/ck/ - Food & Cooking

i live in sonoma county and i can confirm that wine is for faggots

>>15349867
NAPA is for auto parts! Livermore is wine country!

>>15349828
I'm not a homosexual, so I prefer to not drink homo drinks like wine

kys

>>15349879
>pointlessly gendering everything
your masculinity must be hanging on by a thread lmao

>>15349888
spikem'n check'm

For me it is Trimbach (for women, but I am a man). To fuel my dysphoria of course

Does all chardonnay taste like rancid butter or is it just the stuff I got?

>>15349928
chards are for lards

Got two of each of these bad boys on sale for 25 bucks, both excellent wines and a steal for the $. Only other etna rosso I've had that was better was closer to 100 dollars, but did outperform a few of the much more expensive wines I drank in the same timeframe

>>15349928
avoid chardonnay under 30 dollars unless it is from france or specifies that it's unoaked, the bulk of these are oak bombs with full malolactic fermentation to get that really buttery quality that 40-and-up women love. They're also still in the nasty habit of bottling as off-dry or even semi-sweet wines. Kendal Jackson is fortified with late harvest gewurstraminer, for example.

that being said, El Enemigo is a fantastic and kinda weird chardonnay for about 25 dollarydoos, they let flor develop so the wine's got a savory edge like roasted nuts

>>15349965
thanks! I guess I'll stick to sauv blanc until my food budget gets a little higher. I picked up a pouilly-fumé last week that I'm excited to try, but I hesitate to insist on just French stuff and look pretentious as a result

>>15350033
Pouilly-fume is a great into to french wine, you can also consider white bordeaux for the yin to new zealand sauvignon blanc's yang, more restrained, mineraly, and limey, less tropical/gooseberry/grapefruit

Otherwise alsacian riesling/gewurstraminer/pinot gris are similar but different if you're craving variety, just make sure to check dryness levels if the wine/label specifies. All grand cru wine will be dry, but some of the wines get very ripe and developed despite lack of residual sugar.

Chilean chardonnay is often more lightly oaked and even completely unoaked compared to california if you want to give it another shot.

>live in norcal wine country
>just buy local wines from the winery down the road
>occasionally buy wines from a couple hours away
for me, it's Monte Volpe reds

>>15350054
aight, cool. Is there a book for this kind of thing or do you just know from experience?

>>15350068
shut up fat

>>15350074
Wine Folly is the best intro out there, it's general enough without being cursory to give you most of the info you need about any given grape/region/topic. Drinking wine will teach you regions and grapes, but there are plenty of classroom-setting trainings you can do and more gritty, detailed books too.

I work in wine and have done a combination. Texbooks are the quickest way to learn geography/terroir to a point, which will give you a serious leg up on normies, but a lot of weird niche regions and grapes get overlooked until you stumble upon them and read some old-ass feature from 2005 on a wine blog somewhere.

>>15350085
"no"

Fuck you guys I liked it

>>15350107
Wine folly *articles* are good. The infographics are among the worst things I've ever seen.

Anyone ever have this?

>>15350245
>australia
i know this is 4chan but come on...

>>15349828
my favorite wines are red and white

>>15350258
I just turned 21 and it was cheap and interesting.

>>15349828
>even a cheap Catena malbec got 91 points.
Argentina is the future. Best balanced and interesting wines I had.

>>15351006
>balanced
>argentina
I'll believe it when I taste it, IDGAF what some 100 point ranker says. The only good argie wine is torrontes

>>15351006
The future of Black people maybe

>>15351006
it's pretty meh tbhfam
very overtly and almost offensively oakey

>>15351049
Argie wine is for chads only, go back to your napa overpriced oak juice.

>>15349828
>Malbec
I think Malbec has become my favourite variety, it sits at a perfectly inoffensive point on the scale of reds, his coming from someone who used to main shriaz.

>>15350258
Australia makes amazing cheap wine and there's nothing you can do about it

>>15351054
>>15351056
Y'all fags don't eat a full churrasco when drinking, it doest makes sense with eurocucks soups and burgers really.

>>15351056
and that's coming from someone who likes argie becs
This 2018 Gascon was mediocre as well, but their 2012 vintage I had a few years ago was very pleasant.
2011 Norton Reserva has been my favorite argie malbec so far
>>15351092
I like that it's fruity and bold but not sweet
I also really like the deep inky color
Still hard to rival a good cab but it's up there

>>15351082
I think Napa wine is basically just Argie wine but with a higher price tag. Why don't you try something actually good for once?

>>15349828
I drank a bottle of valpolicella last night, it was actually great and I'll be getting more

>willingly ingesting neurotoxin
lmao

>>15351133
Like what? Rhône? Ribera del Duero? A fucking Barolo?
We are not in the 80s anymore boomer.

>>15351176
it's the only way to dumb me down enough to be able to speak to people like you

>>15351186
Why do you only drink ball buster wines? You sound like the boomer here, grandpa.

>Italy
>wine

>>15351197
So, what producers/regions?
I am genuinely courious now.

>>15351255
I mean I literally gave you an example of an argie wine that I liked, I'd think you'd have gotten the message that I'm an acid head

>>15351274
Great, a beaujolais fag.
Why I even waste time in wine threads here.

>>15351295
Did I mention bojo? Did ANYONE in this thread mention bojo? Is bojo an argie wine? How drunk are you right now?

>>15350134
Where did you read it?

>>15351324
https://m.mangabat.com/read-ss370885

>>15351255
valpolicella

>>15351348
I thought it was a longer series. Thanks anyway!

>>15351369
It is, but idk where to find the rest. That's about a quarter of it

>>15350258
Australia exports their garbage and keeps the best for themselves

what's some buttery ass wine that i can eat along toast?

>>15352170
Chard my dude. Or some Sauv blanc if you you have fruit jam with buttered toast.

>>15349867
>>15349873
Shut up faggots. Lodi wine blows both you shits out the barrel.

>>15349828
Is Coppola’s wine good for the price? I like his movies.

>>15352544
If you like his movies, you're probably the type to drink basically any swill without complaint.

>>15352549

https://www.wsjwine.com/

Can someone help me find a wine on this website? I got a pretty good coupon I want to use.

>>15349828
It's not fashionable wine but the last vintage of Alamos was quite good. Rich, chocolaty, but balanced.

Not going to lie though, that Riesling looks terrifying and I haven't heard good things about Coppola's wines.

>>15349828
Not Malbec or Reisling anyhow, fuck me grow some taste buds

For me it's Lambrusco. Love the slight fizz.

>>15354759
Imagine being this big of a pleb

>>15355333
Wah wah!

Anyone ever had wine from Tri Cities area in Washington?
Moving there soon and reading about how they have a decent local winery scene and wondering how their stuff actually tastes

>>15355382
are you me? GF and I literally just moved to Richland

Nothing, I'm on antibiotics and a bunch of antivirals and whatever else.
But I got a couple bottles of Port stashed for better times.

>>15355405
>gf
>are you me
no

>>15349828
What kind of wine is cheap and good for cooking?
I only keep a bottle of champagne around in case I have a lady over

>>15355492
depends on what you're cooking
gewurstraminer is great for french onion soup, cab franc is good for beef bourigignone
most stews demand amontillado sherry, though lobster bisque benefits more from cream sherry

>>15355510
I usually cook beef burgundy with Beaujolais but Can Franc seems like a good alternative

>>15355510
what's a good cheap white for cooking seafood pasta dishes

>>15354947
What does it sound like when you pull a tampon out of your vagoona?

>>15357362
You don't normally need that much anyway to splash in a pan with some scallops or whatever, so go for something nice. I like Savennières AOC

>>15357362
for cheap that goes will in and with seafood dishes: muscadet, verdicchio, vinho verde, picpoul de pinet, touraine sauvignon

>>15350245
it's way too bitter

Can anyone recommend some good dark red wine, just had this and liked it but it was a little bitter, I like it kinda , velvety? Idk

>>15360476
Try out a primitivo.

>>15360476
why don't you try apple juice instead you fuckinng preschooler?

>>15349867
that makes two of us. wine is for pussies. i wish there werent so many faggots here

>go into any store to buy wine
>a selection of hundreds of different kinds of wine
>have to get a degree just to find out which one is good
How do you do it, brehs?

Also, am I the only one who gets royally fucked from wine?
Over christmas I drank like three bottles by myself and I was totally fucking destroyed.

I never really liked wine as a teen but when having a very fancy meal with red meat like roast beef or a T-bone steak I got a craving for red wine.

I think the smell is really appetizing

>>15349828
I've had Francis Coppola wine once and it was very nice, would recommend and buy if I could find it locally here.

>>15349828
ethanol is a fossil fuel
It shouldn't be ingested. a small amount of pure ethanol can kill you.

>>15362634
who cares faggot