Lots of people talking about beer around here. But does anyone like wine?

What kinds, vintages, varieties?

:clinkclink:

Drink up!

Me loves my wine - ask JD infact, I bet I have more wine in my blood than blood

Wolf Blass, Brown Brothers, Cloudy Bay, Sauterne, la, la, la, yum, yum, yum!
(and that's just for breakfast).

AsylumUtopia said:

mmmm, sauterne & foie gras.

where are the others from?

i'm in france. i mainly know french wine.

anyone here drink chilean? that's what i order stateside.

REDFEATHERS said:

more than two glasses a day has been proven to prevent alzheimers.

how is your brain feeling today?

i'm a bit anal with wine. for red, bordeaux and chardonnay / chablis for white.

and i loove champagne (i could murder a rose in this beautiful weather now).

TheFrog said:

..wanna share???

Heiress said:

Buena

REDFEATHERS said:

of course!

champagne and strawberries.

rose is good.

but don't buy tavel. they pump it up with sulfites for commercial reasons.

find a nice faugeres, or something else produced in the south.

TheFrog said:

Where are you putting the straweberries????

REDFEATHERS said:

where am i putting the champagne?

TheFrog said:

Heiress said:

Yeah, I drink lots of Chilian wines too, my favourite wines come from Australia, NZ, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa.

Brown Brothers and Wolf Blass are Australian, Cloudy Bay is from New Zealand.

Sad to say I don't drink much french wine, except when I'm in France. You guys keep all the good stuff, so it's very expensive to get a decent bottle of French wine over here. Also many of the new world wines are more full bodied which is my sort of thing. Although, I had my first glass of Cotes du Rhone at the age of 9, and haven't looked back since!

AsylumUtopia said:

yeah, i agree, there are some great Chilian wines.

TheFrog said:

Yes, I was going to give names of some of my favourites, but I've got a sieve like a head.

AsylumUtopia said:

remind me not to bake a cake at your house.

anyone a member of a wine club? i used to be with the Sunday Times Wine Club but after ordering a few cases realised that you get a whole load of shite with the good stuff.

better experiences?

in my region (languedoc roussillon), we can get surprisingly good wines for under 4 euros. prizewinners, often enough.

even some of the boxed stuff is not 1/2 bad.

speaking of champagne,

blanquette de limoux is every bit as good.

so is saumur.

TheFrog said:

cross the channel, and shop in a french supermarket!

Heiress said:

i did do that a while back but made the mistake of doing it on a Sunday. there were only a few tiny little shops open.

TheFrog said:

that is so funny.

TheFrog said:

No, but I've done a couple of wine tasting evenings which were good fun and led to a few recommendations. The most interesting thing was blind tasting, it's actually quite difficult to tell whether some wines are red or white without being able to see them.

I always buy some unknown wine when I'm away in different countries, but my best experiences with buying unknown wines have been in France. I've been really lucky and have managed to get some really good wines very cheaply. Of course, this isn't a regular option for me any more (I used to live in London) as we sadly don't have a tunnel link from Dublin to France (or anywhere else). It would be ideal if we could just push England out of the way and slide Ireland over a bit to give us easier access to French wine. I hear the English weather's getting too hot during the summer anyway, so ye could probably do with going north a bit.

AsylumUtopia said:

Ain't it great?






I'd love that. It would get me to Ireland more often!

Heiress said:

And me to France! Now all we need to do is get the English to agree and find some really, really big lifting equipment!

white wine

or South African red

Good quality Calrets are where it is at. Yeah baby

Any fans of Spanish wine?

Rioja, for instance?

I hate to give the Australians credit in any way for anything because they are a country/continent of criminals/idiots, but they make a DAMN fine red wine!