Wine List

[Rosemary]

Wine. You drink it? I drink it. Tell me about your experiences, good and bad!
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Tomasello Blackberry Wine:
Fruity, sweet, and tart! It's a dessert wine so it's also good drizzled over cream cheese, ice cream, or cheesecake.

Moscato:
White wine- I don't remember the exact type, but when I find it I will update! It's light, fruity, and so so so yummy. I'll be picking this up again as a favorite summer wine! I think I emptied the bottle on the first night.

Jam Jar:
Red wine- A sweet, fruity red wine with a little bite to it. I call it the 'cigar' taste. Also, the flavor is 'round' rather than sharp, if that makes sense? For a cheap wine this sure does taste amazing and it was recommended to me by several. So glad I took the plunge!



I haven't always enjoyed wine, but slowly I'm getting a taste for things I like. I tend to go for 'fruity sweet' wines which usually lands me in the 'cheap drank' section. I'm not complaining, so far all I've sampled has been of a delicious nature. I tend to gravitate toward dessert wines, but my two recent bottles were a surprise!

Also, as a newb, I don't expect any fancy wine jargon out of any of you but if you want to show off your skills bb please do!

 

[BCamden]

Drink Cheap Wine:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drin ... _wine.html

 

[AmberCutie]

This is my favorite "everyday" wine. $9.99, equals about 3 bottles worth, and stays fresh a long time!

From Trader Joes

I also love Pinot Noir (with pasta or cheese/crackers), and Ruby Port (as a desert wine, or when I'm in the mood for a sweet syrupy wine). For white I go with Pinot Grigio (Mirassou is my favorite) or a sweet Muscatto (Novella from Trader Joes is yummy and in a pretty bottle with angels on it).

 

[Nordling]

My everyday wine has a SCREWTOP and only costs in the $5 range but it's delicious, fruity, naturally sweet but not "sweet." a forgiving, friendly, loving cabernet sauvignon.

For sipping late at night I like something heavy; something you could smoke a cigar with (I don't smoke cigars but...) and not lose flavor... Petite Sirah! Maybe $15 a bottle. Make sure you open it at least an hour before drinking...it NEEDS to breathe.

*not to be confused with Syrah wine... a timid, puny nancy boy wine.

 

[Bocefish]

(Novella from Trader Joes is yummy and in a pretty bottle with angels on it).

Made me LOL

 

[AmberCutie]

(Novella from Trader Joes is yummy and in a pretty bottle with angels on it).

Made me LOL

It's like 2 feet tall and looks awesome on the counter after it's been emptied.

 

[RedHerby1]

now we are talking ! at every dinner I must have one or 2 glasses red wine, and to finish, a sweet red port with french and/or italian cheese, hehe, the port/cheese part not every dinner ...

And I discriminate, wine must come from France, thats how I was raised , ok ok, after seeing the movie Sideways, a road trip through California's wine country is also on my long term todo





btw, 3 liters, that is exactly 4 bottles

 

[CommonAnomaly]

Well, just so you're aware, Herby, on a scientific level, the Napa County in California, and more specificially the Russian River Valley, is the best environment on the planet for growing grapes.

Down to specifics though. I'm definitely a red wine kind of guy. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon are my favorites with some good Pinot Noirs not too far behind. There's a reserve bottle of 2007 Robert Mondavi Cab that's to die for. Kind of pricey though.

If you're lucky enough to be near San Francisco there's a small company with a store front in Ghirardelli Square (where the chocolate was initially made) called Wattle Creek. They have a Sparkling Shiraz that is easily the best tasting thing on the planet. For a limited run wine, only 5 barrells a year, its very inexpensive. $30 or so a bottle and even less if you join their free club. It's got a vibrant fruity taste, is pretty sweet, and overall just perfect. Plus, since it is carbonated you get to serve it cold. I highly recommend this to a wine drinker on any level.

 

[RedHerby1]

Well, just so you're aware, Herby, on a scientific level, the Napa County in California, and more specificially the Russian River Valley, is the best environment on the planet for growing grapes.

I know, thats why I did use the word "discriminate", it's stupid and there are no good reasons for it, its a mind thing at my side, caused by fact that during my education for cook at age 14-16 there was only French wine discussed during "drankenleer" ( I can't find the english term, something like "beverages theory"). The teacher, a catholic friar, did only talk about French wine, no other beverages, no other countries

Back in those days, we did drink in Europe only wine from Europe, France, Spain, Italy: Now there are also good wines from countries like Argentina, Chile, California, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand in the supermarket, thats good.

But there are fucking limits, putting the words, Shiraz, sparkling, carbonated, cold in one sentence, that is just insane.

 

[LaylaAnn]

Oh man do I miss my wine! Can not wait to crack open a bottle of Beringer White Zinfandel. Love the buzz from this stuff. Also, the Amish make a mean wine!

 

[AmberCutie]

btw, 3 liters, that is exactly 4 bottles

Ack don't tell me that! Means I drink wine much faster than I should haha.

I totally forgot one of my faves! Your French requirement reminded me.

Louis Jadot Beaujolais!

 

[spankamber]

omg im a total wino, today is one week no alcohol and im drooling...

 

[Rosemary]

ROFL! Aw, poor Amber Dawn!

Red wine makes me all warm inside I tell you what. I broke out into a sweat after my first glass.

I know this isn't 'wine', but there is a champagne out there called 'Pink' (I call it Pank Drank) that is super duper yummy.

 

[MrRodry]

Sangue de Boi - 4 liters :lol:
Really cheap ass brazilian "wine". Don't drink that shit!

 

[Cassidy Nicole]

I am all about Arbor Mist Any flavor they have is delicious. There was also a green apple wine, but I cannot find it anywhere! I am actually making home made wine for the holidays

 

[ViruSphere]

Can't drink wine because I find it tastes like cough syrup. I do enjoy a good beer, and unlike wine cheap beer is usually inferior to more expensive beers.

 

[Nordling]

Can't drink wine because I find it tastes like cough syrup. I do enjoy a good beer, and unlike wine cheap beer is usually inferior to more expensive beers.

:lol: Cough syrup? Sounds like you're judging all wines by Manischewitz, Mogan David or other "kosher" wines. Cheap wine IS generally inferior to more expensive wines, although cost is not an absolute guarantee of quality or lack thereof, just like beer.

 

[Rosemary]

I am all about Arbor Mist Any flavor they have is delicious. There was also a green apple wine, but I cannot find it anywhere! I am actually making home made wine for the holidays

Oh man, I used to like Arbor Mist. Maybe I should give it another go? Turning Leaf had the first wine I ever tried and liked (it was a yummy blackberry merlot) and then I tried Arbor Mist and it was...egh. I think that is where we had the falling out, LOL!

Good luck with the home-made!

Another wine I would recommend, especially for the holidays, is Gluhwein (pronounced Gloo-Vine). Stick it in a mug, warm it up, and YUM! I can't believe how tasty this was, especially for a non-wine drinker. I believe it is generally inexpensive, so give it a go if'n you can!

 

[camstory]

Just brought home a bottle of cheep chardonnay, the cheapest in fact, ($6.99/1.5L) Livingston Cellars, and knowing nothing about wine, my first sip said, flat, lifeless, just sorta watered down. Wish I had spent an extra $2 and got something with a little flavor.

 

[WildFingers]

White: Robert Mondavi Johannesburg Riesling, Apothic
Red: Apothic or Menage Trois
With dessert: Novella

To cook with: Marsala, Cassata, an any wine that I had purchased and I did not enjoy

 

[camstory]

White: Robert Mondavi Johannesburg Riesling, Apothic
Red: Apothic or Menage Trois
With dessert: Novella

To cook with: Marsala, Cassata, an any wine that I had purchased and I did not enjoy

I like this, and though I am sure it is not 100% right, I prolly should have noticed the screw off lid and made a different choice :lol:

 

[southsamurai]

layla already mentioned what is probably my favorite ever. Beringer's white zin is just like sex in the mouth for me. the perfect blend of fruitiness, specifically in the citrus and apple flavors with most years. not very tannic, just a hint of sweetness and a wonderful aroma that makes me think of early summer in the mountains. and its an inexpensive wine, so all the better i rarely if ever drink reds, even a really good one tends to be too tannic and dry for my palate. the only time i do drink them is with meals carefully paired by someone with a better sense of the art than myself, or when drinking local varietals.

for my money (when i have it) i prefer california wines to just about any other region except my own (more on that in a sec) the french wines can be great, but they tend to be over priced for their given quality. aussie wines are surprisingly good for a non-mountainous country, and again, reasonably priced for the average consumer.

now back to my region: north carolina. yeah yeah i know what yer thinking, rednecks and wine? bullshit. think again. Biltmore estate's vintners produce palatable and pleasant wines. as good as some of the california ones? no, not really, but as good as anything coming from anywhere but there and france, plus it has floral and woodsy notes that are unique to our zone. really, there is a special flavor from their wines that i havent found in any other, varietal for varietal. the chardonnay is particularly great.

but our greatest wines arent really made anywhere else. the muscadine and scupernong wines are absolutely astounding. yes, theyre sweeter than what most people are used to, but the flavor! muscadine is my fave if its a single variety wine. rich, sweet, bold. it hits your tongue and just explodes with the scents and tastes of a southern summer. the absolute best winery for our southern varieties and blends thereof is Duplin. aside from the aforementioned types they do blends of those grapes with more traditional kinds. even their deepest reds are still slightly sweet, the hatteras red specifically is better than any cabernet or merlot i ever sampled. the complexity of the taste blows my mind. less than 10 bucks a bottle, grown, pressed and bottled in my home state, and just bursting with fruity goodness... how can i not love it lol.

 

[EdgarAllenWhoa]

I know that in our quest for lovely wine its time to remember our friends that well...they tried at least...then they said screw it, lets reach for the bottom rung.

Ladies and Gentlemen may I present for your tasting pleasure.

Morgan David 20/20 Wine
(I use the wine term loosely, its actually termed a "wine product" so u can see where this is headed)

Otherwise known to the rest of the world as "The MadDog"
It comes in such flavors as red/orange/green/and yellow

Some call it the "rascal of the vineyard".

Most call it paint remover, favored by winos and university students (My first year at Uni. is where I was introduced to "The Dog" Orange flavor)

Lets take a look at some wine conisouers reviews of this sassy, bold, little gal that skips a light fandango, across the taste buds.
We are going to pull reviews of the kiwi/lemon (green flavored) MD 20/20
Cost: $2.39...lets call it a jug
Purchased: Pretty much at any nickel and dime, dollar store, oil and lube joints.

 

[EdgarAllenWhoa]

Sorry forgot to add in the reviews:

"Holy Shakespeare there's a whole bottle of this stuff?"
"What do you want me to say? It's green. It's glowing green."
"Kiwi lemon? What kind of combination is that? That's like banana tomato,"
"GIVES ME HEADACHE. MAKES HAIR FALL OUT"
made us Pass out blind drunk in our daughter's bed...we are terrible people...she woke up saying "Mommy, Daddy you smell like cat pee-pee"


Okay lets just say the reviews weren't exactly positive...but on the whole if your looking to get it done and you don't have any friends who are local "wineists" then maybe for fun and earth shaking hang overs the "Maddog" maybe just for you!



* Wineists: I don't know what you call the ppl who make home made rocket fuel and dish out for free to their friends.

 

[camstory]

Oh yes, I am staring at an upside down empty bottle of MD 20/20 protruding from my over flowing trash can as I now type this out. I have known for many years that the MD stands for Mogen David, and have done my best to educate my hoodrat friends, but they persist in calling it mad dog. I prefer the orange but only still drink it because of nostalgic reasons. :lol:

When I used to hang out with the homeless in Austin Tx. there was this old guy who would resort to buying mouth wash from the dollar store, (.98 store there) and he said the hang over from that was awful. It was funny though, once sitting at a bus stop with him the Austin city PD rushed up on us having seen him replace the mouth wash back inside the inside pocket of his jacket and demanded he pull the jug out. They were mader then a stepped on baby when they realized they couldn't haul his ass to jail for the strictly enforced law prohibiting drinking in public.

I wrote a piece in the news letter I was then editing that was picked up in part by the local Austin paper. One of the proudest times of my life. :dance:

 

[camstory]

Oh and I forgot to add, that I One time drank a bottle of Cisco. At 17% it can be sold in stores with out a true liquor license here in Ca. Drank the whole bottle cuz I was mad at the time, but I would be truly mad to ever buy another bottle, or for that matter drink a free offering ,but dam that shit fucked me up like the equivalent amount of 80 proof anything else. It was Barley palatable though.

 

[camstory]

Sorry forgot to add in the reviews:

"Holy Shakespeare there's a whole bottle of this stuff?"
"What do you want me to say? It's green. It's glowing green."
"Kiwi lemon? What kind of combination is that? That's like banana tomato,"
"GIVES ME HEADACHE. MAKES HAIR FALL OUT"
made us Pass out blind drunk in our daughter's bed...we are terrible people...she woke up saying "Mommy, Daddy you smell like cat pee-pee"


Okay lets just say the reviews weren't exactly positive...but on the whole if your looking to get it done and you don't have any friends who are local "wineists" then maybe for fun and earth shaking hang overs the "Maddog" maybe just for you!



* Wineists: I don't know what you call the ppl who make home made rocket fuel and dish out for free to their friends.

Great reviews, especial @the glowing green, it does...

 

[stu2]

I am UK so this has some things from my end but I have been so impressed with white wine a Viognier variety. UK is flooded with Chardoney old and new world a bit sweet for my taste but try a Viognier it will blow your mind taste and flavour just bursts out. I am not a wine snob and Chille and Oz and NZ do variety but really I would suggest try one from Lanquadoc region of France to get a marker on it before trying new world it will be £3-4 more but will give you a bench mark to judge against.
Red any thing Sicilian is good and don’t be stuck up about a screw top hell I have found great wine in a box and happily drank wine from cartons (2 Euro in Spain for a litre and oh what is that $2.5 to US).

Wine is made to be drunk so crack a bottle and sit back and enjoy and relax in nice company with sexy girls on MFC.
Great thread. Could lead to what do you drink when you Cam or Perv thread :dance:

My bad drinking Story is pulling a carton of Spanish Glug out of our rucksacks sitting on the stairs of casino in Monto Carlo with 2 friends and police were very kind and gave us a lift to the train station and telling us nicely that Mono really wasn’t our place. I was a student then on a rail card holiday in Europe and we could not afford a hotel so looked at longest train journey from where we were and went Monto Carlo-not a great idea being on a train for 2 days and trashed and broke but I can say I have been there and police are very polite and give people chaffure driven rides to the train station as long as you take a train away from them. :hello2:

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Mead. My favorite by far. Technically it's not a wine since it's made from fermented honey not grapes. But a lot of web pages mistakenly call it a wine so I'll add it to this list.

If you like a sweet wine you would love mead. It's usually sweeter than any wine but with no tannin aftertaste that grapes give off. And the honey flavor and aroma are very good.

 

[EdgarAllenWhoa]

Oh and I forgot to add, that I One time drank a bottle of Cisco. At 17% it can be sold in stores with out a true liquor license here in Ca. Drank the whole bottle cuz I was mad at the time, but I would be truly mad to ever buy another bottle, or for that matter drink a free offering ,but dam that shit fucked me up like the equivalent amount of 80 proof anything else. It was Barley palatable though.

....Ohhhh dude....Cisco...you are a trooper...I tried the Maddog, it bit me hard enough to never go near again. But.. Cisco you must have been seriously "chipped" about something to chug a lug that stuff.

Found this review, its a good laugh but there is a dire warning in amongst the lines about this "hooch".

Cisco is bottled by the nation's second largest wine company, Canandaigua Wine Co., in Canandaigua, NY and Naples, NY - the same company as Wild Irish Rose.
Known as "liquid crack," for its reputation for wreaking more mental havoc than the cheapest tequila. Something in this syrupy hooch seems to have a synapse-blasting effect not unlike low-grade cocaine. The label insists that the ingredients are merely "citrus wine & grape wine with artificial flavor & artificial color," but anyone who has tried it knows better. Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too. Everyone who drinks this feels great at first, and claims, "It's not bad at all, I like it." But, you really do not want to mess around with this one, because they all sing a different tune a few minutes later. And by tune, I mean the psychotic ramblings of a raging naked bum.

In 1991, Cisco's tendency to cause a temporary form of inebriated insanity led the Federal Trade Commission to require its bottlers to print a warning on the label (above right). The FTC also forced them to drop their marketing slogan, "Takes You by Surprise," even though it was entirely accurate. Read the FTC's full investigation on their own web page at this link. Since those days, Cisco is harder to find outside the slums, although the FTC's demonizing of the drink only bolstered its reputation for getting people trashed. Anyone who overlooks the warning and confuses this with a casual wine cooler is going to get more than they bargained for. Cisco will make a new man out of you. And he wants some too.