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Can I get suggestions on a good red wine for $25-$50 bottle that would be available at good wine shops in my area (Detroit). I know nothing about it but would like to impress my friends with a good wine. Thanks for any suggestions.
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I can recommend a lot of different wines which many people will probably like but, remember the most important fact about purchasing wine; what do you like. You could try to second guess what others will like and you may not hit home. So I suggest you go to a good wine shop where the staff knows what they are selling and tell them what you have had and liked and asked them for some reccommendations. If you go to the same person each time he/she should be able to get a sense of where your pallet is and help you. One caution, knowledge of better wines could lead to spending more on wine. Also, there are verg good wine at all prices.I recommend you try:
Franciscan 97 Cabernet Savignon $15.00
Casa Lapostolle 99 Cabernet Savignon $11.00
Casa Lapostolle 99 Merlot $10.00
Felsini Chanti 97 $16.00
Antinori Chanti 97 $20.00
Guigal Cote Du Rhone 98 $9.00Vintage information to keep in mind; 97 Italians especially Toscany, 97 California Reds, 98 Oregon Pinot Noir are verg good.
Hi,1. How did you pick your moniker?
You could spend over $100,000 US, on a very impressive, very old, wine at auction. If the purpose was to "taste" it with your friends, I guarantee that they would not be impressed. If you and your friends read the NY Times, the morning after you bought the stuff, however, you would all be very impressed, that your purchase had been recorded there.
$25 - $50 buys one bottle of "THE BEST" Red, if they sold it by the bottle, (instead of the dozen), still in fermentation, in bond, not bottled yet, probably not even in cask yet, won't be available for you to recieve it or, to pay for it to remain in "bonded warehouse" for at least another 4 years. How impressive would that be?
By which time you and your friends would "know something" and in another 10 years time, the wine would start to be drinkable! Now that would impress them! That equals impressed friends for, at least, 15 years!
Seriously though..2. "I know nothing" - You say ???
3. What reds have you tasted, that you have either really liked, or disliked?
4. To each of the above named wines, Why?
5. If tasting, What will the circumstances of this "tasting" be? ie with or without, meal, party etc?
6. What food will you have with it?regards Mike.S.
Try a few of these:
Clos des Papes, Chateauneuf du Pape 1998
Lan "Viņa Lanciano", Rioja 1995
Noellat, Vosne-Romanee "Les Suchots" 1996
Bodegas Alejandro Fernandez "Pesquera", Ribera del Duero 1997
Remo Farina, Amarone 1995
Domaine Drouhin, Pinot Noir 1998These should be a fair example across your price range. Enjoy the vino.
Sean
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