Wine General

[Anonymous No.19707063]

Pampaneo: 100% Airén staple white grapes of La Mancha region, intense full-bodied white

Drink Me Nat Cool: Portugal's low-intervention concept, simple, light and easy-to-drink red

La Traviesa: from Barranco Oscuro one of the first natural producers in Spain, Garnacha and Tempranillo, fresh, fruty and natty funk

Rietsch Tout Blanc: 1 liter of Auxerrois Riesling blend from Alsace, acidic cider like with white flowers


What are your next bottles?

[Anonymous No.19707148]

This last week, I finished off a bottle of 2021 Donnafugata Anthilia 2021, which, quite frankly, I did not enjoy. I don't know what it was, but I found an unpleasant note on the nose that of armpit or something which was hard to ignore.

Next week, I'm planning on meatier dishes for dinner so I'm probably gonna try the 2021 Saint Cosme Cotes du Rhone. Excited for this one because it's 100% syrah, unlike the last vintages and most Rhone blends

[Anonymous No.19707280]

Ricasoli Trapppola 2020
Probably not the intended way to enjoy wine, but I'm feeling like emptying the whole bottle because I really want to be drunk today.
It also tastes okay, I guess.

[Anonymous No.19708041]

I was thinking of buying a bottle of Jam Shed Shiraz 2022 and drink it with ice, what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.19708044]

God fucking DAMNIT FEDEX, just deliver my FUCKING WINE ORDER ALREADY.

[Anonymous No.19708177]

>>19708044
what did you order?

[Anonymous No.19708198]

>>19708177
Wine. Ten bottles since it was all on sale (pic related is one of them). The fucking delivery driver stops at my house, doesn't get out of his truck, and then leaves. This is the second time they've failed to deliver my wine to me and now I'm PISSED.
Anyway, if you want, I can look up my order to tell you the specific wines I got.

[Anonymous No.19708208]

>>19708177
>>19708198
Heres the list.

[Anonymous No.19708211]

What's a good red wine you can find at a grocery store?

[Anonymous No.19708221]

>>19707063
It's that gimmicky bullshit time of year
>>19708211
Look for Cupcake or Apothic. On the cheap end but they do the job. Sweet or dry though?

[Anonymous No.19708232]

>>19708221
>Sweet or dry though?
doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.19708297]

If I can't drink the wine as-is without food pairing it's trash not worth buying.
>Make paired food
>Eat and drink
>Half bottle or whatever still left
>Tastes like crap without the food
>Oxidizes to hell until next time I make dinner so it tastes like crap even with food pairing
It's just not worth it.

[Anonymous No.19708315]

>>19708297
Just buy small bottles. They're more expensive per volume, but allow you to enjoy wine without ending up with half a bottle of oxidized swill in your fridge.

[Anonymous No.19708322]

>>19708315
The amount of 375ml bottles to choose from is absurdly small. Also increases the price for volume. This is not a realistic solution where I live at least.

[Anonymous No.19708335]

>>19708297
Two things I'd do: first, get something like a vacu vin in order to prolong how long the stays good. Second, have uses for any oxidized wines you have. I typically add some to my pasta sauces, for example.

[Anonymous No.19708346]

Had this for the second time and I have to say I really like it.

[Anonymous No.19708353]

>>19708335
The first sounds like a good idea but the second.. I simply won't change my culinary rituals just to use it in some sauce or whatever. I have a few that ask for it but it's likely not going to be timed right. I guess it could sit for a long time if I don't intend to drink it directly but then I'm once again weighing in getting something I'd enjoy as is again. Especially if I can now save it for "up to" 10 days with a vacu vin.

[Anonymous No.19708388]

>>19708353
May I make one more suggestion then? Have you considered purchasing wines that stay fresh for longer, such as port or sherry?

[Anonymous No.19708397]

>>19708388
I mean sure, that's fine to have sitting somewhere whenever you need it. It's a much less regular occasion than dry red wines though. I can do both but the main point was to not bother with those that only really go down well with specific food pairings.

[Anonymous No.19708440]

>>19708232
Yeah apothic,cupcake and hell carlo rossi. Super cheap just get barefoot

[Anonymous No.19708445]

>>19708232
Decoy as well. Been told their cab sauv is as good as $100 bottles

[Anonymous No.19708926]

>>19708211
Depends of your region, but it's hard to go wrong with a cabernet if you are looking for complexity or boldness or a Grenache if you want something fruit forward and fresh.
I would recommend you to go to a wine store, what you can get in supermarkets is entry level shit.

[Anonymous No.19708933]

>>19708297
>>19708315
>Just buy small bottles
No, just don't buy shit wine. Put some effort into it, research or ask someone who know

[Anonymous No.19710293]

>>19708933
What, is there is no such thing as wine that only really works together with food pairing, that ain't shit?

[Anonymous No.19710545]

>>19708044
>>19708198
>>19708208
>FEDEX

rookie mistake

jamal is enjoying that wine right now

[Anonymous No.19710576]

>>19707063
I've been drinking natcool for a couple of years now and I only realized recently that it's a pun.

Anyway my bday is coming up and I think I'm gonna get a heavy hitter rioha, maybe why gay, someone convince me not to. The other idea would be a well aged burgundy but I'm gonna be in a flyover state when the big day happens and I have serious doubts about even getting a rioja that isn't marques de riscal so I may have to settle for a napa shitter.

[Anonymous No.19710595]

>>19708445
anyone can say this about any wine, it doesn't make it true. decoy is your average overengineered mass market new world wine, carefully calibrated to appeal to boomer taste buds. if you like that sort of thing, you're lucky, because you can buy it at the worst liquor stores no problem and if they don't have it in stock there's going to be several others in stock that taste exactly like it

[Anonymous No.19710611]

>>19710576
If you want a top notch rioja get a bottle of Viña Tondonia.
It's not cheap, It's arounf 35-40€ here in spain, but this is an iconic Rioja with a very traditional production and amazing wine to age

[Anonymous No.19710617]

>>19710611
I love RLDH but I feel like it's time to broaden my horizons

[Anonymous No.19711819]

>>19708211
just avoid anything below 10$

[Anonymous No.19711854]

>>19710595
Bit much but I guess? I trust recommendations from my fat bastard of a store manager since he's yet to suggest something shit. Just adding a selling point is all.

[Anonymous No.19711914]

I think I'm becoming an alcoholic, bros...
I've been buying 1 bottle of pic related every Friday night for over 2 weeks.
It's empty by Sunday night.

[Anonymous No.19711919]

>>19711914

[Anonymous No.19711984]

>>19708211
14 hands is pretty good for $20, red blend on the drier side. Had a glass earlier and it reminded me of some mix of cab and sweet sherry. Noticed no off notes, either.

[Anonymous No.19711990]

>>19708297
Just fucking cook coq au vin or something retard

[Anonymous No.19711996]

>>19711990
What a waste. I buy the cheapest crap for such things.

[Anonymous No.19712012]

>>19711996
It already oxidized so you did it to yourself

[Anonymous No.19712019]

>>19712012
So yeah, no point in buying that kind as I said. Thanks for nothing.

[Anonymous No.19712235]

>>19711914
one bottle per weekend is not a big deal

[Anonymous No.19712245]

>>19711914
I and the gf drink 1 full bottle and the half of another for the movies night almost every sunday.
that makes it 75% of a bottle for each.

[Anonymous No.19712270]

>>19712019
what the fuck is the point of even posting then you passive-aggressive retard, start a blog and turn off comments

[Anonymous No.19712658]

>>19708211
Ignore prior suggestions
Find a bottle of wine that costs between $10 and $20 that is imported from France. The cheapest french wine that gets exported is better than 99.5% of wines from north and south America.

[Anonymous No.19712670]

>mogs all other Californian wine

[Anonymous No.19712714]

>>19708322
If you're looking for a high volume of inexpensive wine and don't care about the flavor - to the point where you'd rather have spoiled wine than a little expensive bottle. Why not just go carlo rossi? Or Bota bag.