Poll: What are your current "house" wines?

Castano Hecula and Segura Viudas Lavit (pink, dry bubbly for SWMBO)

Mark Lipton wrote in news:FCEgd.545824$8_6.346919@attbi_s04:

99 Larose Trintaudon

Fred.

Lurton Malbec

Skalli Corbi?res

Montagny 2001 from Tescos at GBP 5.50, stunning value Wine Society Claret. JT

Mark Lipton wrote in news:FCEgd.545824$8_6.346919 @attbi_s04:

Roodeberg 2002 SA Bordeaux style

Bouchard Rully 2001

Both come in at about 10USD depending upon my source (as low as 8.99 for the Roodeberg)

2001 Artadi Vinas de Gain 2001 Falesco Vitiano 2001 Abadia Retuerta Rivola

Penfolds Rawsons Reteat Merlot or Cab.

Ch. St. Jean-Sonoma Chard.

Fairbanks (Gallo) Port

Rafanelli Zin Armida Poizin Ch Souverain Savignon Blanc Bill

2001 Osborne Solaz 2002 Bell'agio Chianti Shmidt Shone Reisling 2002 Black Box Cab

Walter

Woodbridge Zin (sometimes the SVS version) Leonard Kreusch Rheinhessen Auslese KOG Hill Chambourcin

Dan-O

A good question, but one which starts with an assumed philosophical position on wine, i.e. that "good" wine is not for daily drinking and that something more pedestrian (and cheaper) should be the daily accompaniment of life. I (he says pompously) eschew that position.

Life is too short to drink cheap (name your poison here.)

With the availability of a globe-ful of wines either within a short drive of most homes or at the finger-tips on the Internet, I prefer to explore further afield than a "house" wine. I try a lot of things and the dinner-time sip might be anything from a $5 Rex Goliath to a $30 Ridge Zin to a $50 California Pinot Noir to (only occasionally) a $120 bottle of socked away Monte Bello Cab.

My "house" wines (yes I have them) are employed in the reverse mode of the assumption of the question--and arguably in the Biblical expectation expressed re: wine at Cana. I serve the best first then the lesser later.

Some favorites:

Rex Goliath (all four varietals) Black Box Merlot and Cab Black Opal Shiraz, Cab and blends Columbia Crest Riesling and Gewurtz Tott's Brut Whiskers Blake Port

And, with the exception of the RG, gotta confess that I've not found a Pinot Noir that merits much respect at the below $15 US point.

Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled"

Although my household consumption is quite high (over 1 bottle/day), I have to confess not having a house wine, and not having had such an animal for umpteen years. My profession caters for a constant stream of wine bottles into the cellars - 100% back-up bottles from tasting between 3000 and 4000 wines a year. It's nice to know that you will never run out of wine, but the problem is: Only one single bottle per wine.

M.

We're currently drinking the 2002 Chateau Giorgianni Zinfandel.

Of course it took us 20+ years of practice before we could make a wine that was better than most of the $8 ones in the store.

Hi Mark,

Are you referring to the Mondavi Woodbridge? If so, it's $28Cdn. Can't seem to locate any other W. Cabs on our LCBO site.

All the best,

Larry Southern Ontario

Red wine

2002 Goat Roti 2001 Chatean Reynella Mclaren Vale shiraz 2000 Casa Lapostalle Cabernet Sauvignon 2002 Acacia Pinot Noir

White wine

2003 Nobilo Marlborough SB 2003 Villa Maria Marlborough SB

Cheers Cassandra

Red: Pergolas, old vines Tempranillo 2000 White: Wild Goose "Mystic River" Chardonnay '03

Both good value for the $, inexpensive, easy drinking... alone or with food.

Cheers Mathew

Amano Primitivo '02 Grgich Hills Fume Blanc Solo Rosa

So, what are the rest of you

2002 Goats do Roam 2003 Horst Sauer Escehdorfer Lump riesling spatlese trocken (sublime declassified auslese)

Regards

Snoop