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12-12-2010, 09:40 AM
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Yes, I work in a restaurant and have to know how all our wines taste (no complaining there!) so we have a wine tasting every now and then
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What? That is awesome! Talk about perks.
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12-12-2010, 10:47 AM
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There is an excellent wine bar near where I live, and their wine tastings are great.
The traminette, reisling, and a spicey sangria (with lots of cut citrus in it) are my summer favorites. Sat in the wine tasting garden of Heinemans winery on PutinBay just this past summer and polished off a bottle of traminette, which was new to me. Very floral, but I liked it. Winter wines I'm partial to a petite sirach, shiraz, and any cab.
My mom and step-dad make their own wines. They haven't bottled any from this year yet, but they have carboys of reisling, delaware, pink catawba, table red (medium bodied), pear, and concord. Hopefully they'll bottle sometime soon.
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12-12-2010, 11:16 AM
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thanks everyone! $30-$40 bottle is probably what i will spend for friends and alot cheaper for my drunken aunts as they don't care what the price is. i will check out our local grocery store tonight first. i know that tom thumb has a huge selection.
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12-12-2010, 11:12 AM
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I'm a big fan of Pinot Gris or its Italian cousin, Pinot Grigio.
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12-12-2010, 03:18 PM
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I think Boones Farm is a rite of passage for any/everyone!
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12-12-2010, 03:26 PM
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I think Boones Farm is a rite of passage for any/everyone!
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What about 2 Buck Chuck? Talk about a hangover!
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12-13-2010, 01:34 PM
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What about 2 Buck Chuck? Talk about a hangover!
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I actually like the Nouveau. 
My favorites are Graham Beck Pinno, Carlo Rossi Paisano, and Vino Vherdi. I like some of the Carolina wines, but the tend to be too sweet for me. Yes, I drink cheap wine, but I also don't drink very often anymore.
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12-12-2010, 03:29 PM
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I think Boones Farm is a rite of passage for any/everyone!
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This was the preferred underage drinking/college wine when my mom was in school.
College wine of choice in my time = Arbor Mist. lol.
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12-12-2010, 03:38 PM
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This was the preferred underage drinking/college wine when my mom was in school.
College wine of choice in my time = Arbor Mist. lol.
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I wont even lie, I thouroughly enjoy me some arbor mist at times. By the pool on a hot day is just fine 
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12-12-2010, 07:42 PM
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This was the preferred underage drinking/college wine when my mom was in school.
College wine of choice in my time = Arbor Mist. lol.
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oh, so no love for Sutter Home?
I like riesling too. I'm not much of a red drinker, usually a fruitier one. I typically drink red for sangria.
I usually buy Yellowtail, but that's not an expert purchase.
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12-12-2010, 09:44 PM
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oh, so no love for Sutter Home?
I like riesling too. I'm not much of a red drinker, usually a fruitier one. I typically drink red for sangria.
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When I lived in California my roommates and I would get hammered on Sutter Home on summer nights on the porch, and -wait for it- Sutter Home White Zinfandel...
I also really like Hamilton Russel wines, they're from South Africa and their Cab is very refined. That's the wine I give to my graduating friends.
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12-12-2010, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
This was the preferred underage drinking/college wine when my mom was in school.
College wine of choice in my time = Arbor Mist. lol.
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I'm in your time basically and I like both. My roommate just bought me two bottles of Arbor Mist for Christmas and 1.5 left that people have given me just because they know it's my thing.
Seriously, I'm that girl that will just bring her own bottle and drink it all night. Oh well. 
BUT I also appreciate real wine too (hospitality student -I'm slated for a for-credit wine appreciation class next fall) except that I'm in college and can't afford to spend money on expensive alcohol *unfortunately*
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12-12-2010, 07:30 PM
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Menage a trois red wine is very good in my opinion and only $10 I think
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12-12-2010, 11:02 PM
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Fish Eye
Barefoot
The Hundred Shiraz
all reasonably if not under-priced. a lot of aussie wines are good and inexpensive.
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12-13-2010, 03:57 AM
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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.
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