Like a dream come true....

TehBorken · Nov 12 06 07:23

Wine made specifically to go with ....pizza! Woo hoo!

"[a href="vny!://www.pizzavino.com/"]Pizza Vino Pinot Noir and Pizza Vino Cabernet Sauvignon[/a] were the first offerings from the brand which is produced and bottled by Las Vinas Winery in Lodi, California. These two red wines are produced and blended specifically to be fruit forward, not masked by a strong oak presence, making them a perfect complement to the tomato-based sauces, cheeses and meats found in pizza"

Lise · Nov 12 06 02:08

Wine with pizza. Of course. *head banging on computer keyboard*

weird al · Nov 12 06 02:13

Here's a nice little unassuming wine that goes well with practically anything:

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Gopher · Nov 13 06 11:20

Why are wines so often described as unassuming?

weird al · Nov 13 06 11:31

...not sure, but it might have started here, with James Thurber's cartoon:

Lise · Nov 13 06 11:36

Anyone here drink wine at all? Any favorites?

When it comes to wine, I'm clueless although I did have a crash course in wine tasting. Not that my palate can differentiate a cheap wino from an expensive one but it sure was interesting to sit through the class.

Gopher · Nov 13 06 11:37

A favourite wine? Yes, the seccond.

weird al · Nov 13 06 11:52

Lise wrote:
Anyone here drink wine at all? Any favorites?

When it comes to wine, I'm clueless although I did have a crash course in wine tasting. Not that my palate can differentiate a cheap wino from an expensive one but it sure was interesting to sit through the class.

Here's about 100 wine columns from a guy who knows his stuff:

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Sportsdude · Nov 13 06 02:01

Yellow Tail Merlot from Australia good stuff.

P.C. · Nov 13 06 02:21

Tarapaca......a nice Chilean Merlot. Really smooth and yummy. And one of my absolute faves Piesporter Goldtropfchen......deeee-lish.

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purelife · Nov 13 06 05:06

Is that red or white wine, PC? If red, do you think you could post a picture or a label of that wine? I'm looking for a good, but not too expensive red wine to try these days.

purelife · Nov 13 06 05:17

Would this be what I'd look for? Any wine from Tarapaca?

P.C. · Nov 13 06 05:35

That's it, purelife. It's dry, but not 'pucker your face off', dry. I like it.

We discovered it when I bought hubby a wine storage unit a couple years ago. I filled it with a wine from every different country I could find. It was a lot of fun trying wines we had never tried before and getting away from the same 3 we always fell back on (so to speak) [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/nahrung/c020.gif" border=0]

purelife · Nov 13 06 05:47

Cabernet sauvignon..that's white, right? I so suck at wines.

I get so overwhelmed at the Liquor store trying to figure out which one to get. Often, I go for the plainest looking labels and the mid-priced ones.

weird al · Nov 13 06 05:48

Here's a little Tarapacan history from their website at [A href="vny!://www.tarapaca.cl"]www.tarapaca.cl[/A]:

The detail they go into here is hilarious, at least to my admittedly odd sense of humor:

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