What's your favorite wine?

[Fire Me Boy!]

For us wine drinkers, I'm curious about your favorite "drinking" wine (as in, something uner $15 a bottle).

I'm partial to the 2002 Hill of Gold Shiraz (Rosemont Estates) and the 2002 Coppola Premium Claret. Right now, I'm drinking a 2003 Coppola Zin.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by FAX

Château Lafitte Bordeau. 1953 was a particularly good year.

Last time I had this wine, it was served with a very nice filet at Stephenson's Apple Farm. Is that place still there?

By the way, this wine is so good, it's like drinking the tears of angels shed just for you. There is nothing quite like it in the entire world.

FAX

I have a particular affinity for Chateau Latour. IMO, it has more body and substance that the Lafite Rothschild, but perhaps lacking the finesse of the LR. (I used to have a small vertical of Latour until the prices went absolutely ****ing nuts around 1995. I refuse to pay those prices for an estate Bordeaux when they are pumping out 30,000 bottles per vintage, regardless of the reputation.)

Anyway, in addition to the Latour, I really enjoy the following:
Chateau Rieussec (I've got a '88 stashed still waiting for solid crystalization to happen)
Kenwood's Jack London Cab
Gaja Barolo (like the Gran Cru Bordeaux's, this became ridiculously expensive over the past 15 years, so I don't really seek it out anymore, but I think it's an insanely good wine)
Trimbach Gerwurztraminer (the base, regular vintage)
Domaine de Mont Redon Chateauneuf du Pape
Nuit Saint Georges Burgundies
Bodegas Riojanas Monte Real Gran Reserva
Gunderloch Weingut Rheinhessen Riesling Spatlese
Penfold's Claire Valley Cab Bin 707
Fonseca Vintage
Graham Six Grapes
Duck Pond Pinot Noir

There's more, but these are ones off the top of my head that stand out.

[petegz28]

Right now one of my favorites is the Louis Jadot Pino Noir.
I also really like the Coppala Pino as well. Especially if you can find a 2006 vintage

Any decent pino grigio I like too.

[luv]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Since wine availably and quality of a particular label varies over time, this tread needs a bump.

This zin is a real mouthful:

I need to find more of that.

[bevischief]

Boone's Farm.

[KC Jones]

On special occasions I like to get these:
Adelsheim Pinot Noir
Heitz Cellar Cab Sav & Chardonnay

Some of the rarest I've tasted:
1974 Chateau O'brien
1995 Opus One
150 year old port that came up with the Steamboat Arabia (didn't care for it much, but it was more the novelty of it)

I'm not a total snob though, we buy boxed wines too and I used to consider myself an expert in the sub $10 category (although that was 10-15 years ago when $10 went a lot further). Lately we've been drinking lots of Layer Cake.

[KC Jones]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsMan

I thought about going to a restaurant and asking for what they had in Sideways.

If you're in KC, you should just walk in and ask what Doug Frost reccomends.

http://www.dougfrost.com/

Doug Frost is a Kansas City author who writes and lectures about wine, beer and spirits. In 1991 he passed the rigorous Master Sommelier examination and two years later became America’s eighth Master of Wine. He was the second person in history to complete both exams and sixteen years later he is still one of only three people in the world to have achieved both these remarkable distinctions. According to USA Today, "Frost likely knows as much as anyone in the world about how to make, market, serve and identify wines."

Doug's cool too. He'll always say drink whatever the hell tastes good to you.

[DaKCMan AP]

Originally Posted by KC Jones

On special occasions I like to get these:
Adelsheim Pinot Noir
Heitz Cellar Cab Sav & Chardonnay

Some of the rarest I've tasted:
1974 Chateau O'brien
1995 Opus One
150 year old port that came up with the Steamboat Arabia (didn't care for it much, but it was more the novelty of it)

I'm not a total snob though, we buy boxed wines too and I used to consider myself an expert in the sub $10 category (although that was 10-15 years ago when $10 went a lot further). Lately we've been drinking lots of Layer Cake.

Layer Cake is good!

[googlegoogle]

Buy Chilean $4 buck merlot

[FAX]

1953 Rothschild Chateau Lafite.

This is the finest wine I've ever had. A fabulous meal includes a nice fillet and this wine. Frankly, I could live on this wine. It's spectacular. If heaven has a taste, it tastes like this.

At the rehearsal dinner for my wedding, my mother splurged and bought 20 bottles of this magnificent vintage. I expected to have several bottles left after the dinner for my personal stash. It was funny, though. The St. Henry's Monsignor and Deacon who conducted our service and attended the rehearsal dinner refused to leave the restaurant until every last drop was gone. Can't say that I blame him, though.

FAX

[Psyko Tek]

it's the word
THUNDERBIRD


and

night train's a mean wine

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by FAX

1953 Rothschild Chateau Lafite.

This is the finest wine I've ever had. A fabulous meal includes a nice fillet and this wine. Frankly, I could live on this wine. It's spectacular. If heaven has a taste, it tastes like this.

At the rehearsal dinner for my wedding, my mother splurged and bought 20 bottles of this magnificent vintage. I expected to have several bottles left after the dinner for my personal stash. It was funny, though. The St. Henry's Monsignor and Deacon who conducted our service and attended the rehearsal dinner refused to leave the restaurant until every last drop was gone. Can't say that I blame him, though.

FAX

I had two bottles of 62' it was amazing.

My favorite bottle around $100 would be Joseph Phelps Insignia. I think it's more since I got my last bottles.

That being said I am a big fan of finding geat values which I find all the time at Grocery Outlet since they bought out wineauction.com I am not a big fan of paying retail or merlot but for $15 Raymond Reverve merlot is pretty awesome. I get it at Safeway. there are great values out there right now folks, look for them. Great value in wines from South Africa, Australia and Spain.

[Johnny Vegas]

big fan of Clos Du Bois Cabernet. I usually get when its on sale for $9.99 from $16. As a gift I Louis Jadot Pouilly-Fuisse white burgundy wine. Also found a couple bottles on sale for $12 off from $32 and they're Sterling Cabernet and Rodney Strong Pinot Noir. I'm also a fan of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio. Very light and great with noodles or chicken.

[Bump]

I bought a couple bottles of the $3 cabernet bottles at Whole Foods. Not bad.

[pr_capone]

Peter Lehmann Shiraz



Best bottle of Red I've ever had.

[Johnny Vegas]

I really like shiraz. I'll have to look for that. I bought a bottle of Clos Du Bois shiraz for $10 and have yet to open it. Just waiting for the right time. Once I open a bottle its gotta be like 2 more after that. lol