What nebbiolo would you buy for $20?
>actually, GOOD nebbiolo starts at...
Ok but I'm poor and I still like affordable nebbiolo and shall continue to drink it, congrats on being rich though

>>21838088
Vajra's Nebb is good value

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>>21838094
Yeah I've had that and liked it. What do you think of Vallana?

>>21838105
They don't sell them near me so I've never tried

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>>21825826
>>21826160
>>21826370
>>21826418
>>21826960

Alright, today's the day. Will respond with results.

>>21838298
Bergweiler is pretty decent. They're good value (even among Mosel) but never something I'd drink on a special night.

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>>21838298
original shitposter here, looking forward to either being vindicated or being called a tremendous prancing homo la la man, either way it will be entertaining

>>21838319
it's just a day with the lads, sounds fitting

>>21838298
>he posted his total wine haul

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>>21838298
>>21838319
>>21838329
OK im back still grilling but the riesling wins this one, sorry lad

>>21838489
Yes

>>21838544
What are you having it with?

>>21838549
Ranchero carne asada/chicken with fajitas guacamole and red salsa

>>21838544
Sovlful

>>21838558
I probably would have gone lambrusco for that

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Aving some Couchois Burg. Pretty tasty for the price.

>>21838663
Looks like it's got some years under its belt

>>21838669
Think it's the lighting. It's a 2023.
Irl the colour is classic burg.

>>21838088
Gattinara

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Drinking Barbara d'Alba Superiore

>>21838088
>$20 nebb
Colombera + Garella or Ioppa
most cheap nebb is absolute trash unless it's alto piemonte/gattinara/landwine
your options are tenfold if you spend even 5-10 more

>>21838878
Really depends on where you live, in flyover states you're looking at $35-40 for basic drinkable nebbiolo, in normal places you can get something good for $25

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Do not care for Nebbiolo

what is the purpose of a double wax seal?

>>21839683
>t. Collects Cru Beaujolais

>>21839909
If collect you mean buy and drink immediately then yes I do.

>>21839945
we get it, you like farts in your glass.

>>21839989
Filtered

>>21840073
i like my baroli unfiltered

2021 Paul Lato Matinee Pinot Noir

Muga Rioja

>>21840406
is it good?

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Thoughts on diaspora nebb?

>>21840407
It's okay I guess.
Not a big Rioja person in the first place but its a good traditional representation

>>21840421
I've had some good Nebb from Australia but most of it is ho hum.

>>21840421
Yes and then the vineyard was sold to some boomer that ripped out the vines and planted more generic vanilla cab

>>21840963
>california
it was inevitable, it's where wine culture goes to die

drinking white rioja

Had a Mount Eden Chardonnay with dinner tonight. Very good despite being the dreaded 2020 fire harvest year. Tomorrow I’ve got a 2019 Giacosa Nebbiolo Valmaggiore in the wine fridge to have with my cheesesteak.

>>21842217
let us know how that pairs with the cheesesteak, ya?

Alright /ck/ I have a lady coming over and I want to give her some sips but she’s unironically autistic and what’s the closest thing I can give her to fruit punch but wine?

>>21842424
moscato d'asti

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Favourite Rioja? Pic related is my cheap go to, never let me down

>>21842424
Go to the store, buy a bottle of sparkling apple-cherry juice blend
Claim it's wine with a straight face

Alright /ck/ I have nobody coming over and I want to give myself some sips but I’m unironically autistic what’s the closest thing I can drink to burgundy but cheap?

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>>21842538

>>21842703
I had that once and of all the LdHs I've had (cubillo, tondonia blanco, gravonia blanco, tondonia rosado, bosconia) I found it the most disappointing, could have been the year. Just seemed thin and nothing but acid. Still haven't had the gravonia or the red tondonia. I gather the red tondonia gran reserva is the "real" LdH.

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>>21842538
cheap(ish), and good
their blanco is even cheaper, and also a very solid full-bodied white. good value for money producer

>>21842806
I will always associate muga blanco with MILFs because there was a hot MILF I was trying to take home at a bar once because I heard she was having a falling out with her husband and she ordered a muga blanco and I tried to talk wine with her and she was having none of it and that was an utter failure

>>21842801
>I gather the red tondonia gran reserva is the "real" LdH.
Too pricey

>>21842806
Hey I had this, this week >>21840406

>>21842801
The Reserva Tondonia is considered the benchmark for the style and price, 50-60 bucks or so
but they really demand some age to start showing fruit, otherwise they're super tight and acidic. 2010 shouldn't be too hard to find and is drinking incredibly right now. They're also often the same price as current vintage (if the shop doesn't just hike prices whenever they want) due to inflation.

Maranges Pinot tonight

>>21843511
having some who from willamette, good stuff

>>21842824
Older women are the wine drinkers that I believe are most likely to know nothing about wine.

>>21843599
wrong, it's carymus drinkers.

>>21843558
The best region in all of America.

>>21844620
for pinot, maybe.

>>21844627
Yes the greatest grape

AS I LIKE TO CALL IT KINO NOIR

rutherford merlot 2019
>>21845454
after nebbiolo, maybe.

>>21845752
>after nebbiolo
No.

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Why are california wine fans like this?

i got too aggressive nosing my wine and dunked my nostrils into it i had to use a napkin to dry them and then i drank the glass it tasted alright

>>21819426
>Dom Dugois Arbois Vin Jaune '17
Was very vin jaune-y. Only had a glass of a vin jaune once ~two years ago but I'd say it held up well to the expectations from my memory. And at the price? Good stuff. Salty nutty fino
>Dom Carlines Cotes du Jura Poulsard '23
Reminded me of a burgundy pinot. Which yeah thin skinned grape in a colder climate not terribly surprising. Acidity, a good amount of mushroom taste, bright fruit, very light body yet still having tannic grip.
>Michel Tissot Cotes du Jura Savagnin '23
This I found to be the most "generic". Still a good wine just not an overly unique specimen imo. Tasted like a bit of vanilla and maybe even a bit of ammonia? Idk mostly just sour as all hell

>>21846078
Oh yeah and the ice wine was breddy gud but I'd prefer Royal Tokaji's Late Harvest at like half the price
Sipping an Argyle Willamette Pinot cause you fuckers just meme'd me into it and it's meh. Only a $20ish bottle but even still there's a million other bottles I could get for $20 that I'd prefer
On another note I tried an orange wine made from riesling which was actually breddy good (union sacre out of CA)
Also like 3 months ago I had a ramato (skin contact pinot gris) out of abruzzo and it stood out as one of the more interesting wines I've had

>>21839909
Do people still hate on Beaujolais? Is this the 90s?

>>21845771
We get it, you’re scared of tannins

>>21846311
Are you saying this because you should feel bad about not jumping on the latest trend, or because that was good harvest years for Beaujolais or something?

>>21846078
>>21846083
Based enjoyer.
Willamette Pinot is good but never great imo. It's just good for American wine. Cause California is mostly trash (for me).

>>21846722
Yeah if california didn't exist as a cautionary example of how NOT to make pinot noir, no one would care about oregon

>>21846898
TRVKE
[spoiler]is washington any better?[/spoiler]

>>21846974
Washington is like Sonoma-tier pretentiousness with north fork of Long Island tier wine

>>21846898
How not to make anything desu
Their Chardonnay is criminal

>>21847022
I think they make pretty good zinfandel thoughbeit. Also their champagne knockoffs can be alright.

>>21847031
I’ve had some decent natty wines out of socal. They also do deranged shit down there like cofermenting riesling with carignan and other such godless abominations that are kind of fun from an unhinged autism standpoint

>>21847043
I only had one natty wine from california and it was branded "native" and the label was some anglo settlers, the wine as decent but the humor kind of rubbed me the wrong way so I just get my natty wine from poortugal and former eastern bloc nations

>>21847022
>>21847031
And their fruit bomb or overly sweet bdx blends

got some stank from languedoc

>>21846898
ahh cmon santa rita hills makes some good pinot noir

Sancerre is... le back?

>>21847569
Gross.
>>21847312
It's called soul.

>>21848385
Is that they’re calling Brett these days?

Having some Czech producer with some blue slime on the label

Cremant de Jura

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>>21849455
du*
Banger

>>21849779
omelette du fromage

Fleurie
>>21849779
>>21849455
Haven't seen any Jura around me. But want to try

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I can't enjoy red wine because I feel like I drank a cup of gasoline afterwards. I hardly sleep and I can feel my heartbeat in my skull. A pity, I like red wine.

>>21849804
>Local shop got a couple Jura reds
>They're fifty fucking dollars
I can get a Fixin or a Crozes-Hermitage for that price that I know will be amazing, I'm not dropping that much on a mediocre Poulsard

>>21849871
Yeah I whiffed on my last Savignin

>>21849839
Stop drinking mags of Bdx.

>>21849871
jura has the same problem that beajolais has. it was, at one point, surprisingly good wine for the price. then memesters and influensters happened and prices overshot what the wines are worth paying for, but everyone just pretends to like what the algorithm tells them to like

>>21850052
I like Jura but don’t like Beaujolais

So I went and bought J. Lassalle Preference and I think I understand the champagne hype. A lot of apple, some bread, hint of floral, bit of minerality. Acidity was mouth watering but not bracing (I’ve had a lot of lemon juice whites lately). Mouthfeel was almost creamy due to the carbonation. I poured it back and forth from a flute to a regular glass and I think it tasted better from the flute. I don’t think it was confirmation bias placebo because I was expecting to enjoy the regular glass more; I think it is because the flute concentrated the aroma more. Also I expected to enjoy it more at warmer temperatures (since I lean warmer for most whites) but at 55 or so it became way too round, 48 was much nicer. So I kneel to the flute, I kneel to the recommended serving temperature. I don’t think I’m going to become a champagne-head. It was good, and I’m sure if I dropped more money it could be better, but at those prices I’m sticking with burgundy

how'd you get into wine? all i really like are cab savs, syrahs, madeira, and some grigio, mostly for cooking. i can't really discern differences but I usually only buy in the 10-20 buck range anyway, except for the madeira

>>21850165
I understand your point but I lol'd at this imagining some zoomer thinking champagne is a new fad that started with tiktok (zoomers think everything popular is because of tiktok)

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>>21850169
cali zinfandels and aussie shiraz with meats. when I had my first job I wanted to eat steak every night and drink red wine. eventually outgrew the carnism but I still like zins sometimes. I'm like 75% white wines now. red got boring. probably in part because I eat less red meat.

>>21850170
Where was that implied? Obviously champagne has been popular forever with a big boom in the 1800s and was even a power house in the medieval

>>21850165
Also it was cool that it was 60% pinot meunier since that’s the unique champagne grape and I felt that aided in its character

>>21850179
it's /ck/, we had a thread recently where people were arguing over whether french food was overhyped or overrated

>>21850198
Fair enough I guess I used the word hype. But not in the trendy sense but rather I was referring to the enthusiasm displayed by its cult following (which is a large population at that)

>>21850169
Had a mosel kabinett. Instantly unlocked something in me.

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>>21850052
>but everyone just pretends to like what the algorithm tells them to like
Well I actually like beaujo, fuck you.

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>>21850258
I do too, just had a bottle last week that I enjoyed, at $20. but things have gotten completely stupid. imagine discussing which beaujolais is best for under $50. I know inflation and blah blah blah but not even inflation can justify that. not yet at least.

>>21850268
Just don't get Foillard, the other 3 or Burgaud. Any Cru Beaujo round me is still sub 35.

>>21850169
parents would give us a little wine with dinner, had a nebbiolo for the first time and was just blown away by how different it looked smelled and tasted from every other wine I had before it.

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mandatory

>>21850434
weird, I remember making that image but it's not coming up in the archives, so it seems like I never posted it, did you hack me?

oh, the file hash is different, how did that happen?

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Pinot Nero tonight

>>21850434
>low quality product bad
>higher quality proudct good
uh ya.

what to pair with beef BEERguignon?

>>21850512
the wine you put in the pot
>but I used cheap wine
so buy something better of the same style

>>21850518
i didn't use wine, i used beer instead

2023 Clesi Nero d’Avola Gemeny Vineyard

>>21850701
Holy kino

>>21850434
based ive had that exact nouveau (and it’s the only one I’ve ever had (it was alright))

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>>21850734
Around here, the "good" nouveaus sell out in less than a day so all that's left is the boof

Santenay red for the snow storm

>>21851238
>nouveaus

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>>21851448

>>21851534
Nice wine. Sorry you live in Florida but I'm sure you'll make it out eventually!

>>21851534
>Chardonnay
>Spatlese
>Trocken
wtf did they mean by this? so is it dry? what is a sweet chadonnay?

>>21851550
Spatlese just describes when the fruit is picked. It doesn't say anything about how the fermentation is conducted.

>>21851556
:O

>>21851540
God no, I wouldn't be caught dead in that hell hole.
>>21851550
Spatlese means it was picked later in the growing season, indicating a higher degree of ripeness. Trocken means it's supposed to be dry but iirc it can be up to 8g/L residual sugar and a lot of Germans like to push the upper end of that number so there ends up being a touch of sweetness, hopefully this is pretty damn dry, as Trocken in Pfalz is ~typically~ more dry than your average Trocken label from say Mosel. For better or worse the German wine classification system is ongoing some changes as the previous system is built on degrees of ripeness and that's practically a non-issue for most established German winemaking regions today with climate change.

what >we drinking for this seahawks rams game?

>>21851969
pinot grigio

>>21851969
Langhe Nebb 2023 and fuck the Seahawks

>>21851969
2017 Togni Napa Cab

>>21851969
I don't follow baseball, so I'll probably just drink whatever I'm drinking that day

>>21852071
So more Pinotage?

>>21852140
Maybe I should try that shit again. I'm overdue. I give it another try every 3-4 years and realize it still sucks but maybe it will be different this time. It's like cabernet sauvignon but worse.

>>21852146
thats also what i tell mysel before opening that rhino ass

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>>21838073
>And what about Beaujolais? It still remains one of the most underappreciated wine regions in the world, yet it has one of the highest percentages of old vineyards in the world. The best producers adhere to traditional viticultural methods and organic or biodynamic farming. And the wines are great right out of the barrel and into the bottle. Drink gamay!

>>21852208
oh if thats the criteria i'll just drink primitivo and aglianico, grazie

>>21852209
>aglianico
based

rioja fucking sucks, just drink bourbon if you like this much oak ffs

>>21852250
>he drinks new oak Rioja
silly boy

alto adige pinot grigio

>>21852250
Stick to the traditional producers, Cvne, R Lopez Heredia, Muga, etc. lots of oak bombs otherwise

>>21853568
noted, i like priorat and ribera del duero, maybe my local retail market just sucks with their rioja selection, all new american oak fetishists

>>21853632
traditional producers use new american oak too, if you're just getting on board with the "oak bad" bandwagon from 2013 you may want to look at other regions

>>21853638
i'm not committed to that opinion i'm just tired of paying for unblanced wines. rioja just seems cheap for a reason and every time i come back to it, I'm reminded why I neglect the region and it's style of winemaking, at least for their reds.

2015 valpolicella ripasso superiore

>>21853797
it's fucking glorious wtf why did nobody tell me about this

Riesling Dundeer Trocken from Weingut Herman Wiemer in the Fingerseen wine region

>>21853904
Should have asked me. I've been drinking valpol ripassos for years, and thankfully nebs became trendy so their price skyrocketed while Venetian wines that aren't amarones stayed somewhat constant

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Will have some boulette d'Avesnes with the gewurztraminer from lidl. Not overpriced but still good times.

I just found out abiut wine hunting? Is that a thing? I have now bought two different brand at two different and then went to two other stores and bought those same exact brand but they were completely different. Did y'all know about this? This is completely duxking insane. Apparently its all about shelf life. Circumstantial aging. If youre notnin on this you're fucking up big time. Especially in a big city? Oh you have screwed the pooch.

>>21854335
Provenance is important

thoughts on Gruet? rather good QPR for a new mexico sparkler

>>21853990
wtf is fingerseen?

>>21855151
Would like to try but I've never seen it available

>>21854854
That would be for me to resell it. So apparently it's not very common butnit does exist. And they call it "library stock." And apparently more commonly refer to it as chasing rather than hunting but whichever. But this is definitely it because they talk about what I did. Particularly and aggressively targeting mom and pop stores that inadvertently improved their wine bottles through circumstantial aging. But it's not just mom and pop stores. It works all over. I just hit the jackpot at Spec's and thats when it dawned on me. And that in a big city like this I could be sitting on a goldmine.

*or I guess technically what I'm looking for is most commonly and simply called "aged on the shelf" bottles but then hypothetically for example if I resold them then they'd often be referred to as "library stock." But y'all gotta get on this people. Y'all are fuckin up if y'all aren't doing this.

my favorite wines are furmint and tokaji
what does this say about me?

>>21855581
you have to be careful with bottles aged on a shelf, especially in retail locations. They're often exposed to light, standing upright for too long where the wine isn't kept in contact with the cork, no temp or humidity control. library releases are when a winery rereleases an old vintage by putting them in a new bottle with a new label and new cork.

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>>21855992
you are either hungarian, or your entire friend group looks like the people in this image

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Worth 45 Burgers?

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>>21856255
bro have you read nothing itt, even the bojo meat riders won't pay north of 30

>>21854233
basé mon pédé

>>21855151
that's about all there is to say about it. "wow it's wine from new mexico" followed by "hey this ain't bad considering it was $15"

*ahem*
volcano wine > mountain wine > coastal wine > desert wine > swamp wine

>>21856287
But Reddit said it's good

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>>21856487
library wine grown by the avout in saunt edhaur's concent > all of your saecular trash

What pairs with Indian food?

>>21856702
Beer. There's a reason Danny Meyer had a custom beer made for his fancy Indian joint and not a custom wine.

Wine pairing with salmon?

>>21856828
(Le) Montrachet
Or any other white burg

>>21856845
>white burg
Chablis doesn't seem right for salmon for some reason to me

>>21856851
Enjoy your crappy Sancerre instead then

>>21856828
I like Pinot. Not very inventive but it *just works*.

>>21856702
Northern Etna, Lambrusco

>>21856828
Ploussard, pelaverga, ciliegiolo, Provence rose, trebbiano, godello, friulano.

>>21857206
Do you mean Pinot Meunier or Pinot Gris?

I'm about to try Dolly Parton chardonnay

Oh I don't know man that's pretty interesting. I think I'm gettin ready to get wasted off Dolly Parton wine.

I need a steak wine, I’m having steak tonight.

>>21857979
What cut?

>>21857998
Picanha, I dry-brined it overnight

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>>21858000
I think you should respect what the digits are telling you

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Trash or treasure? Time to see if these bojo fanboys know what they’re talking about.

>>21858213
how much?

>>21858213
>Decade old Moulin a vent
Ya sounds like itll based

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>>21858222
19.99
>>21858233
ya it's pretty good ngl, kinda feels weird soyjacking bojoboys but for under $20 the quality is undeniable

>>21858250
Beaujo is /vin/'s favorite for a reason

>>21855152
Finger = the german word for finger
See = the german word for lake
Seen = the plural of the german word for lake

>>21858260
Wrong. It’s barbera.

>>21858250
KNEEL

>>21858582
no im still going to soyjak bojo posters

>>21858404
Barbera is the Gamay of Italy/Piedmont.
So no problem with that.

and now we know

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>>21858895
Cause Mosel is die Bomb.
Fuck you.

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>>21858919
SAAR (USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST)

>>21858931
Mogged by Ruwer and Mosel Yeh

>>21858651
>likes bojo
>performatively admonishes its fans
you’re in the closet lmfao

Is there a white equivalent of petit sirah?

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>>21859192
Petit sirah is already the white people equivalent of petit sirah, they literally sell it at piggly wiggly and hy-vee

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Chianti Classico Riserva, duck legs in canellini and tangzhong focaccia

>>21859828
Wtf are you literally me

>>21859965
Maybe, are we talking in a multiverse kind of way?

Lodi Assyrtiko

>>21859828
>Chianti
Cringe. Sounds tasty though

>>21860016
what's wrong with chianti?

>>21860038
It's the Bojo of Tuscany

SLO Coast Pinot Noir with Duck confit, rocket, tomato, cucumber.

why wine taste bad?

>>21860098
is it from australia?

>>21860059
obsessed

>>21860111
could also be american

>>21860038
>>21860016
It was my first bottle of chianti in years, I was trying to rizz up this female young enough to be my daughter, and she expressed a disdain for white wines and a preference for chianti, which I assume is an opinion she picked up from a male (perhaps her actual father) because females are usually comfortable being perceived as liking white wines on their own, but males often have a great deal of gender anxiety over the color of the wine in their glass. It's a funny thing.

Anyway it made me realize I hadn't had chianti in forever and I wondered why. It's really a fine casual drinking wine, user friendly, just doesn't have any cachet for some reason. Might try a few more to get to know it again.

>>21860752
>Needed a bottle to rizz
>Gets Chianti Classico (Riserva)

>>21861127
I must have mis-explained, the chianti was something I had by myself. I was just explaining how it came about that I was trying chianti, which I completely forgot existed. It's like one of those recipe blogs where there's a whole paragraph on your life story before it gets to the recipe itself.

>>21861127
Really young women don't know shit about wine, it's probably fine that he bought boomer juice.

>>21861340
When's the last time you had some? I usually think of high extraction, high oak, high alcohol, high sugar, high everything red wines when I think "boomer juice". It doesn't fit that description. Well maybe some of it is, this wasn't. In fact I think most boomers wouldn't consider it a very good wine.

>>21861578
I'm not sure if I've ever had Chianti Classico Riserva but I know that it's boomers that buy it.

Riservas aren't even available at most non-boomer wine shops.

>>21861614
I don't think I've ever seen a general-purpose wine shop that didn't have ruffino riserva ducale, maybe we have different definitions of "boomer wine shops", to me that means mostly napa cabs, super tuscans, southern ontario ice wines, and maybe a token penfolds grange or something

Anyway it's barbera tonight, of the alba variety

>>21861679
for me, Granacha

>>21861679
>ruffino riserva ducale
Never see that in shops, but isn't that the wine that's always in the Sopranos?

I agree that Italoboomer wines are further from the classic boomer profile but it's all relative.

>>21861768
Are you sure? Were you looking for it? Lot of bottles for sale. Might be easy to miss. Where do you live? They even have it at midrange grocery stores out west. Here in the east it's in most neighborhood wine shops.

I haven't had it in quite a long time because of reasons, but you know how there are certain drinks you associate with certain people. So I notice it whether I like it or not, and I can assure you, it's inescapable. At least in the united states.

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Gonna have Vouvray

Mencia from Lodi

>>21863182
That's a thing?

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>>21863183
yes, this is fun, prob at the end of its driking window tho

Traminette with sliced beef flap in gochujang glaze, holland red chiles

>>21862404
Yeah I'm sure. No I haven't been looking for it. I live in Melbourne.

The reason why I think it's boomer is that I only ever see boomers talk about Chianti Riserva wines online. Younger people tend to prefer fresher examples of Chianti from what I've seen.

>>21863388
Yeah after 2 glasses of this stuff I see why it's not popular. It's not bad it's just, about what you'd expect of a grape made by crossbreading gewurztraminer with an obscure experimental grape known mainly for its ability to survive in extreme climates

>>21863443
Maybe there aren't enough italians in melbourne, what can I say. I've never heard anyone discuss chianti online at all, but I don't really do much wine internetting other than occasional 5 minute skims of /r/wine/ and a couple of youtubers, but I see it everywhere

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Sunday auction winnings :)

>>21863460
what site is this?
I wonder how that motepulciano will taste with that age.

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>>21863478
the site is winebid. I've had montepulciano d'abruzzo with 10+ years of age on it, was outstanding. never had anything with close to 20

>>21863460
Went to Tenuta delle Terre Nere last year and was really impressed by their wines. Wasn't terribly impressed that I had to pay to taste as an industry person but I guess I went at a bad time.

Never tried Vasse Felix but I've been wanting to try more Margaret River wines.

>had to pay to taste as an industry person
based

xtakolina time

>>21863487
Montepuliciano d'abruzzo is the best. Maybe I should try to seek one with some age.

drinking my favorite portugese wine, tortuga or some shit

>>21863453
We actually have a lot of Italian immigration here. I would say that we have a higher proportion of Italians than most of the major cities in the US.

I think Chianti in general is fairly unfashionable, which is why you probably don't see it much online. On top of that I think Chianti Riservas are even more unpopular than regular Chianti.

>>21865447
It's definitely unfashionable among the younger crowds, assuming they know it exists in the first place, but it was popular enough among previous generations that it got a mention in a well known movie. Furthermore, older people generally buy more alcohol than younger people. So "zoomers don't think it's cool" doesn't seem plausible as an explanation for why you never see it there, and I see it everywhere here. Maybe it's a distributor thing. Smaller country so availability is determined by a handful of influential people.

Got my WSET 3 exams on monday and feel pretty good about it apart from wine pairings with food.

Like I am very confident I'll do very well on the other parts but holy fuck my lack of food knowledge might actually fuck me and set me back 5k.

Really demoralised rn and don't even know how I'll be able to actually learn pairings for dishes I've never even heard of.

Any advice?

>>21865893
If they give you a French wine to ID, make sure to say "ahhhh, the French"

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>>21865893
No advice. But good luck Anon.
Hope you get to celebrate with some Krug after you pass!

>>21865680
In general we have a more developed wine market than the US actually.

The interesting thing about the US is that even at shops that stock good wine you'll see boomershite like Caymus because there seems to be an expectation that boomer retards are catered to.

In Australia on the other hand there are plenty of wine shops that stock 100% independent producers and don't have to pander. As an extension of this they also don't have to stock very unfashionable wines like Chianti Riservas.

>>21865893
The wine paring with food is a very small aspect of the syllabus, so don't worry about it too much. You'll likely only get MCQs on it and they're not going to ask you for pairings for specific dishes. They only ask you questions like 'what does high acidity in wine increase perceptions of in food?'.

Read the part of the WSET3 specification that specifies what study areas are asked about in each question. There's a mark breakdown too so you can see what you should be focused on to win the most marks.

If this is the only thing you're stressing over you'll be fine.

t. WSET3 distinction student

>>21865893
get drunk and eat foie gras

>>21867208
only a fucking aussie would say chianti riserva is unfashionable

>>21867232
Wine pairing for Foie Gras?

>>21867300
a citation for animal cruelty

>>21867355
retard

>>21867265
It's either a totally different world in Australia (including the described state of aussie wine which is like the exact inverse of how it looks from the outside), or, Australia is how it seems and anon just lives in a "wine guy" bubble and has a warped idea of the wine market in general. I suspect the latter given the description of shops that are blissfully free of "boomer wines". That would suggest "boomer wines" are in fact somewhat popular even in Australia he just avoids those kinds of places like the plague and can thus pretend they don't exist.

>>21867355
>No not my heckin Duckerino!
Stop eating chickens and eggs bro they treat them like shit too.

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White Burgundy time bitches

>>21867928
Santenay keeps popping up in these threads lately, is this a sign of something?

>>21867928
Yummy.
Never been disappointed in white Santenay if the price is right
>>21868106
It's a popular decent value AOC from Burg.

>>21868146
>popular
I rarely never see it in stores. Maybe 1 in 5 stores will have a santenay on the shelf at best.