That may have happened to me too. Used to be much more into beers. Now I don't really care as much. Just give me my Cabernet. Haha I used to always drink beer with pizza but now I've just switched that over to just having a Cabernet with pizza. Beyond just the taste, I just feel much better after drinking red wine than I do beer. I don't really get much of a headache from my Cabernets either, regardless of how much I drink. Not sure if lucky enough to be getting low tannin bottles or what.
Official Red Wine Review and Discussion Thread
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Yeah, 2 buck Chuck is not good. To be fair though, people that know wine tell me that when it first came out and for years after, that it was really solid, but then it took a nosedive.
^^^^ pizza and wine is great together. But what really goes great with a bottle of red is big juicy grilled hamburger. Damn...
^^^^ pizza and wine is great together. But what really goes great with a bottle of red is big juicy grilled hamburger. Damn...
Law of diminishing returns.
My favorite meal in the world is this:
- Bar seating at fancy steakhouse with nobody I know around
- High-End Cab
- Thick cheeseburger cooked medium rare with sautéed onions
- Fries w/ ketchup
The GYERO trip to wine country was one for the ages last fall. We visited/tasted the following wineries:
TOR - “cult” wine but I swear each pour tasted the same and isn’t worth the price IMO.
Schramsberg - my fave sparkling is their blanc de noirs. Love the Cremant as well. It’s a little sweet but a nice change of pace. Total Wine carries it.
Viader - Howell Mountain reds are delicious. Joined this wine club.
Sosie - small Sonoma winery. Good wines that were on the “cheaper” side compared to other places we visited. I like the Charles Smith cab.
Hamel - love their Isthmus wine (blend) and have been a club member since 2019. When we visited the “client ambassador” was from Kentucky and she treated us like royalty.
I love all the cabs Cakebread puts out but especially the Dancing Bear Cabernet (2018 especially).
I started liking wine when I worked at Nadine’s in college. Then me and @anthonys735 went to Napa in 2006 not long after we started dating. Back again in 2019. Then with the group trip, me and @drxman1 got involved in researching alllll the wines. He is obsessed. His favorite is Krupp Brothers.
I do like the Josh sparking rosè. Also Corner Wine in Lexington carries a sparkling rosè of Malbec that’s under $20… Reginato.
I want the next group trip to be to Champagne, France. We shall see.
TOR - “cult” wine but I swear each pour tasted the same and isn’t worth the price IMO.
Schramsberg - my fave sparkling is their blanc de noirs. Love the Cremant as well. It’s a little sweet but a nice change of pace. Total Wine carries it.
Viader - Howell Mountain reds are delicious. Joined this wine club.
Sosie - small Sonoma winery. Good wines that were on the “cheaper” side compared to other places we visited. I like the Charles Smith cab.
Hamel - love their Isthmus wine (blend) and have been a club member since 2019. When we visited the “client ambassador” was from Kentucky and she treated us like royalty.
I love all the cabs Cakebread puts out but especially the Dancing Bear Cabernet (2018 especially).
I started liking wine when I worked at Nadine’s in college. Then me and @anthonys735 went to Napa in 2006 not long after we started dating. Back again in 2019. Then with the group trip, me and @drxman1 got involved in researching alllll the wines. He is obsessed. His favorite is Krupp Brothers.
I do like the Josh sparking rosè. Also Corner Wine in Lexington carries a sparkling rosè of Malbec that’s under $20… Reginato.
I want the next group trip to be to Champagne, France. We shall see.
When I look at prices for wine at a restaurant, I am somewhere on a continuum that includes the emotional locations of bemused, fascinated, and angry.
The average wine markup in restaurants is 200-300%.
I met the guy that owns Caymus and started drinking some of their wine on special occasions. It is pricey but very very good
Total Wines always has employee selections which are generally well worth trying.
Kroger has become my wine spot and I do not have a refined palate. I like Gascon Malbec, Jacob’s Creek Shiraz, J. Lohr Cab, the Bogles, most 13 Crimes, 12 Hands red blend, Cooper and Thief, bourbon barrel, and will get an Apothic if I have coupon.
Anapamu used to be my go-to Pinot, but it stopped showing up where I shopped. If I want one now, I usually just grab a Bogle.
Pinot Noir
~Kings Estate (first tried this at Tony's and it is excellent....LB has it)
~River Road
~La Crema
Cab
~Seven Rings
~Caymus
~Josh
~Kings Estate (first tried this at Tony's and it is excellent....LB has it)
~River Road
~La Crema
Cab
~Seven Rings
~Caymus
~Josh
Got back from Napa over Labor Day - we brought wine check which is a check on bag that holds 15 bottles so we brought back some of our favorites. Had tastings at like 14 wineries and each time I got drunk and they mentioned anything about merlot I would make a joke about sideways where my wife would roll her eyes and the server would make a polite laugh although I’m sure they were rolling their eyes internally. I also asked like 5 of them when I was really drunk about that study done at the university of Bordeaux where they put red food coloring in white wines and the master sommeliers would describe them with red tasting notes to both my wife’s and the servers horror.
Anyway we had all the good ones Opus One, Caymus, yada yada. Wines good, I like it, we have a wine cellar in our house. But honestly if you just go to Costco and get bottles that are rated 90 or higher by wine enthusiast you’re set. That’s how I buy all my wine. All these wine stores have stickers with the wine rating on them. Just go and pick out the ones that are 88 or higher (you can always find a bottle in every variety under 20) and then impress your douchebag wine snobs.
Anyway we had all the good ones Opus One, Caymus, yada yada. Wines good, I like it, we have a wine cellar in our house. But honestly if you just go to Costco and get bottles that are rated 90 or higher by wine enthusiast you’re set. That’s how I buy all my wine. All these wine stores have stickers with the wine rating on them. Just go and pick out the ones that are 88 or higher (you can always find a bottle in every variety under 20) and then impress your douchebag wine snobs.
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Told my wife your red food coloring story and she could not understand why I found humor retelling your story about your “wives” and a server having whores. “Is it funny that he claims more than one wife or that they have whores?” 🤦♂️
This is absolutely true. Take for example a buttery Chardonnay. You have the classic Rombauer (referred to as “cougar juice” by those in the industry). This bottle is around 40 retail, but you can get a Rayburn which in a taste test 9 out 10 couldn’t differentiate between the two for 20. You can get the classic Belle Glos for 40 or one of the many amazing Willamette Valley Pinots (like the Wilametter Valley Vineyards Whole Cluster) for 20. Instead of a Caymus Zin for 50 you can get a delicious Saldo for 20, etc etc. A lot of time your just paying for the fact it was made in Napa (85% has to come from that region for it to be claimed to be from there) and Napa surprisingly only produces about 4% of all wine made just in California alone.
