What's your favourite wine?

[Mizmazzle]

I’m not a wine guy by any stretch, however I do love a nice glass of wine. We stocked up on a case when we went to Italy and my wife has quite a few bottles from Argentina she brought back from a trip. We pulled out a few bottles from our collection for a Friday evening wind down…

Eeny, meeny, miny….

…moe!!

[Matt]

[Mizmazzle]

@Matt as I personally don’t know much about wine and often choose based off the label…I’d say this one has to be good!

[ROman]

@Matt How was it???

[Giles]

So what on earth do you drink with real food?

[hajduk]

Very nice Chardonnay from California

[gazza61]

Ch. Grand-Puy-Lacoste, Pauillac this is one of my favs

[mclaincausey]

Willamette Pinot is a go-to for us.

[hajduk]

And one beautiful Sauvignon from South Africa with home Chinese food made. Yes combo!

[seawolf]

@mclaincausey I've got a bottle of Rex Hill on my wine rack that's calling to me. Willamette is the only pinot noir I really like.

[ROman]

@hajduk said in What's your favourite wine?:

Very nice Chardonnay from California

I love this pic.

[mclaincausey]

@seawolf I won’t quite go that far on other Pinot regions (some continentals have been good, fewer California), but WV is not only my runaway favorite region for the grape but my favorite red short of brunellos, pauillacs, and the like.

[seawolf]

@mclaincausey WV and pinot noir are a match made in heaven. Big and bold are usually not descriptors associated with pinot noir, unless they come from WV.

I'm a big Paso Robles wine nerd, and I usually seek out bottles from the region because they're usually big and bold, but the winemaking skill is incredible there, and I have found so many great wineries.

This one is from a boutique winery called McPrice Myers, and their wines are consistently big, and the blends are always interesting and gorgeous. This is a GSM that I opened this weekend, and it was lovely.

[goosehd]

…you guys are killing me with the WV and talk of wine. I had to double check as I didn’t know that West Virginia was now into wine production…

[Tobi]

Here something tasty from my hometown in the Rheingau Region of Germany. Some of the better Rieslings grow here (the good ones not exported much).
Apologies for the crappy photo

[seawolf]

@goosehd Oh no!

Are we on the same page now? Willamette Valley?

[goosehd]

@seawolf We are as I had to reread the posts and figure out the context. Originally from WV(state) and you guys had thrown me for quite a loop

It’s good that you guys keep me on my toes…

[seawolf]

@goosehd That's good. lol

I think I read somewhere once that wine is produced in all 50 states, which isn't great. I've had wines from Massachusetts (where I'm originally from) and they're awful. Virginia (where I lived for a good chunk of time) had a couple of decent bottles. The Norton grape does particularly well there, but not much else.

Just googled because I was curious, and Alaskan wineries buy juice from other states and make the wine in Alaska. That might be alright.

I live squarely in a state with some of the best wine regions in the world, and there's always something new to try, and it's widely available all over. I'm always shocked when I travel back to the east coast and restaurant menus have one or two bottles from CA and the rest is old world wine. Here, it's the opposite. And most of my wine knowledge comes from experience drinking California wine, so I'm kind of lost when it comes to the old world bottles.

[seawolf]

Just googled again because I was curious. There are 2,843 wineries and 4,600 vineyards in California. Damn.

[goosehd]

@seawolf ...I'm up for a winery crawl.