Need wine help!!

[jay]

Originally posted by ramirami



Red Red wine...

UB40

Wine colored Roses

George Jones

[jcantanixon]

I don't mind the threadjack, but I'm lost on the George Jones reference.

I've done some searching on BevMo.com and they only have a Cakebread 04, they have an '01 Chateauneuf du Pape's for $40, I also saw a Spatlese '04.

These is great! If there are any other specific recommendations, let me know.

[ramirami]

Originally posted by jay
Wine colored Roses

George Jones

Please bring me my wine, he said 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969'

Eagles...

[jcantanixon]

Here's what I've come up with so far:

Beringer Cabernet Private Reserve '99

Beringer Chardonnay Private Reserve '04

I figured it was kinda cool to get both wines from the same winery. Both of these are highly rated and only total $110.

Any opinions?

[Tim]

Originally posted by jay
A bottle of red, a bottle of white,
That song'll play in my head all night...


Billy Joel

He was singing about Long Island Wineries ...............

[CMasten]

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[robrecht]

Originally posted by jcantanixon
Here's what I've come up with so far:

Beringer Cabernet Private Reserve '99

Beringer Chardonnay Private Reserve '04

I figured it was kinda cool to get both wines from the same winery. Both of these are highly rated and only total $110.

Any opinions?

Personally, I'd still go with the Chateau neuf du Pape & Cakebread--too me that says more about discriminating taste than picking 2 wines that happen to come fom the same vineyard.

Have fun!

[ramirami]

Originally posted by jcantanixon
Here's what I've come up with so far:

Beringer Cabernet Private Reserve '99

Beringer Chardonnay Private Reserve '04

I figured it was kinda cool to get both wines from the same winery. Both of these are highly rated and only total $110.

Any opinions?

my personal opinion is that Beringer is too big a winary... I would try to get a good wine from a smaller winery...

[jcantanixon]

Originally posted by ramirami


my personal opinion is that Beringer is too big a winary... I would try to get a good wine from a smaller winery...

Both of the personal opinions above are welcome and will be taken into consideration. The problem is that I have no discriminating taste, so it's hard to show it...and it's difficult to get a good wine from a smaller winery if I don't know what constitutes a "good" wine.

I was just using the rating system on BevMo, which I think gives ratings from several different sources...also mentions when a paticular wine has won an award. To me, it's kinda like shopping for tires on tirerack. I read the reviews, check out the ratings, and try to find something respectable.

I'll keep looking

[Jet-Pilot-64]

Originally posted by robrecht
Personally, I'd still go with the Chateau neuf du Pape & Cakebread--too me that says more about discriminating taste than picking 2 wines that happen to come fom the same vineyard.

Have fun!

Cakebread with some sweetbread. MMMMMMM MMMMMMMM

[jcantanixon]

I found a Cakebread Cabernet '02 in West Hollywood BevMo. I guess it's worth fighting all of that traffic to make sure I get a nice bottle for a good friend, eh?

New shopping cart:

Guigal Chateauneuf-du-Pape '01

$38.99

Cakebread Cabernet '02

$64.99

Opinions?

[mgorbsk]

Originally posted by jcantanixon
I know that this topic is like a ghost town, and the odds of getting any help from here is minimal...but I thought I should give hp.org a try.
He's a successful lawyer in the bay area, so my standard wedding gift of a couple hundred dollars in cash doesn't work. .

Personally, I don't get caught up in all that. My recent Feb 06 Bro-in-law is a Corporate Attorney in NYC and knows lots of partner buddies scraping by because of their lifestyle with ridiculous debt and so called worth 2.2 million.. He could take 5 years off easily because his rent is a low $1200 and sleeps on a futon and eats tuna out of the can daily.

So anyhow..... Everyone likes to grill, how bout some Waterford glasses to go with the fine bottles of wine his lawyer buddies will get him, juicers are pretty big now. I like to give nice wind chimes. You'd be surprised at the impact. 1st their like... oh, a wind chime, how nice. Then they have people over and it sounds awesome and pretty soon everyone is asking where they got it. Trust me. I have this one in Mezzo-Soprano Japanese by my front door I can here softly right now. Click on the sound file and you can hear what I am hearing right now.

http://www.musicofspheres.com/chimesizes-mezzo.html

[flyinggeek]

I'm a big fan of the Far Niente and Nickel and Nickel (Sullenger) Cabernets. My big splurge each year is to pick of a case of each and lay them down to rest. The Silver Oak and Chimney Rock cabs are also very pleasurable.

I take part of the two year old inventory and use them as gifts each Christmas for the various oenophiles that I know.