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"
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Wine with pizza. Of course. *head banging on computer keyboard*
Here's a nice little unassuming wine that goes well with practically anything:
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Why are wines so often described as unassuming?
...not sure, but it might have started here, with James Thurber's cartoon:
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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.
A favourite wine? Yes, the seccond.
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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Yellow Tail Merlot from Australia good stuff.
Tarapaca......a nice Chilean Merlot. Really smooth and yummy. And one of my absolute faves Piesporter Goldtropfchen......deeee-lish.
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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.
Would this be what I'd look for? Any wine from Tarapaca?
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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]
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.
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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[P class=texto_normal align=justify]In 1992, when the Fósforos group - an important Chilean holding engaged in agroindustry, forestry and trade - took control over the winemaking operations of Viña Tarapacá, a decision was made to launch an ambitious development program targeted at international markets, backed by the estate's "Century-Old Tradition" and the prestige it had won in the domestic market.
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Well, the label you posted, wasn't the Merlot....but that's the label of the Tarapaca Wines.
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So, I have to look for the label that says Merlot, Tarapaca, PC?
Yup. Although we don't know a huge amount about wines, one thing we did learn, is that when we liked a particular wine, it was because it went with a particular food. (and vise versa)
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That big spiel didn't tell you much about the wine, did it weird al......lol
How about a sweet fruitty wine, guys? Can someone recommend one? I would love to bring one to a Christmas party this year.
One of the wines I like is a German wine, with a not so German name.....but it's really nice if you want something less dry. It's called Silver Bell and another none German sounding one is Golden Eagle. Both are a little sweeter. Like maybe a 02. Another yummy is Albersweiler Latt Gewurztraminer Auslese. (tastes musch better than it sounds....lol)
Wine turns my guts into a jet propulsion laboratory.
Tremendous farts. (True! Not trolling.)
If I'm at a party or something and I feel one coming on, my impulse is to rush to the bathroom to release the monster, in case it drags a "cortege" along with it... (because once in a blue moon it does!)
I know some people develop blotchy skin or patches of red shortly after consuming wine.
Their skin returns to normal in a few days.
Red wines cause an instant headache in a huge percentage of people who drink them. It's from a chemical called acetaldehyde (sp?) (Instant hangover symptoms)
Mission Hill is a never go wrong winery, its also a good one to tour if you make it up that way (Kelowna). Lots of good wineries in the okanagan valley like red rooster and such.
I would go for the Chiraz or Chardonnay from MH.
Gewurztraminor is a white wine with lychee nuts in it from Mission Hill that my g/f and myself discovered when we went through MH this summer when we went to peach fest in peachland.
if you want a real fruity not-so-winey-wine go for a zinfandel wine
I generally like a good full-bodied red wine, but very often it gives me an instantaneously blocked nose.