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Posted on May 3, 2017 at 12:09:52
Inmate51
 I've found that inexpensive Pinot Noir can be a reasonably decent red wine with "every night" food.

I've also found that Clos du Bois at $8 is no better than Gallo at $4.

:)

 

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RE: Pino Noir, posted on May 10, 2017 at 15:45:56
triodesteve
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 You are a very lucky man. Do not, I repeat, do not drink any Pinot that is more expensive. Stay where you are and be happy and spend that extra money on someone you love.

 

RE: Pino Noir, posted on May 10, 2017 at 18:51:18
Inmate51
 Hahahahahaha!

You DID see the part about "every night food", right? I drink wine every night while prepping, cooking and eating dinner, and afterward. Over the years, I've found a few "easy quaffers" which are sufficient for the task and are quite inexpensive. Gallo Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are two. Jacob's Creek Shiraz from Australia is another. Less often, because it's a 10 mile drive one way, I'll get a bottle of Archero Nero d'Avola Sicilian red for about $6-$7.

Don't get me wrong - I love a Ch. Margaux or Leoville-Barton or Monbousquet or San Felice as much as the next guy, but I'd go broke drinking that stuff 7 nights a week! Which reminds me, I used to buy Monbousquet or San Felice a couple times a month, when Mon. was like $11/bottle and San Felice was about $7. When the rest of America "discovered" them, the prices shot up. Today, Monbousquet is about $50, and San Felice isn't far behind.

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RE: Pino Noir, posted on May 10, 2017 at 19:01:52
triodesteve
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 Sorry...of course I did. I just don't care for inexpensive Pinot as rule (finding anything under $30 is an accomplishment)
When I go inexpensive I go Spanish for red. Lots more white options.
Maybe thats what we should do here...cheap wines for everyday drinking. Start a list?

 

Agree..., posted on May 10, 2017 at 20:39:56
mkuller
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 ...hard to find a good pinot noir for under $40 these days.

 

RE: Pinot Noir, posted on May 11, 2017 at 10:59:16
jimbill
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 I've enjoyed Hahn SLH, De Loach Russian River, some of the Castle Rock single vineyard, Siduri regionals, and even Kendall Jackson. All $30 or under. Morgan 12 Clones can be very good.

BTW, there was a comment over on the Music Forum about wine. Seems in a blind tasting people can't tell the difference between plonk and expensive wine. Who knew?

 

RE: Pinot Noir, posted on May 11, 2017 at 12:29:35
Inmate51
 "and even Kendall Jackson."

Ouch - I hope they're not reading this!

LOL

:)

 

Blind tasting..., posted on May 12, 2017 at 08:27:48
mkuller
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 ...someone wrote a book about less expensive wines winning all their blind tastings and they list the winners - linked below.

And that's pretty much the experience my wine tasting groups has had over the past 7 years.

The reason is that in a blind tasting the one that wins is not necessarily the most complex, the most balanced or the one that will age the best.

The winner is usually the one that's fruit-forward and that's the most drinkable now. Simple wins.

Think Meiomi pinot noir. It won our pinot noir tasting 3 or 4 years ago and was banned after that.

 

RE: Blind tasting..., posted on May 12, 2017 at 17:13:32
jimbill
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 I would enjoy trying that experiment. Years ago we did the same thing with a bottle of Charles Krug Burgundy, maybe $3/bottle in the mid 80's. Brown bagged it and served it at the end of the evening at a fancy wine dinner. Most thought it was a Grand Cru Burgundy. Of course they had consumed a large amount of wine by then.

I would also put my wife up to the challenge. She doesn't know labels or prices but will invariably turn her nose up at a cheap bottle of wine. But then we're not big on soft fruity forward wines.

 

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