 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
It is recommended to let red wine air out for a 30-60 minutes (?) before drinking. Is this after removing the cork for the first time, while in the bottle, or in the glass whenever drinking?Me and my wife have to be very low budget with wine and tried Fetzer Merlot 2001. We liked it quite a bit and were surprised how good it was for only $7. It wasn't all that interesting, but very drinkable and smooth. Any other suggestions for similar reds in that price range (max of $7)?
Jeff
Follow Ups:
When looking for inexpensive reds, one need not look farther than your average drug store. There are many fantastic reds available for few precious bucks. Depending on your taste, and availability, look towards Austrailia, Chile, and Spain for best value per dollar.Look for most anything from McLaren Vale Austrailia and Maipo Valley Chile. In my opinion, some of the greatest buys now are from Washington state. While not as readily available, or inexpensive as others, vineyards such as Kestrel, Whitman, Sheridan, L'ecole 41, and McCrea all produce outstanding juice. I try to stay away from California in the "best bang for the buck" area. There are great wines to be had in the Pacific Northwest!
Also if you are willing to go up to the ten to thirteen dollar range there are french wines of great value available from lesser designations. The AOC, is the french orginization that controls the production(to a certain extent) and especially the labeling of exported french wines, however wines that do not make the cut are designated "vin de paye" and so on. These are often very good wines at lovely low prices made from the same fruit, by the same makers of the expensive stuff. It helps to find an importer you can trust as well(Robert Ketcher for instance),their lable will be on the back of the bottle. If you can I recommend you go to a large wines and spirts store(the warehouse type) as they usually have people who taste everything and love to talk about it. In my experience value wines are quite easy to locate in these places, and I even had to insist to be shown bottles in the twenty dollar range. Good luck!
"Star-bright, medium green/gold. Pleasant aromas of spearmint, hay and melon. Clean, high toned flavors
with a decidedly floral aspect, rose, hyacinth along with apricot and peach. A wonderful wine at a
fabulous price."
Virginia Wine Guide (2001 vintage)
Try and find Chrysalis
spain, italy, chile, portugal, argentina, austrailia, new zealand are all relatively good buys. but so can be some california wines if you look around.. i just had a great spanish wine and let it air out for a while.. much improvement. the idea behind pouring a quarter glass or two out of the bottle is that there is more surface area (the main part of the bottle vs the neck...) and the aerating happens much faster. i received a decator flask a couple years ago that much increases the surface area and i use it everytime i drink reds...
Chilean wines are very good buys and the better ones are quite nice. My wife and I like Merlots, and we have found the Walnut Crest and Concha y Toro Frontera wines to be very drinkable. The Frontera is lighter and the Walnut Crest has a richer flavor with berry notes. Santa Rita and Santa Carolina also produce some fine reds. Chile also has some nice whites as well.To speed up the "breathing" of your reds, decant from the bottle into a wide mouth carafe or even a pitcher to expose more surface area.
There's a thing about drinking reds at room temperature. This is true, but the room it refers to is one from the 17 or 18 hundreds in a Chateau where the room temp was more like 60 degrees. So a little cooling may be in order. Try it to see. Some modern wines are blended for 70 degree room temperature.
Jerry
Hi Jeff. Might I recommend the Farnese Sangiovese Daunia 2002 from the Farneto Valley of Italy. It is available here locally in Nova Scotia for 8.99 CDN. Very affordable and quite a bargain. Check and see if this is available in your area. There are some descent Chilian reds around 10CDn that are fine also. I live near the Jost vineyards and enjoy their 10cdn cabernet savignon marechal foch blend which is only sold locally. I enjoy bargains too. Happy sipping.
The key is letting air contact the surface of the wine. So just uncorking the bottle and letting it sit, doesn't really do much - unless you let it sit for hours. There's just not enough surface area in an uncorked but full bottle of wine.So what I do is uncork the wine and pour two 1/4 full glasses. You can let the bottle and glasses sit for maybe 15 to 20 minutes and the wine should start to be much more drinkable then. You can also swirl the wine in your glass to make the process go quicker.
I normally sip the wine initially after opening, so see if the bottle is good or not. But save any serious drinking until after a half hour.
Seek out Italian wines for really good under $10 a bottle reds.
| Register / Login |
| ||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
