thats wine as in the drink.. not whine as in a general whine about nissan prices etc..

So... as i sit here getting shitted on a bottle of wine, has anyone got any favourites? do cheap wines taste as good as expensive ones?

me? ive had a few bottles in my time but i cant be done with the whole wine snobbery thing... its like art, u either like it or you dont in my opinion, bollocks to the smell of hollyhocks and all that crap.

so come on then whats your fave wine and how much is it?

 

I personally like orchid vale from sainsburys, fiver a bottle. it tastes nice and does the job :)

 

(edited due to shit spelling...mental note , must read what im typing)

Im an expert on this.

I know how to tell a quality wine because it has a cork in the top whereas the not so good ones that I drink have a screw cap.

If the missus buys a posh bottle of dry red it can be made drinkable by adding lemonade to give it a sweet fizzy taste.

A bit like what southerners do with beer :D:D

Paul

Black tower, about 2quid form tesco, hardly has a taste so you can get ratted on it easy lol

Jacobs Creek is nice, Wild Pig from Sainsbury is great and cheap!

 

Black Tower! are you having a laugh next it will be Blue Nun!

I don't drink wine to taste it :) I drink a few bottles before i go out to get drunk cheaply then top up with Niagras and alco pops lol

I drink beer - real ale. I guess real (cask) ale is to smooth (keg) beer what dearer wines are to cheapo ones, so I reckon better ones are generally better. A good pint of real ale can be delicious, while standard keg beers are dull and mediocre in comparison.

 

There is wine snobbery which is annoying, but how many of those alleged connoiseurs [how do you spell that?!] really drink the dear stuff because they prefer it ??

 

Don't let the shallow snobs ruin your pleasure, but how much can wine REALLY be worth, no matter how good it tastes.

 

The other thing is you need to delelop a palate for wine (moreso than beer I think), so dear wines to a novice may not taste that good. Novices usually prefer sweet wines (eg Liebfraumilch), which become sickly to more experienced palates.

 

Lesson Over.

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

 

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

 

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

 

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

 

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

 

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

 

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

 

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

Casillero Del Diablo,

 

Its a white wine from South America and is absolutely ****ing lovely!. I think Stowells import it, check it out.

Order yourself a case of wine from the Sunday Times Wine Club.

Work out at about a fiver a bottle and have a good selection of red and whites.Have had a few of these and all the wines have been excellent.Will also help you decide which of the wines you really like for furture wine buying.

Cheers,

F.T.

Originally posted by BigRoy

Jacobs Creek is nice, Wild Pig from Sainsbury is great and cheap!

 

Black Tower! are you having a laugh next it will be Blue Nun!

 

 

Naaaa Blue Nun is shite:D Red Roy is far better tasting:D:D:D

I don't really touch the red stuff but I'm quite fond of white (I guess I'm a wine racist ;) )

 

The best wine I had was Reef Estate 1998 Chardonnay from Canada. Have a fair few bottles of this while I was over there, but the closest I can find over here is surprisingly cheap (about £5 a bottle) and that's the colombard by Galileo.

 

Turning leaf is quite a nice one too (about £6).

 

Black tower is just made for p|ss heads who don't appreciate good wine :D :D ;). Someone probably created it by crushing a bunch of grapes and then adding some white spirit.

Casillero Del Diablo I also agree rock star, excellent bottle of wine, they make some gorgeous reds as well!

 

The sunday times wine club is also good value for money, don't go for the bog standard selection but the next one up, every bottle of wine was excellent!

 

Mark

Nah, its all gone-off grape juice. Stick to Absinth:D :D

Threshers own brand ORIGIN aus cabernet sauvignon, best bottle of wine for a fiver I have ever tasted!

Originally posted by senna

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

 

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

 

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

 

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

 

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

 

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

 

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

 

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

 

Python, Class :D

 

Mike

IMHO, you should never drink anything red and french, Bulgarian reds (particularly the reserve Cabernet sauvignon's) are excellent as are the aussies and calis. Montepulciano di allbruzu is a fave Italian. All the above come in around the £7 mark. For a full bodied red you cannot beat Bull's Blood of yger.

 

As for white premier cru chardonnay (abit expensive), cali whites or a true sicillian white. German Eiswein (made from frozen grapes is good, but quite hard to find.

 

Never drink any table wine of any nationality as it is a mixture of wines and usually pooh.

 

 

OOH, listen to me gone all Ronay.lol.:rolleyes:

Casini (spelling) its like a cheap version of Lambrini. I realise no one thought it possible but its out there.

 

And for a posh Red wine - Oxford Landing - the choice of scholars

 

 

 

Rod

Its all b*llocks, who gives a monkees toss biscuit as long it gets you trollied!

 

Im a Redlabel Thunderbird man meself hohoho!!

Table wine is a strandard to denote a wine that does not conform to the established grades. Ie if you started a new vinyard in France and made a Merlot ina region where the Appelation Controlle is for Cabernet Sauvignon wines, then your wine would not meet the Appelation standard and would be classed as a table wine.

 

ALL wines are mixtures - unless you go for a single vinyard micro-wine - but get your monkey check book out - cor you won't find one of those for a fiver.

 

On a general note, in the uk, with the excise and tax, by the time you've allowed for the transport, bottle, label etc, a £5 bottle of wine has about 80p worth of liquid in it. Buy a £6 bottle and the contents MAY be twice as good.

 

Once you get much over £10 a bottle, then you're paying for name and exclusivity.

 

Best thing I ever drank was a 1989 Chateau Margaux, slurped this Christmas - That was about £200 and worth every penny.

Phooooo-ey!

For 200 dollar I'd have to have the waitress that delivered it too!

I rest my case, worth every penny!

 

:D

I you think about it, as ZX drivers, we are all trying to achieve driving nirvana on a budget. - and no matter how BIG the budget is, we're all on a budget. (I don't believe that anyone with limitless funds would still drive a ZX, good as they are. You'd buy a McLaren F1, Porshe GTR, Pagani Zonda, Lambo Murcialago, Ferrari Enzo, F40......all of the above???)

 

BUT,

if you are into wine, then you can drink the very best the world has to offer for just around a hundred quid a go.

 

Therefore, as eletist pasttimes go - it's really quite cheap !

 

And I still have enough left to spend on my Z ! what more could you want?