Favorite wines?

darklinensuit · #1 01-14-2004, 06:47 PM

I don't know much about ordering a good wine & seldom drink. How well-versed are you? Do you have a favorite?

- Jake

GypsySorcerer · #2 01-14-2004, 08:12 PM

I really don't like wine very much and rarely drink it. I'd just as soon have a mixed drink or a cold brewsky.

~Krista

dissention · #3 01-14-2004, 09:09 PM

I don't touch alcohol, but if I did, I'd be a Two Buck Chuck kind of person.

strandinthewind · #4 01-14-2004, 09:16 PM

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Originally posted by dissention
I don't touch alcohol, but if I did, I'd be a Two Buck Chuck kind of person.

Acutally that type of wine is a litytle in vogue now - think Boone's Farm!!!!!!!

I do not like wine that much. But, I have had some stellar wines before. My fav. white wine is Chardonnay from "Lindemann" an Australian winery. It used to be about $4.99 a bottle and now that it is popular - it is about $8.99 or $9.99 a bottle. Good stuff for a good price.

gldstwmn · #5 01-14-2004, 10:15 PM

Well, I don't drink anymore but when I did...

Veuve Clicquot
Moet White Star
Caymus
Cakebread Cellars
Silver Oak
Chateau Lafite
Mouton Cadet

There is also a fabulous, dry, oak-y chardonnay that I used to drink, however I can't remember the name of it. Dom is overrated, IMO. I did like Cristal but not for the price.

Mad4stevie · #6 01-15-2004, 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by gldstwmn
Well, I don't drink anymore but when I did...

Veuve Clicquot
Moet White Star
Caymus
Cakebread Cellars
Silver Oak
Chateau Lafite
Mouton Cadet

There is also a fabulous, dry, oak-y chardonnay that I used to drink, however I can't remember the name of it. Dom is overrated, IMO. I did like Cristal but not for the price.

Moet is a good champagne for the price. I personally prefer red wine - Merlot being my favorite.

For under $20, you can get a decent red wine. I have never had a bad bottle of Clos Du Bois. My personal favorite is a California wine called "Toasted Head". It is made by R.H. Phillips - great Merlot and Chardonnay. Very smooth so it is good for "beginners".

darklinensuit · #7 01-15-2004, 08:47 AM

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Originally posted by gldstwmn
Well, I don't drink anymore but when I did...

Veuve Clicquot
Moet White Star
Caymus
Cakebread Cellars
Silver Oak
Chateau Lafite
Mouton Cadet

There is also a fabulous, dry, oak-y chardonnay that I used to drink, however I can't remember the name of it. Dom is overrated, IMO. I did like Cristal but not for the price.

Never developed a taste for the dry stuff. Give me sweet, maybe with some ice cream thrown in.

- Jake

Gypsy-Rhiannon · #8 01-15-2004, 08:56 AM

I usually like a Shiraz but tend to have to buy anything cheap! I'm not fussy!

Pip

DrummerDeanna · #9 01-15-2004, 09:41 AM

I'm not a big wine drinker, but I used to be...a friend of mine and I were big winos lol...and we just drank a lot of reds...nothing special...just cheap nasty stuff..

I actually prefer whites, however, a good white zinfadel is usually okay with me...I also enjoy reisling, I like less dry, more sweet BUT not too sweet...we've got some decent wineries around where I live...so I've been trying more wine as of late...but I still prefer a good ole' gin and tonic to anything else

Mad4stevie · #10 01-15-2004, 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by DrummerDeanna
...but I still prefer a good ole' gin and tonic to anything else

I love my gin and tonics, too!

Bombay Sapphire all the way

DrummerDeanna · #11 01-15-2004, 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by Mad4stevie
I love my gin and tonics, too!

Bombay Sapphire all the way

Oh yeah!! That's my favorite, I prefer gin and tonics with that stuff...although someone gave me a big bottle of Tanqueray for Christmas..and I'm not complaining

Siri Ruane · #12 01-15-2004, 01:02 PM

I don't think I have a favorite.

seeker007nmss · #13 01-15-2004, 01:43 PM

My favorite in the casino. "Why didn't you tell me I was going to get a blackjack, I would have bet more". .... Oh WINE I thought you said "WHINE"

nevermind

chiliD · #14 01-15-2004, 02:02 PM

REALLY Sweet Wines (white):
Gewurtztraminer
Rieslings
Blue Nun (one of my faves...as well as Christine McVie's)
Liebfraumilch
any "Rhine wine"

Sweet wines:
Chablis
White Zinfandel (a "blush"...way back when they were called "rose (rose-ay)"

But, I still think there's nothing better than Chianti with a big plate of spaghetti & a tomato based sauce.

Wow, they still MAKE "Boone's Farm"?? I thought they went out of business when I stopped drinking it (back in 1973). I thought for SURE I was the only one keepin' 'em in business.

strandinthewind · #15 01-15-2004, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by chiliD
Wow, they still MAKE "Boone's Farm"?? I thought they went out of business when I stopped drinking it (back in 1973). I thought for SURE I was the only one keepin' 'em in business.

I picked up the torch in about 1983 at the age of like 15

My rite of passage into adulthood was going into a 7/11 and buying some "Strawberry Hill" while my older brother waited in his blazer.

Do not worry, it is still awful stuff from what I hear

Here is a related site

http://www.epinions.com/fddk-Wines-B...ne_s_Farm_Wine