What is everyone buying and drinking right now that gives you the best bang for your wine bucks? For me right now..I have bought a few cases of Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc Regional Collection 2007. $8.99 at Costco. I just love it. It works so well with all the spring food we're eating right now. Rick
2005 Bodegas Borsao Campo de Borja. It's become my house wine for the last year or so. At $5.49 a bottle it's hard to beat (if you like the wine, of course).
Jon
Always a qpr favorite. Others recently: Hofer and Huber Gruner Veltliner, both @ $10/liter '06 Pepiere Muscadet $10/750 ml Iche (d'Oupia) les Heretiques $8/750 ml
Love the Hofer but I feel like I must finish the bottle with the crown seal. I also like Tortoise Creek Pinot Noir and Viogner for $8.99
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Recently it has been Bellingham Chenin Blanc 2007, from South Africa. A nice, dry and crispy one. With the deprecation of the US currency it is now
13USD in Sweden. Anders
I usually do one of two things with the liter GVs:
1) serve as apertif at outdoor parties 2) if just us for dinner, I fill a screwcap 375 all the way up and store in fridge. About 600 ml left, which is about what our average consumption is (400 for me, 200 for Betsy). Then I'll revisit the rest one night when she's away (or use for cooking). Will look for Tortoise Creek PN, thanks
Currently the wine is sourced from the Languedoc in a variety of flavors...PN, SB, Viognier, Chard, Syrah, Cab, Merlot and are labeled in an American way. All sell for roughly $8-$9 USD and are a good QPR.
thanks, I see the PN is at the Wine Shop on Upper East Side. If I'm in neighborhood (not this week with pope's visit!) during retail hours will try some. PN is the most interesting to me, as I find hardest to find drinkable under $15.
It's imorted by Mel Masters of JAMS Restaurant in NYC in the 70's-80's among others also known for his book on The WInes of The Rhone.
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They have indeed, it's a lovely floral Chenin with good balance. Really very similar to the basic Jasnieres but a little lighter.
(Puymeras) at 5 EU.
Sigh indeed...
I'm not very good at blind tastings, I can sometimes get the grape or even appellation (with luck) but stuff like vintage or maker usually is completely beyond me. So I like the idea of throwing a monkey wrench at those (few) who are good at it. :)
The story of Ugni in Le Faucon, which has pretty rude weather and is at altitude -- and organic grapes too, which doesn't facilitate -- is that over many years they tried different varieties to achieve physiological ripeness, with no luck (with white grapes) with the usual Rhone varieties. But the Ugni had been planted over 100 years ago, and was producing good fruit, so they stuck with it. An interesting wine, worth exploring.
cheers,
-E
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