Favorite Bottle of Wine

[PeppyGPhiB]

Recommending wines is tough, because only the ones with large distribution will be available all over the country. Most wines are regional.

These days, almost all the wine I drink is from Washington. With about 600 wineries in this state now, there's not even enough time to get around to all of them. Chateau Ste. Michelle is our biggest and oldest winery, but we have many that produce 90+ points wines.

My "go-to" wines right now are the Ethos Merlot by Chateau Ste. Michelle and any red wine by K Vintners/Magnificent Wine Company (particularlly the K Syrah and House Wine). I also like Rhone (French) wines, because they feature a lot of Grenache, which is one of my favorite varietals right now.

I don't like sweet wines, so I'm not a good judge of those.

[Animate]

I don't drink wine often when I do I have only 2 real options. If I'm at the wine bar, which is one of 2 places that sell the one wine I really like, I drink a red called Cagnina di Romagna.

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I love it! Sweet red wine if that is your taste. If I'm going white I usually go with a Moscato.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Recommending wines is tough, because only the ones with large distribution will be available all over the country. Most wines are regional.

These days, almost all the wine I drink is from Washington. With about 600 wineries in this state now, there's not even enough time to get around to all of them. Chateau Ste. Michelle is our biggest and oldest winery, but we have many that produce 90+ points wines.

My "go-to" wines right now are the Ethos Merlot by Chateau Ste. Michelle and any red wine by K Vintners/Magnificent Wine Company (particularlly the K Syrah and House Wine). I also like Rhone (French) wines, because they feature a lot of Grenache, which is one of my favorite varietals right now.

I don't like sweet wines, so I'm not a good judge of those.

Chateau Ste. Michelle puts out a good product. I'm a huge fan of Cote du Rhone and Cote Rotie Wines. My husband loves Burgundy...I'm not a fan. Just taste watered down to me since I really like robust, California wines. He says I'm a Philestine!

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Recommending wines is tough, because only the ones with large distribution will be available all over the country. Most wines are regional.

These days, almost all the wine I drink is from Washington. With about 600 wineries in this state now, there's not even enough time to get around to all of them. Chateau Ste. Michelle is our biggest and oldest winery, but we have many that produce 90+ points wines.

My "go-to" wines right now are the Ethos Merlot by Chateau Ste. Michelle and any red wine by K Vintners/Magnificent Wine Company (particularlly the K Syrah and House Wine). I also like Rhone (French) wines, because they feature a lot of Grenache, which is one of my favorite varietals right now.

I don't like sweet wines, so I'm not a good judge of those.

I've heard good things about Washington State's wineries.

Most years, I go on a wine tour of the wineries of Long Island. So much fun!

[AOII Angel]

Oregon State Pinots are great, too. Argyle makes a great wine.

I forgot a whole class of wines that I love- Chilean and Argentinian wines! Malbec is fabulous. My chairman from residency is Argentinian and introduced me to Malbec about 8 years ago. There are tons of really good bottles to choose from. There are a couple varietals from Chile that I don't know the name of, but I love the winery called Montes. They routinely put out a good product. Purple Angel is my favorite.

Tempranillo and Jumilla are also nice varietals from Spain and South America that are fairly cheap but very good.