Most under-appreciated varietal- Grenache Most over-appreciated varietal - Zinfandel Best with food (steak) - Merlot or Cab Best to guzzle poolside - rosé all day Best wine for taco night - Carmenere Best to compare regions - Pinot. I typically enjoy a good Oregon ($40-100) or Sonoma coast ($55-250) Pinot more than many of the over the top Burgundy Pinot. Favorite white - Viognier Favorite Sweet wine - go fuck yourself. Kidding, probably a good Sauternes. Merlot seems the safest wine to get a good bottle at a reasonable price. I don’t know what else I can add. If anyone has any wine science questions I might be able to answer. Like for example cork taint (2,4,6-trichloroanisole or TCA) is so strong that people can detect it in as little as 2 to 6 parts per trillion. To put that in perspective, 1 tablespoon evenly distributed would be enough to ruin all the wine in the world. For those who don’t know me, I’m a wine chemist, but I’d turn to Blazinggiants as the resident overall wine expert.
not. swayed. I bought you drinks at one of the m&g’s. I can take you, or easily outrun you. Otherwise, same team, brah. #FAMS
Gotta find the right kind of wine. I can’t do the dry red wine that is served warm....can’t do it. I like the chic wines.....cold white, light red, sweet. Wine snobs look down on that kind, but it’s good. I have embarrassed many of my friends by ordering that kind, it’s hilarious.
ain’t no shame in your game, FAMS! actually, ask educated wine buyers/somms/stewards.... there is a significant amount that say Riesling is their favorite wine.
You go upstate to get your head together Thunderbird is the word, and you're light as a feather. "What's the word? Thunderbird How's it sold? Good and cold What's the jive? Bird's alive What's the price? Thirty twice.
Enjoy what you enjoy. People get too self righteous about snobby stuff. Not just wine but, food, fancy cars, kicks, whatever. If you get real enjoyment from it (Kicks) then that’s fantastic. But it does matter if anyone else agrees. I really love good (usually expensive) wine but that’s my problem. I had a glass of wine last week (free) that was from a $2500 bottle. I enjoyed tasting and thinking ablout the vineyard, the winemaking style, the viticulture, the barrels, the yeasts and all that. I sipped and got a lot of enjoyment from it (still not worth the money, thank god it was free). But that’s me.
Oh hell yes!!! And twice on Sundays! Henry’s was legendary. It was like his rhubarb wine went in annual cycles, going from good, to very good, to great, to unreal and then topping out as nectar of the gods and then back to good......his other fruit wines were outstanding too. And he was never too picky about ID. As long as you were old enough to drive up to the tasting stand......
lol...that tasting stand was a hoot. You honked your horn and he came out with dixie cups. he didnt allow sniffing the wine either. He was legendary, they came from all over for his fruit of the vine!
