/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5287600]

Hi, /ck/. I'm looking to buy a sweet red wine with a price range of about $75-$100 dollars. I'd appreciate any suggestions you could offer. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.5287601]

a well aged chatueax

[Anonymous No.5287659]

>>5287601
If you decide to do that make sure you heat it long/high enough to kill the bacteria though.

[Anonymous No.5287666]

>>5287659
Stop

[Anonymous No.5287680]

>>5287601
I'll have to look into that. Do you know of any specific ones that would be good?

[Anonymous No.5287695]

When you say sweet, are you looking for a dessert wine?

[Anonymous No.5287698]

>not making your own sweet red wine

for $75-$100 you can make around 20L, if you already have all the equipment, you can make around 100L from just buying the ingredients.

fucking plebs buying booze, dumb idiot retards

[Anonymous No.5287701]

>>5287698
Oh hey family and friends allow me to serve you this wine i made myself in my fucking bath tub, such a great vintage, you can really get some deep, musky soap tones on the palate

[Anonymous No.5287705]

>$75-$100
Is that really necessary?

I've tasted dozens of wines in the $75-100 category and they taste similar to wines that cost $30 per bottle.

Very slight taste difference for a massive price difference.

[Anonymous No.5287707]

>>5287701
>doesn't know what a carboy and sanitizers are

[Anonymous No.5287721]

>>5287701
confirmed for no idea how to make your own booze

enjoy wasting all your money

>>5287707
he spends money buying booze, of course he doesnt know what they are

[Anonymous No.5287733]

>sweet wine

stop pretending to have class

[Anonymous No.5288476]

>>5287600
>sweet red wine
Just buy a bottle of coke, it's cheaper.

[Anonymous No.5288486]

>>5288476
I love that the "smaller" woman is roller her eyes back like it some sort of orgasmic pleasure to drink a whole two liter of coke.

[Anonymous No.5288507]

>>5287659
saying "a chateaux" means nothing. Maybe you want an Amarone.

[Anonymous No.5288524]

>>5287721
obligatory in erry thread. how does it go over when you break out the cheap homemade wine with the ladeez?
I do appreciate the science, dedication, and fun homebrew/winemaking is, but man it has its place

[Anonymous No.5288529]

>>5288507
if he wants sweet, he should go ripasso.

[Anonymous No.5288542]

>>5287600
I recommand an AOC Saint-Julien.
But dude, 75 to 100$ is quite a price, you can find a really nice red for 20 to 50$ max. Don't spend too much money in it if you're not used to drink red vine.

[Anonymous No.5288553]

>>5287600
I was in the wine business for a few years, so I could offer some good suggestions. But I need to know what you mean by "sweet", OP. Are we talking dessert wine? Or sweet like some of the wines favored by Germans and some Eastern Europeans? Or do you just mean less dry than a good French table wine?

Because in that price range many of the most sought after wines are pretty dry, with the exception of Port, which is a sweet dessert wine.

[Anonymous No.5288562]

>>5287600
40 bottles of traader joes 2.50 buck chuck

[Anonymous No.5288635]

>>5288542
Thank you, I'll have to look into that. I'm not really much of a wine person, but it's for a special event and I was looking for quality.

>>5288553
Honestly, just a sweet wine that would go well with a nice dinner. It wouldn't have to be as expensive as stated.

[Anonymous No.5288660]

>>5288635
Generally "sweet" wines are either paired with desserts, cheeses, nuts or very rich foods (like foie gras).

If you're looking for a classy tipple that has some fruit, isn't too heavy and pairs well with a variety of foods, AND you have a reasonably serious budget I'd advise checking out a 2002 Burgundy from the Cote des Nuits area. 1ere Cru will be out of your price range, but that year was so good even something you can afford from it ought to be great.

[Anonymous No.5288679]

>>5288635
Too much of what people know about wine comes from media. Good wine rarely needs to cost more than $40. Any more than $70 is just getting expensive wine for the sake of knowing what expensive wine tastes. The objective quality of a wine stops increasing at about $50.

[Anonymous No.5288723]

>>5288679

From the various people I've talked to in the wine industry, from viticulturists and vintners through to salesfolk, spending a lot of money is rather a waste. It obviously depends on the country, but here in the UK you can get fantastic wines for £20, and the best bet is to look into stuff that's not from the most known appellations, but from smaller producers in slightly overlooked areas.

[Anonymous No.5288858]

>>5288679
Anyone asking a question along the lines of what op asked wouldn't understand what makes a good wine food in the first place. To them easy drinking means good because they've been conditioned by brown forman and diageo to think that drinks under $10 are lighter fluid, $10-20 is swill, $20-50 is palatable, and over $50 is smooth as candy. In reality cheap wines are tuned to novice palates and "good" wines can have tannins or stylistic traits that can even be "icky" to the uninitiated. To use an example /ck/ will understand, imagine a gueuze vs a wheat beer.

Op should look at a $10-15 California or Australian wine with a cartoon label and a pun in the name. A vintage Bordeaux would just taste disgusting to them.

[Anonymous No.5288917]

>>5288858
If you absolutely must go with new world wine, buy Chilean or Argentine.

Otherwise my suggestion is get a taste for the old world first. Sample France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Germany has a lot of good Riesling if you need white wine.

Also you need to keep a couple of cases on hand. Never buy one bottle at the time, eventually you're going to run into cork taint, and then you need to have another bottle as backup.

Never store wine over 18°, lower for white. Never store wine upright, only laying down.