/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12901039
Some wine from the next village. Pretty known a few 100s miles away for being pretty good.
Just 8$/L so its not to expenisve to have some bottles inside the wine stand when you need a present.
Wasting big amounts of money for wine in Cuck tier, prove me wrong

>>12901039
I don't remember the exact name, I'd know it if I saw the bottle again but it was a Spanish Rioja, I really like those.

>>12901171
Mix that with champagne to make champipple.

>>12901039

I've had many glasses of wine OP, as I had lived in a very well respected wine country for almost a decade. The Camus 2008 Carbernet Sauvignon is the absolute finest wine I have ever consumed. This wine admits no description via flavor profile. It can only be described through synesthetic means, my choice being the sensation of liquid gold and velvet. I was served the Camus 2008 cab casually without any indication of its origin, believing it to be some $20 bottle of Trader Joe wine. The nose failed to belie the transcendent experience held moments away.

Most wines have some characteristic "semi-flaw". Some sharp, ever-present note that catches your attention briefly while your mind attempts to reason with it. The wine is "mildly fruity", "notes of pepper", "hot", "bright" et cetera. These tasting notes are not positive qualities, they are compulsions of the mind coping with imperfection, not appreciating. It was not until experiencing the Camus cabernet that I became aware of this paradigm. The Camus was perfect. No discernible flaws. Nothing that jumped out. It was a choir in singular balance, an indivisible entity standing on its own.

Friend of a friend is a garagiste. Got to hang out with him while I was over in france a few years back. It may have not been the "ABSOLUTE BEST" but theres something about drinking wine with the dude who made it, and see how happy the guy is that you like it.

>>12901039
>My dad was working as a programmer for a government department.
>Many of his co-workers were rich
Governement employees shouldn't allowed to be rich. They are rich from YOUR TAX DOLLARS and all they do is waste resources, limit your rights as an individual, suck corporate cock, and fuck your country up instead of being proactive and doing literally anything positive.

If taxes pay your salary, you shouldn't be fucking rich!

>>12901384
>t. underage b8 brainlet.

Ever consider the possibility that the government might require experts in a field to do critical, expensive, and complicated work? These experts should be compensated for their effort in accruing this expertise. For example, we pay lead NASA engineers 200k+ per year (at the high end of the spectrum, talking 20 years industry experience) in salary for spaceflight. If we want to launch rockets, we have to pay these government employees their market value, otherwise they would never work in the public sector, they would end up working elsewhere.

>>12901392
How about that, Elon Musk?

>>12901392
>we have to pay these government employees their market value, otherwise they would never work in the public sector, they would end up working elsewhere
As it should be. Since the private sector would boot them to the curb when necessary. The public sector would let them hang on a couple of years to get their pension or keep them around despite not needing them because "hey, why not? The taxpayer is footing the bill". The government is a bloated greedy pig.

>>12901392
>t. government pig feeding off the tax payers tit
Fucking scumbag.

Some 1990 croze hermitage my grand father left behind. He was accountant for the corporation for 20 years, but died when I was very young or I could have gotten some pretty nice bottles.

>>12901392
>the government might require experts in a field to do critical, expensive, and complicated work
If you're an expert in your field, or even slightly over competent, you don't work directly for the government. You might get some contract work, but you work in the private sector. People who have cushy government jobs re usually incompetent pieces of shit.

>>12901039
I went on a bender with Fuedo Maccari's 2016 nero d'avolo last year. Fantastic wine, and fairly priced.
Then it won an award or something, price got upped 10+ dollars, sold out, and now all you can find is their 2017. Not bad, but not worth buying more than a bottle for a dinner.

>>12901039
Duckhorn Decoy, at the Keg on Jarvis in Toronto a few years back. absolutely delicious.

>>12901612
Not a wine expert by any means, but this (and their merlot) are delicious

Every wine I've ever had was like drinking easter egg dye regardless of "quality"

>>12901039
Wine sucks, drink a real beverage you absolute fucking pussies

Can't say. Any bottle I've enjoyed has been far less impressive the second time around.

>1999
>honeymoon
>driving around italy with my new waifu
>"hey this village looks cute"
>pull into san gimignano
>buy bottles of wine from just about every house that has an "oilo y vino" sign on the driveway
>its all good, but nothing blowing me away
>pull up to this other house
>try their oil.. its awesome
>try their wine.
>holy shit this is the best wine ive ever had in my entire life
>no preservatives
>wont keep
>drink 3 bottles of it in one night
>never to be had again.

Throw a bunch of fruit and sugar in a black bag under your bed. Retrieve amd voila, you got vomit wine

>>12901039
I can never remember which wines i have liked the most mainly because i end up getting drunk and then the memory of drinking said wine is forever fuzzy. There hasn't been a wine i haven't liked. Im not picky little bitch.

>>12901404
Patently wrong. A nasa engnineer could just as easily work for any large tech company and make the same, if not more money with more benefits.

>>12901417
If one is providing a service to the country, then one is not being fed off the taxpayers tit, they are exchanging services for taxpayer money. You have an infantile viewpoint of how economics work.

>>12901458
This is also incorrect. Nasa employees are government employees, and they fund research and development that other sectors would not necessarily fund. So plenty of experts who want to conduct their research work for the government. You do not have an accurate viewpoint on how the government sponsors scientific innovation, something that is 100% important for the technological development of the US as a whole and benefits the tax payers directly.

>>12901039

Best wine I've ever had was a Furmint from Hungary. It was only a few years old, white, crisp and dry but with no acidity or tannins. Apple on the nose. In the mouth it was very savoury, pear, quince, sage. Savoury but also refreshing. Had it with some fresh seafood a couple of years ago and it blew my mind. Never had a white wine quite like it before or since.

>>12901113
>>12901171

Opus Ine 2009
Kind of a meme but it was pretty good
Had some grassy/herby notes that I dont usually find in wine.

>>12902522
Huh, so every overpaid and redundant government employee is basically the equivalent to a NASA employee? When you inflate the importance of positions that are essentially government waste to NASA scientists your entire argument falls apart.

Ok so I've been sad lately and have put down the hard liquor for a while. Beer is a no go because too many calories and carbs. Wine is less.

Recommend me some good shit, preferably that I can pick up at Walmart.

how do i get good at analyzing wines i drink? i can separate into wines I like and wines I don't like. and i have some favorites. where do i go from here? how do i start developing my pallet to identify tastes and judge wine more fairly?

>>12901204
Thank you for the tears of laughter

>king of floral whites

Reds it's got to be a Tannat or a Barolo I've had in the past few years. I've been wanting to try an Amarone for a while, it's meant to have an edge on a Barolo.

I was gifted a Tunisian wine 1998 vintage at Christmas which I was really looking forward to, but the fucking thing was corked. The most of the box apparently - it's definitely not worth keeping wine that long.

>>12901204
Holy shit what an absolute faggot.

>>12904951
I might be retarded but isn't wine supposed to be corked at the top.
Why was it not good i thought wine was supposed to be old.

>>12904850
>how do i start developing my pallet

Once you've developed an appreciation for the classic wooden pallet you may move on to a plastic formed one and from there a whole wide world of pallets

>>12905038
I've been trying to get one of those GPS pallets from WalMart. Is this safe?

The best wine I ever had was from a place called three blind mice or cats and it tasted like grape juice and was hard to boot. It was three dollars because they were going out of business and were offloading their inventory, I wish I picked up a case.

>>12901039
I like young Italian wines. Spending a ton of money on a wine that tastes like woody trash is for cucks.

>>12901384
The only people who are a watse of resources in the government are elected officials and their lackies.

best wine I've had was a meme CA pinot. Overpriced but the dark fruit flavors were absolutely delicious with the meal I had
I mostly drink argentinian reds nowadays, imo best price/taste widely available in the USA

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>>12901113
Based post. Just knowing that a giant jug cost me around $10 makes it taste 10x better

>>12901690
>>12901612
They used to be great, but they got bought out by a big law conglomerate and they've definitely gotten worse

This is my GOAT. I have some bordeaux in my cellar that has the potential to beat it but I won't know for another 10 years.

Barefoot pink moscato