to a few wine tastings.

That said, once upon a time, I was at a party where one of the people involved owned a very high-class restaurant in New York City. He brought a couple of bottles of wine that cost somewhere north of $300 each. I can say that no specialized knowledge nor super-careful sipping etc. was needed to know it was a very fine wine!