Primitivo!Wow
Hope your prayers are answered.
Did you mean Zinfandel or Sin Finder?
Ewe r a trew connessure(shs)..uv poles. Beelated Happy Festivus!That’s a nice pole. I approve.
When hubby worked in San Antonio (~10 ya), we were very fond of Llano’s Shiraz!Whatever is sold at at a reasonable price...Whole Foods has the Turning Leaf (CA) $2.99/bottle in Cab Sauv, Merlot and Chardonnay. I’m sticking with the Cab Sauv so far.
My first choice with a bit more budget would be any of a number of South Australia Shiraz labels that normally sell here for $12 or so. Red Knot from SA’s McLaren Vale is a good example.
I would prefer not to.Anudder red whine dat duzzent geaux down eezy...inny poast bye hour Reluctant Scrivener.
Which Bordeaux, then? Cabernet Sauvignon?Voted Zinfandel but my fav is Bordeaux.
Good question. Some say that Chianti is a different category...Chianti lumped with other?
Maybe not for the Sardinian people who have low cholesterol because they drink red wine and have farming and family lifestyle.Wine is gross.
Maybe not for the Sardinian people who has low cholesterol because they drink red wine and have farming and family lifestyle.
That's why you should get your Eustachian tubes tied. It also prevents nagging if you ever get married.I don't drink any alcohol anymore. Many years ago I was invited to a party and I did like the taste of the Banrock Station Crimson Cabernet. But I remember wine gave me pain in the Eustachian tube and also gave me headache, and of course it made me drunk and the party room was starting to go round and round like a Carousel horse on the move, and I started to giggle for no reason.
Errrr. Wut?This thread is racist.
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Errrr. Wut?
I see, but this thread was not designed for white wine lovers.That is like me asking what is your favourite brunette, when you might like blondes much more than brunettes. It is a hypothetical of course, so don't take it as an invitation of posting pictures of such.
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This is so sad.I don't drink any alcohol anymore. Many years ago I was invited to a party and I did like the taste of the Banrock Station Crimson Cabernet. But I remember wine gave me pain in the Eustachian tube and also gave me headache, and of course it made me drunk and the party room was starting to go round and round like a Carousel horse on the move, and I started to giggle for no reason.
I see, but this thread was not designed for white wine lovers.
I tasted It. It’s a good one in its price range.
LolRacist.
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Racist.
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Sound like somebody watered it down before bottling it!Non-brand domestic wine with lower alcohol content. Easy to digest, doesn't give you a heartburn and actually tastes like grapes. There is no mass production the stuff so it's hard to come by.
Nothing like that. This wine is made from young grapes with lesser sugar content.Sound like somebody watered it down before bottling it!
Nothing like that. This wine is made from young grapes with lesser sugar content.
Please elaborate (and harvest)Wine is gross.
Wine is gross.
Please elaborate
It's just a different term. In my culture grapes that don't reach full ripeness are referred to as young.There is no such a thing as "young grapes with lesser sugar content". Sugar content is dependent on the level of ripeness in a particular variety, not of how old or young grapes are. For every grape variety and region there is an optimal level of ripeness. Picking the fruit earlier or later will result in worse wines all other things being equal. It is an often perpetuated myth among the hobby wine enthusiast (producers) that their wines are somewhat "better", because they are not mass produced and because they personally supervise/execute every step of the process, without realising that their knowledge is lacking as is their investment in the final product.
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It's just a different term. In my culture grapes that don't reach full ripeness are referred to as young.
Some grape sorts reach full balance earlier. Colder climate will also make sugar an thus alcohol level lower. https://vinepair.com/articles/best-low-alcohol-wine-brands/
Wine enthusiasts you make fun of are actually people who do these things for generations or even hundreds of years, like some orthodox Christian monasteries do. There is no mass production. People make it for themselves and eventually sell small amounts to people they know directly.
You're nitpicking as usual. There are different levels of ripeness."Grapes that don't reach full ripeness" are grapes that are not in optimal condition to produce wine and most of the time are simply unsuitable and will be removed from any sensible selection as their state will produce undesired (d)efects in the wine (most notably the balance which you mentioned in regard to something else).
If you read the article from your link there is nowhere mention of picking grapes before they ripen. The talk is about grapes (and wines produced from them) that have a naturally lower levels of sugar, and reach those in a natural way, which also means that the balance you are talking about is achieved automatically simultaneously with the optimal ripeness and not (as you suggest) by picking grapes earlier.
You clearly don't know which wine enthusiasts I am talking about (I am not making fun of the ones I talk about, there is nothing funny in ignorance and parading with it while producing mediocre results), and while nowadays it is very fashionable to parade with pedigree (preferably from "hundreds of years" ago as the greater the number of years supposedly the greater the result) the reality of winemaking is that the wine up until the 19th century the wine that was produced was a plonk (yes, even that delivered to the tables of the aristocrats and the high clergy) that can barely stand against even the cheapest mass produced wines of today (real wines and not some concoction of essence, aroma and neutral alcohol that some very cheap "wines" really are.
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'The Sideways Effect': How A Wine-Obsessed Film Reshaped The Industry
"Pinot noir production in California has increased roughly 170 percent since Sideways was released," says wine industry analyst Gabriel Froymovich of Vineyard Financial Associates, noting that total wine grape production has increased 7 to 8 percent during the same time. "I think people who were into wine saw the passion for pinot noir in the movie, decided to explore that variety a bit, and realized how lovely a wine that grape makes."
The Sideways Effect is also generally credited with depressing the market for merlot wine […] In a 2009 case study, Steven Cuellar, an economics professor at Sonoma State University, found a measurable decline in merlot sales of about 2 percent from January 2005 (the film was released in October 2004) through 2008. During that same time period, pinot noir sales increased 16 percent — it's now the second-most-planted varietal in California's Sonoma County.