Table wines! - Page 2 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Zerohour3k · #16 12-22-2006, 02:25 AM

Some really nice suggestions here. Thanks, guys! I'll be sure to try a few of these (not all in the same night, of course. That is, unless I want a VERY merry christmas.).

Orkrist2 · #17 12-22-2006, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by waybomb

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But I had some 1990 Valpolicella a few weeks ago. Can't remember the vineyard name. I had a glass, and then another. I complimented my host and asked where he bought it, because I intended to buy a case or two. It was that good. My host bought every bottle available. Something like 100 bucks a bottle. I don't know that I'd spend that much ever on a bottle of wine. But it was definitely special.

Thats a lot of money for a Valpo. I've never seen one so high but who knows. Along the lines of a Chianti or a Sangiovese, the Valpo has a medium body but without some of the tea baggy bitterness of a Sangio or Chianti.

Another easy winner is a Cote du Rhone, but in my experience the less expensive varieties vary wildly in terms of quality. I agree with the previous poster, check out the Wine Spectator, any issue has a category in the back like "best values" or something with some good advice. I love to experiment and try new wines, or at least I used to. I'm very hesitant to spend more than $20 on a bottle myself, I just don't buy into the hype.

I bartend and I've had a lot of fun with this. One time recently, I served someone (through a server to someone at a table, not to someone in front of me) a glas of house merlot (Blackstone BTW). She sends it back and says there's no way its a merlot, it must be a pint noir, and she wants a merlot. I gave the server a glass of pinot noir to take back to her and never heard back, twice. Also, every once in a while I'll have an open bottle of Opus I or some other high dollar bottle because someone bought it and didn't like it or realized how expensive it was or whatever. When someone comes in and eats at the bar and says I'll have a house Cab, I'll give them a $7 glass of Opus. They just sit there, have one glass of wine or maybe two, eat some pasta, and leave. I'm the only one who knows they're drinking Opus, they don't comment on it being fantastic, they're just having dinner. Call me a nerd but I get such a kick out of these little moments!

aklim · #18 12-22-2006, 03:09 AM

How about some liver with fava beans and a nice chianti?

gmercoleza · #19 12-22-2006, 10:16 AM

Fetzer Gewurtztrameiner - $7 can't go wrong.

John Doe · #20 12-22-2006, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by suginami

Any bottle at $10 and under is better suited as an everyday table wine.

Check the title of the thread

Or were you distinguishing b/t an everyday table wine and a holiday table wine?

Zerohour3k · #21 12-22-2006, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by John Doe

Check the title of the thread

Or were you distinguishing b/t an everyday table wine and a holiday table wine?

Heh heh. I was mainly looking for a holiday table wine. Not TOO expensive, but not a bottle of "two buck chuck" either. Though I will admit.. I have had some $2 bottles of wine that weren't too awful (Lost Vineyards Rose' is actually pretty good).

Fetzer Gewurtz... what kind of wine is that? I'm more of a beer guy.. heh heh.

John Doe · #22 12-22-2006, 10:59 AM

If you like beer you will not like Gewurstramener. Or Eiswein

Just get a few magnums of Yellowtail in merlot and charadonnay for $13/per it doesn't sound like anyone will have too many expectations and in that situation quantity is more important than quality (not that the Yellowtail is that bad). Merry Holidays!!

suginami · #23 12-22-2006, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by John Doe

Check the title of the thread

Or were you distinguishing b/t an everyday table wine and a holiday table wine?

Maybe it's how you define table wine.

My beloved grandfather, who passed away last year, was a wine drinker his whole life. His father came from the Old Country, where red wine was consumed like water. Even kids drank wine at the dinner table.

He routinely kept a bottle. No, better call it a glass jug. Bottle is too nice of a word. He kept a gallon glass jug of a red wine called "Dago Red" on the floor underneath the dinner table all the time. He liked his red wine warm, and he drank it out of a drinking glass.

To me, that is a table wine. One that rests on or underneath the table, 24 hours a day.

Mistress · #24 12-22-2006, 02:49 PM

I want another piece of cheesecake...the best wine I ever had was a Hungarian desert wine...don't aske me the name it was long long ago...

Robert Mowbray · #25 12-28-2006, 05:03 AM

So, how was it?

Zerohour3k · #26 12-28-2006, 09:50 AM

Dinner went really well, thanks to you folks. I ended up going with two nice bottles of Chianti for the pasta, and the Riesling for an after-dinner wine. People seemed to enjoy it, and it went with the meal rather well, if I do say so myself.

Hope all your holidays were great, too!

Robert Mowbray · #27 12-28-2006, 03:04 PM

Glad to help!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!