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re: Give me your best wine under $50...
Posted on 5/25/20 at 11:07 pm to IAmNERD
Posted on 5/25/20 at 11:07 pm to IAmNERD
I love anything by Orin Swift even the brands he has sold. Mollydooker and Blue Eyed Boy is good too. Higher in the price range is Caymus. Those are my go to.
Everyday drinking (which we seem to do a lot these days) where you are willing to share with friends and neighbors, nothing wrong with Black Box Cab.
Everyday drinking (which we seem to do a lot these days) where you are willing to share with friends and neighbors, nothing wrong with Black Box Cab.
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Posted on 5/25/20 at 11:30 pm to IAmNERD
Black boxs cabernets..etc..house/party wines....
Posted on 5/25/20 at 11:56 pm to IAmNERD
You don't have a wine tasting room near you?
Posted on 5/25/20 at 11:59 pm to IAmNERD
I'm not much of a drinker, but I personally really enjoy Roscato. It's a sweeter red. So it might be something you would like as well.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:00 am to IAmNERD
EFFORT Pinot noir. 30 bucks for the 2016. It’s legit if you like Pinot Noir without breaking the bank. Discovered on a trip with wife to San Luis Obispo California a couple years ago.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:02 am to IAmNERD
Bonanza California Cabernet
This is made by the Wagner family. Same family who make Caymus. It’s a 20 dollars Caymus you can drink right now.
Pike Road Pinot Noire is good too.
There are a lot of good Chinons (Cab Franc) out there.
This is made by the Wagner family. Same family who make Caymus. It’s a 20 dollars Caymus you can drink right now.
Pike Road Pinot Noire is good too.
There are a lot of good Chinons (Cab Franc) out there.
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 12:10 am
Posted on 5/26/20 at 12:55 am to IAmNERD
Drink dry south American wines.
It'll change your life.
It'll change your life.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 4:21 am to X123F45
Op you shouldn’t be drinking $50 you should be drinking sub $20 or $15 bottles. Many of the more expensive wines are simply rarer, smaller wineries or otherwise fewer bottles made. Sometimes that helps with flavor, but not always. There are plenty of crappy expensive wines.
Find what you like and then start spending from there.
Find what you like and then start spending from there.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 5:48 am to IAmNERD
You sound like you might like port wines.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 5:57 am to IAmNERD
quote:
it's what I enjoy).
That's all that matters.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 7:05 am to IAmNERD
You may want to wait and gain some wine drinking/tasting experience before you order wine online.
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 5/26/20 at 7:29 am to IAmNERD
Also, I echo what Baldona wrote. You don’t need to spend much to get hooked, err, I mean get started.
If there is Fresh Market is near you, check out wine selections. There are ample wine selections that are under $20 to $25 with good value.
LINK Fresh Market locator
LINK Fresh Market 90 point and $20 or less
Here’s another listing of < $20 dollar wines.
LINK https://www.wine.com/
If there is Fresh Market is near you, check out wine selections. There are ample wine selections that are under $20 to $25 with good value.
LINK Fresh Market locator
LINK Fresh Market 90 point and $20 or less
Here’s another listing of < $20 dollar wines.
LINK https://www.wine.com/
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 7:43 am
Posted on 5/26/20 at 7:34 am to AbitaFan08
This is an excellent wine. Also his other one "8 years in the desert" is very good
Posted on 5/26/20 at 7:51 am to SammyTiger
quote:
There are a lot of good Chinons (Cab Franc) out there
OP is drinking moscato and wants other sweet stuff. Cab franc is about the driest most astringent grape varietal there is so this is the complete opposite.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 8:10 am to TH03
quote:I believe he's still calling that "dry." Compared to Moscato and Riesling, what he likes, everything is dry.
Nah, most domestic stuff is on the sweeter side, especially in the under $20-30 range
Posted on 5/26/20 at 8:19 am to Jake88
Maybe, but a lot of stuff that’s listed here are fairly sweet without people realizing it.
Orin Swift/Dave Phinney’s wines are about as sweet as a “dry” wine can get. Especially 8 years in the desert. He works with a lot of petite sirah and Zinfandel and harvests them later when they’re more ripe and thus contain more sugar.
I assumed by super duper dry with the $50+ price point, OP meant some nicer wines that are actually dry which is more common in that price range.
Orin Swift/Dave Phinney’s wines are about as sweet as a “dry” wine can get. Especially 8 years in the desert. He works with a lot of petite sirah and Zinfandel and harvests them later when they’re more ripe and thus contain more sugar.
I assumed by super duper dry with the $50+ price point, OP meant some nicer wines that are actually dry which is more common in that price range.
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 8:23 am
Posted on 5/26/20 at 9:56 am to IAmNERD
St. Supery Cab
Posted on 5/26/20 at 10:35 am to IAmNERD
Educated Guess - Cab
Posted on 5/26/20 at 11:24 am to IAmNERD
You might change. 5 years ago I loved Orin Swift and Caymus and now I pretty strongly dislike those wines. Drink what you like but work in some things you don't to see if your tastes change. IMO it's like anything else, certain foods/drinks/etc. are approachable but in time you grow tired of it and want something more interesting.
Since what you like is fruit forward, you might move into higher quality pinots and gamay (grapes) for reds. Wines like that are probably a good way to try things with some complexity but that will still likely appeal to you (or soon might). In general, American reds are going to be fruitier and "bigger" because that's what the public likes. High end classic American wineries might be more reserved, and a lot of what you'll find in the old world will be more subtle/complex/restrained.
Some favorite wines under 50 dollars or so that are A) fairly widely available B) crowd pleasers in my experience and C) have enough depth to appeal to most snobs as well
Ridge Geyserville (Zinfandel blend)
Chateau Thivin Beaujolais
Rivers Marie Sonoma Coast Pinot
Riesling is a good category to "grow" in, you might just progressively try better and better rieslings, and as the quality you're buying goes up, they'll likely be increasingly dry (less sweet).
Since what you like is fruit forward, you might move into higher quality pinots and gamay (grapes) for reds. Wines like that are probably a good way to try things with some complexity but that will still likely appeal to you (or soon might). In general, American reds are going to be fruitier and "bigger" because that's what the public likes. High end classic American wineries might be more reserved, and a lot of what you'll find in the old world will be more subtle/complex/restrained.
Some favorite wines under 50 dollars or so that are A) fairly widely available B) crowd pleasers in my experience and C) have enough depth to appeal to most snobs as well
Ridge Geyserville (Zinfandel blend)
Chateau Thivin Beaujolais
Rivers Marie Sonoma Coast Pinot
Riesling is a good category to "grow" in, you might just progressively try better and better rieslings, and as the quality you're buying goes up, they'll likely be increasingly dry (less sweet).
Posted on 5/26/20 at 11:34 am to Pettifogger
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Pettifogger
Dead on as usual.
Ridge is a fantastic producer. One of the OGs in California too, scoring very highly in the first judgement of Paris. OP would probably like Rombauer's Zin a little better, but I'll take Ridge any and everyday for zinfandel based blends.
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