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re: Good wines - both pricey and cheap
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:25 am to rowbear1922
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:25 am to rowbear1922
It’s good, just very young. Going right at the prisoner though. 
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Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:31 am to TheWiz
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Maybe it was $17 at Costco. It was either $16 or $17 IIRC.
My CVS, which marks up most of their wine $1-$2, regularly has it on special for $16.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 10:57 am to TheWiz
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Yes. Cannot argue that. By that logic of jumping up $20 for quality, they might as well spend $20 more than Belle Glos and get something FIRE like EnRoute Les Pommiers or the AldenAlli Pinot Noir.
But you can keep doing that too. For $20 more you can get Flowers, Bergstrom, Hirsch, etc. $20 more than that you can get Sea Smoke.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:02 am to TH03
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It’s good, just very young. Going right at the prisoner though
TH03, are you a wine rep?
ETA: Speaking of Prisoner, my Vivino just sent me an offer for Prisoner as part of it's "12 Days of Wine"
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 11:07 am
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:09 am to rowbear1922
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Sea Smoke.
I had a 2007 sea smoke a couple weeks ago that was incredible.
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are you a wine rep?
yes
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:12 am to TH03
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I had a 2007 sea smoke a couple weeks ago that was incredible.
For California Pinot, it's hard to beat.
Are you a rep in the BR area?
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:13 am to TH03
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are you a wine rep?
yes
You should share the wholesale wealth! A manager of one of my departments has a son that works for a local distributor. Nice getting wines at the distributor's price.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:17 am to TheWiz
Man this thread really needs user @JoeLeblanc to chime in with his "cultured palate". He should be able to give some pro tips for the pricey wine.
This post was edited on 12/4/18 at 11:18 am
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:19 am to TheWiz
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You should share the wholesale wealth! A manager of one of my departments has a son that works for a local distributor. Nice getting wines at the distributor's price.
Need to have a liquor license they can send it to. When I was doing the wine and liquor orders for a restaurant, the reps would sell me whatever I wanted for personal reasons and just put it on a separate invoice.....I had soooo much wine at the time.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:21 am to rowbear1922
no, i'm in dallas
even better for free.
I just got 2 3L of bogle phantom last week
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Nice getting wines at the distributor's price.
even better for free.
I just got 2 3L of bogle phantom last week
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:25 am to TH03
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no, i'm in dallas
Damn, had you been in BR there is a serious chance we knew each other.
I miss Wednesdays when I was still doing restaurants. I didn't have work but had to go in around 2-3 pm to do all my orders and meet with the reps. Most every week I'd do different tasting with different reps and most would leave the bottles (because we were the last stop for them) for me to take home. Even when I did order for myself, I hardly ever opened my own bottles because I had to finish the wines from Wednesday.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:26 am to TH03
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3L
Costco had some Freemark Abbey Cab and Miraval Rose 3 liters I wanted to grab, but I just didn't have any solid parties coming up to warrant the purchase.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:29 am to rowbear1922
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Most every week I'd do different tasting with different reps and most would leave the bottles (because we were the last stop for them) for me to take home.
shite, I take mine home and finish them with the wife.
I usually taste 3-4 at a time so it's a good night.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:30 am to TheWiz
yeah it's tough one to buy. I only get them from work. good for christmas coming up.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 11:37 am to TH03
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shite, I take mine home and finish them with the wife.
I usually taste 3-4 at a time so it's a good night.
The reps would ask if I wanted to take it home and since I didn't have work I'd always say yea. I'd end up drinking off of it for 2-3 days.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 12:28 pm to BugAC
Eloquent wine is the cheaper Belle Gros binaural Pinot Noir.
But are great buts it’s about a 40-50 dollar difference a bottle.
My favorite under 20 dollars is Chinon “Rive Gauche” Rouge, M. Plouzeau.
It’s made with Cabernet Franc. You can get it in the French wines section at Martin’s.
Bold flavors, acidic. Pairs great with food.
But are great buts it’s about a 40-50 dollar difference a bottle.
My favorite under 20 dollars is Chinon “Rive Gauche” Rouge, M. Plouzeau.
It’s made with Cabernet Franc. You can get it in the French wines section at Martin’s.
Bold flavors, acidic. Pairs great with food.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:12 pm to BugAC
We (wife and I) like red Zins from Napa. We like some Cabs as well but prefer the Zins.
Rombauer Zin. There are three or four variations all are excellent. Runs about $30 bottle.
Rombauer Cab. $50 bottle.
Cheaper Napa Zins we like are Red Tractor and Beaver Creek. Both at the $15 range.
Rombauer Zin. There are three or four variations all are excellent. Runs about $30 bottle.
Rombauer Cab. $50 bottle.
Cheaper Napa Zins we like are Red Tractor and Beaver Creek. Both at the $15 range.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:16 pm to pochejp
Get into Turley zins at all?
My favorite zins are from Sonoma's dry creek valley, the rockpile appellation, in particular.
My favorite zins are from Sonoma's dry creek valley, the rockpile appellation, in particular.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:22 pm to pochejp
Ridge makes some great Zin dominant blends out of Sonoma as well. Their Three valleys is excellent and their Lytton springs just made spectators top 100 and was delicious.
If you haven’t tried Michael David, they have some great zins as well, although they did just sell off their flagship 7 deadly zins.
If you haven’t tried Michael David, they have some great zins as well, although they did just sell off their flagship 7 deadly zins.
Posted on 12/4/18 at 2:45 pm to TH03
Zins provide the best value and are so versatile with food pairing. You can get a world class bottle of zinfandel for $40.
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