In a wine tasting where not a single bottle of wine in the room retailed for less than $150. I had a good pour of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which retails at $1,000+, I was told. I couldn't taste the difference between it and any other wine in the room.
@KlfJoat Went to a wine tasting that cost $20 each just to walk in the door. Tasted a lot of wine. $ome good $tuff too. Wife walked out the door with a jug of cheap, screw on top, shoulda-been-in-a-box sangria.
I've only had apple wine. I'm allergic to grape juice. Yay.
Luckily for me there is a winery locally that specializes in apple wines.
Especially since I had a bottle of it on hand 3 thanksgivings ago. I had a huge turkey and it dripped over the sides of the pan into some trays I had set on the bottom shelf just in case. I opened the door to check on the bird and the pans caught fire. I pulled the turkey out of the flames, used the fire extinguisher, pulled the scorched pans and threw them into the yard, and started the turkey back up. Then I say on the couch and drank a whole bottle of apple wine.
I picked $50, but I think the answer is more like $75. It was a gift from my B-I-L who knows a bit about wine. I immediately brought out the 2 buck chuck to do a taste test with him and others. He failed as did most of us, and I have never again felt bad about buying cheap wine that I enjoy.
@sohmageek I don't know why you're sorry and I doubt Jesus could top it. Usually it involves me asking for money or the Amex Centurion which he has for business and because he travels so extensively for work.
They treat me like my tits are made of solid gold when I shop with that thing.
@cranky1950 Yeah I remember those days! Sitting on the Lake Michigan beach miles from anything drinking the Boone's Farm and reaching over and hitting the bong. Fond, fond memori...
What dear? Yeah I said hitting the bong. What? Gong? Oh.
My then-wife and I were visiting a couple, when a mutual acquaintance and his wife arrived. We weren't close with the guy, and it was only by the accident of our presence there that we got to share a magnum of Silver Oak cabernet that the guy had cellared for 10 years. This wine ... it's not so much what it was, but what it wasn't. The aging had taken off all the rough edges and the things-you-wish-weren't-present that a young bottle of wine generally has, so we got to experience pure deliciousness with no distractions.
I'm persuaded by people and studies that say there's no objective difference between wines in different price ranges, so I attribute this great experience more to the aging than to the original cost of the bottle (IDK what it cost, but Silver Oak ain't cheap).
When I was about 22, I was at a friend of a friends house in Montecito, which is a snooty area just outside of Santa Barbara. The mother of the friend wanted to have dinner, so I went outside thinking it would be something simple. The table outside was set like nothing I had ever seen before, and there were three people serving us dinner. The wine we were drinking I was told was over $1000 a bottle, although it did not taste any different than 2 buck chuck to me.
@spacezorro Catholic approved wine: Google search for a wine that is Canon 924 (of the present Code of Canon Law - 1983) approved. There are several mainline suppliers in the US that if you call them will sell you the same wine they ship to churches but bottled under a different label.
IME, Protestants will use any cheap shit handy - and usually grape juice.
Long story on how I know the Canon law for that one . . . has to do with a Rabbi, a priest and a nun walking into a bar.
In wineshops in Sicily, you take your 3-5 litre jug down into the cave where they keep the casks. Point and nod and they fill your jug. Two weeks later, repeat with a different wine. Costs about two bucks a litre, depending. Tastes nothing like the crap they export, and spoils you forever.
When I was growing up, my dad had a wine cellar - a real one with white brick, a big wooden door in the basement. He had racks and racks of mainly Gran Cru Bordeaux, including a case of Chateau Lafite from the year I was born.
Now, I didn't share his love for wine, in fact I never drank at all much, and when I was about 20, I stopped completely. Nothing moral, just don't like the taste of alcohol. But as a teenager we all had fake IDs and bought Boone's Farms, Mateus, Lancer's, T-Bird - and drank it out of the bottle like soda hanging out at the park at night.
So, one day, I decided to raid my dad's wine cellar and grabbed a few bottles of some shit, I didn't know. Moulon something or other. I brought it to a friends house and we popped the corks on them, along with the usual screw top Gallo shit. Drank it like soda pop and everyone whined about the "gritty shit" in the wine.
It wasn't till years later that I told my dad, and luckily he laughed about it, but told me I had taken three bottles of 1951 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, probably worth a few grand.
My story involves what I was told was $4000/bottle wine (our host brought it with us on the private jet we took to the event we were at). I don't normally drink wine, but I wanted to taste $4000/bottle wine. Unfortunately, I don't have a baseline, so I may be ruined for regular wine.
Why no option for wine comes in boxes??? Actually no I've had some of my wife's and I've purchased some ice wine. That shit is expensive. But not as much as some others. Box is my wine of choice. Now beers. I've had some pretty expensive ones there too.
@sohmageek Ice wine. Mmm. I'm not a fan of most wines, neither is my wife. We both like very sweet wines. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I was working at a state fair where the pavilion had a booth with wines and we're offering samples. I tried an ice wine and absolutely loved it. I bought a bottle for $99 and opened it in the hospital just after my wife delivered a short time later. We both loved it.
@wootcat that is an amazing use of ice wine ;) I love it. :) ice wine is expensive. I tend to get a little sample size every now and then (see twice in 10 years)
My wife once worked for an Insurance company that gave its employees a mixed case of wine for the holidays. Included with the cheaper wines were a bottle of Moet Cordon Bleu and a bottle of Chateau Beychevelle grand cru ($100+)
I was given a lovely bottle of Opus One. It was in the $500 range and although really, really good, I would never spend that much money myself on a bottle of wine. I have spent $100 on a Silver Oak Cab. Yum.
I was at work and someone brought me a glass of red wine. I had no idea what kind until after I drank it. It was very good so I wandered over to see what it was. Chateau Petrus 1980 something. We sold it wholesale for over $1000 a bottle.
SO... I do have a wine story I'll share with you... I'm a beer drinker over Wine... My wife Loves wine. I'll drink a good dessert wine, but other than that not much... So... a few years ago... we went out and bought 8 or so decent Vermont wines... Slowly but surely we went through 3 bottles... when going for the 4th... They were all gone... No one stole them, no clue where they disappeared to... things do have a habit of disappearing in one spot in the house are reappearing in another, mostly untouched spot covered in dust... it's the weirdest thing, and usually it's nothing we really care about, just something we were using... Broken keyboard I was using for parts, wine (that we cared about) scissors... I had bought about 8 pairs... slowly they all disappeared... Found them in the spare closet in a neatly stacked pile... (That was before it was the baby's closet) Weird shit huh?
$200+ for me, about 5 different bottles at that price range at a single event. When I was in college I was a bartender for a VERY high class catering company. I wore a Tux with vest (minus jacket) to work. One event we did was a wine tasting and afterward we were given a lot of wine that was opened and never poured or left behind by the vendor (a surprising amount was left but our manager speculated that was a kind of tip since we couldn't take cash). I took about a case back to my dorm room where we consumed around 6-8 bottles that night having no idea what we were drinking. The next day I did some research and figured that must have thrown up more money than I made that month.
Jana wine. Wife's name.
@Mehrocco_Mole priceless
@Mehrocco_Mole
Wine is disgusting.
The end.
@TheCO2 don't let @pespiwine know that....
In a wine tasting where not a single bottle of wine in the room retailed for less than $150. I had a good pour of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which retails at $1,000+, I was told. I couldn't taste the difference between it and any other wine in the room.
@KlfJoat Went to a wine tasting that cost $20 each just to walk in the door. Tasted a lot of wine. $ome good $tuff too. Wife walked out the door with a jug of cheap, screw on top, shoulda-been-in-a-box sangria.
Meh.
$500+ for me, but I wasn't buying, only drinking:)
I've only had apple wine. I'm allergic to grape juice. Yay.
Luckily for me there is a winery locally that specializes in apple wines.
Especially since I had a bottle of it on hand 3 thanksgivings ago. I had a huge turkey and it dripped over the sides of the pan into some trays I had set on the bottom shelf just in case. I opened the door to check on the bird and the pans caught fire. I pulled the turkey out of the flames, used the fire extinguisher, pulled the scorched pans and threw them into the yard, and started the turkey back up. Then I say on the couch and drank a whole bottle of apple wine.
I picked $50, but I think the answer is more like $75. It was a gift from my B-I-L who knows a bit about wine. I immediately brought out the 2 buck chuck to do a taste test with him and others. He failed as did most of us, and I have never again felt bad about buying cheap wine that I enjoy.
Jesus turned water into wine.
My wife can turn oxygen into whine.
Top that, Jesus.
And @Pavlov can turn my Stumptown Candy Peel IPA into something I spit at my phone.
@Pavlov I'm so sorry for so many reasons @mrspavlov
@sohmageek I don't know why you're sorry and I doubt Jesus could top it. Usually it involves me asking for money or the Amex Centurion which he has for business and because he travels so extensively for work.
They treat me like my tits are made of solid gold when I shop with that thing.
I only drink beer.
I've enjoyed quite a bit of good whine courtesy of yelp.
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Cisco, Boone's Farm & Night Train!! Nothin' but the worst!
@DemonMF777 I just put 190 proof grain alcohol in Hawaiian Punch. By volume, saves money.
@PocketBrain Too bad the 190 proof stuff is illegal in Florida... Best we can do is 151 proof!
@DemonMF777 come to Jawja and get lit, literally; this stuff is oh so flammable.
Boone's farm apple wine. and a bong
@cranky1950 Yeah I remember those days! Sitting on the Lake Michigan beach miles from anything drinking the Boone's Farm and reaching over and hitting the bong. Fond, fond memori...
What dear? Yeah I said hitting the bong. What? Gong? Oh.
Nevermind.
My then-wife and I were visiting a couple, when a mutual acquaintance and his wife arrived. We weren't close with the guy, and it was only by the accident of our presence there that we got to share a magnum of Silver Oak cabernet that the guy had cellared for 10 years. This wine ... it's not so much what it was, but what it wasn't. The aging had taken off all the rough edges and the things-you-wish-weren't-present that a young bottle of wine generally has, so we got to experience pure deliciousness with no distractions.
I'm persuaded by people and studies that say there's no objective difference between wines in different price ranges, so I attribute this great experience more to the aging than to the original cost of the bottle (IDK what it cost, but Silver Oak ain't cheap).
@dcc1079 I love Silver Oak! About 10 years ago it went for $70-80 in a liquor store. I worked for the distributor and wholesale price was about $50.
When I was about 22, I was at a friend of a friends house in Montecito, which is a snooty area just outside of Santa Barbara. The mother of the friend wanted to have dinner, so I went outside thinking it would be something simple. The table outside was set like nothing I had ever seen before, and there were three people serving us dinner. The wine we were drinking I was told was over $1000 a bottle, although it did not taste any different than 2 buck chuck to me.
I always liked communion wine before I became a heathen apostate.
I have tried to find out what kind of wine is used in communion, but whenever I ask pastors or preists they get upset.
@spacezorro Catholic approved wine: Google search for a wine that is Canon 924 (of the present Code of Canon Law - 1983) approved. There are several mainline suppliers in the US that if you call them will sell you the same wine they ship to churches but bottled under a different label.
IME, Protestants will use any cheap shit handy - and usually grape juice.
Long story on how I know the Canon law for that one . . . has to do with a Rabbi, a priest and a nun walking into a bar.
Seriously.
In wineshops in Sicily, you take your 3-5 litre jug down into the cave where they keep the casks. Point and nod and they fill your jug. Two weeks later, repeat with a different wine. Costs about two bucks a litre, depending. Tastes nothing like the crap they export, and spoils you forever.
@OldCatLady it took you 2 weeks? and do they frown upon like a dozen jugs at once? That may make it 2 weeks then... ;)
When I was growing up, my dad had a wine cellar - a real one with white brick, a big wooden door in the basement. He had racks and racks of mainly Gran Cru Bordeaux, including a case of Chateau Lafite from the year I was born.
Now, I didn't share his love for wine, in fact I never drank at all much, and when I was about 20, I stopped completely. Nothing moral, just don't like the taste of alcohol. But as a teenager we all had fake IDs and bought Boone's Farms, Mateus, Lancer's, T-Bird - and drank it out of the bottle like soda hanging out at the park at night.
So, one day, I decided to raid my dad's wine cellar and grabbed a few bottles of some shit, I didn't know. Moulon something or other. I brought it to a friends house and we popped the corks on them, along with the usual screw top Gallo shit. Drank it like soda pop and everyone whined about the "gritty shit" in the wine.
It wasn't till years later that I told my dad, and luckily he laughed about it, but told me I had taken three bottles of 1951 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, probably worth a few grand.
Tasted kind of meh.....
Price has little to do with the quality of a wine .
My story involves what I was told was $4000/bottle wine (our host brought it with us on the private jet we took to the event we were at). I don't normally drink wine, but I wanted to taste $4000/bottle wine. Unfortunately, I don't have a baseline, so I may be ruined for regular wine.
Why no option for wine comes in boxes??? Actually no I've had some of my wife's and I've purchased some ice wine. That shit is expensive. But not as much as some others. Box is my wine of choice. Now beers. I've had some pretty expensive ones there too.
@sohmageek I just read to tell the story... I have a few good stories about boxes of wine... I'll tell you about it when you get older ;)
@sohmageek Ice wine. Mmm. I'm not a fan of most wines, neither is my wife. We both like very sweet wines. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, I was working at a state fair where the pavilion had a booth with wines and we're offering samples. I tried an ice wine and absolutely loved it. I bought a bottle for $99 and opened it in the hospital just after my wife delivered a short time later. We both loved it.
@wootcat that is an amazing use of ice wine ;) I love it. :) ice wine is expensive. I tend to get a little sample size every now and then (see twice in 10 years)
My wife once worked for an Insurance company that gave its employees a mixed case of wine for the holidays. Included with the cheaper wines were a bottle of Moet Cordon Bleu and a bottle of Chateau Beychevelle grand cru ($100+)
I was given a lovely bottle of Opus One. It was in the $500 range and although really, really good, I would never spend that much money myself on a bottle of wine. I have spent $100 on a Silver Oak Cab. Yum.
I was at work and someone brought me a glass of red wine. I had no idea what kind until after I drank it. It was very good so I wandered over to see what it was. Chateau Petrus 1980 something. We sold it wholesale for over $1000 a bottle.
SO... I do have a wine story I'll share with you... I'm a beer drinker over Wine... My wife Loves wine. I'll drink a good dessert wine, but other than that not much... So... a few years ago... we went out and bought 8 or so decent Vermont wines... Slowly but surely we went through 3 bottles... when going for the 4th... They were all gone... No one stole them, no clue where they disappeared to... things do have a habit of disappearing in one spot in the house are reappearing in another, mostly untouched spot covered in dust... it's the weirdest thing, and usually it's nothing we really care about, just something we were using... Broken keyboard I was using for parts, wine (that we cared about) scissors... I had bought about 8 pairs... slowly they all disappeared... Found them in the spare closet in a neatly stacked pile... (That was before it was the baby's closet) Weird shit huh?
@sohmageek - I guess your ghosts have OCD?
$200+ for me, about 5 different bottles at that price range at a single event. When I was in college I was a bartender for a VERY high class catering company. I wore a Tux with vest (minus jacket) to work. One event we did was a wine tasting and afterward we were given a lot of wine that was opened and never poured or left behind by the vendor (a surprising amount was left but our manager speculated that was a kind of tip since we couldn't take cash). I took about a case back to my dorm room where we consumed around 6-8 bottles that night having no idea what we were drinking. The next day I did some research and figured that must have thrown up more money than I made that month.