Wine Appreciation Thread

Dont have much to add tonite other than I appreciate wine, of all kinds.... And would certainly drink the one above.

Heck, Ive been known to drink Muscadine Wine. From a solo...

If you like Pritchard Hill keep going up the hill to David Arthur. Try the Meritagio, a great cab franc and the Elevation.

And while I'm not having any tonight I have a very nice Rivers Marie Cab pulled out for tomorrow nights dinner after play practice. It will be good.

I love wine but I also believe wine is a lot of hype with price

I bought some $2.99 trader joes wine last weekend and put it in a decanter


All night people were asking what brand it was and how good it was. It was very good and $3. I've also had $50 bottles that were shite. 95% of the population can't tell the difference.

We went to piedmont in December. ..I think I finished every night with some barolo chinato.

Everything is hype but if consider the fixed costs of wine making are somewhat similar. That is a cork, bottle, ferment tank, licenses, etc... are somewhat similar. What it really means is sometimes a 3 dollar wine can taste delicious and sometimes a 50 dollar wine can taste awful.

But if you dont think the money actually spent on the juice in the bottle matters, you fell for different hype.

Really enjoying this right now, believe it was between $8-11 at Costco......where you can find some great values

Get better work colleagues

Not to mention, what they were really fighting about was whether a 15 dollar bottle of eine was better than a 40 dollar bottle wine

Just curious, but why was pritchard hill brought up for a wine located in the yountville/SLD area of the napa valley. Sure it sounds cool to say something that could seem relative, but nowhere in this thread was anything ever mentioned about a winery from there. A more accurate proposal would be to say "why don't you try to get your hands on some shafer. Potentially some of the best juice in the valley right next door to these guys. Or potentially Odette estate as well. Odette just released their inaugural 2012 vintage with Parker calling it one of the next cult wines if naps valley. They make a second label called Adaptation that's solid as well in Chard, Cab, and Petite Sirah."

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I think I finished every night with some barolo chinato.

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If you like Barolo Chinato, you'll probably like (if you haven't already had it) Amaro as an after dinner drink. I finish most meals with Amaro Montenegro or Nonino. Good stuff. It's sweet, bitter, alcoholic, much like me.