Dear alt.food.wine, having recently read an article on consuming red wine and having good health, can you folks recommend a good, fairly priced red wine. We went to the LCBO (liquor store here in Ontario, Canada) and saw a 3L bottle of Carlo Rossi red for $22.95 Cdn. Is this a good wine? I read it is made in stainless steel drums, is this good? Some wiseguy mentioned that all Carlo Rossi's are not made with grapes, this sounds fishy to me.
Thanks again for the help,
LinuxOP
LinuxOP, I suspect you'll receive a ton of replies to this but I'll throw my 2 cents in. There are a lot of superb wines out there for $10-$15 but they can be hard to find. I am not sure about Canada, but here in the states $12 will buy you a bottle of crap in the grocery store, but it could also buy you a great French or Spanish wine at a decent wine shop. I am really on a Spanish kick for value wines these days look for some of the following:
Spanish
-Capcanes 2001 91pts by R. Paker $11 USD
-Castle Del Remi 2000 Gothm Brute (hard to find) 92pts by R. Paker for $10 USD
French
- Santa Duc cotes du rhone 1998 or 1999 $11 USD
- Les Grand Bois cotes du rhone 1998 $14 USD
Happy hunting and drinking!
Nick
If you are really serious and not just trolling here are a couple points to consider.
- once you open a bottle of wine you want to consume it. Unless you are having a lot of company drinking, 3L is NOT suitable. You can get away with recorking an open bottle and saving it for the next day, but you cannot treat it like a bottle of liquor and consume it slowly over a longer period. Don't even consider buying anything larger than
750ml unless you've got help drinking it.- in Ontario, the best deals are typically on wines from South America (particularly Chile) and former "east bloc" countries (Hungary, Bulgaria). You should be able to find decent wines under $CAD 10 easily.
Nick wrote in news:cXrYa.88139$YN5.63883@sccrnsc01:
Might be easier to find with the correct spelling:
- Castel del Remei; 2000 Gotim Bru
Robert
Hmmm, no replies. This is not a spam folks. Please post your recommendations for the best mid-priced red wines.
Thank you once again,
L> Dear alt.food.wine, having recently read an article on consuming red
linuxop wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@cogeco.ca:
I see four replies. You might want to check that your newsreader is operating correctly. hth dei
Look, Eye never clamed to no how to spell!
-Conde de Valdemar Riojas Crianza US$9.99
Italian -Ermacora Refonso 2001 US$12.99
Both can be found at K&L Wine shops at 638 4th Street in San Francisco. If you're looking for domestic red wine, I like Gallo of Sonoma's merlot ($5 at Safeway) or the Glen Ellen Merlot ($5 at Safeway). Enjoy!
Thank you for the reply, look like my isp's newsgroup server is quite screwy lately. It doesn't show any replies to my original query.
L> "Nick" writes:
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