Wine

[Jeanette]

ZINFANDEL RED - MONTEREY BAY is a nice Zin

Jx

 

[CliveMA]

I am partial to Spain's Barbadillo Pedro Ximenez Sherry (I call it Port). Lush raisin flavours, richly sweet.

Junmai Sake, too. Perfect with all Asian food. (My wife is Malaysian and we eat Asian food every day). I like Sake both hot and cold (Yes, even at the same time!) and prefer Junmai style.

Canadian Ice Wine. Best served at Niagara Falls. Very hard to get in Australia.

Various Dessert wines although I don't have them for dessert but rather for any time! These are my Australian substitutes for Ice Wine.

Oh and someone pass the chocolate, preferably Cadbury's Jamaica Rum dark chocolate.

 

[Tenor Viol]

The Pedro Ximenez is very sweet in the manner of a dessert wine. Eiswein is in general difficult to find due to it being both rare (due to how it's made) and inevitably expensive. Something like a half-bottle of German or Austrian eiswein will be at least £30 in the UK.

German trockenbeerenauslese aka TBA is my preferred dessert wine, but it's very expensive, so I usually opt for the much cheaper Aussie ones, some of which are very good.

 

[randulo]

Have any of you had Grüner Veltliner? It's very nice with Asian food. Occasionally, I'll see it at an affordable price in the supermarket.

Grüner Veltliner | Austrian Wine

Austria's most sigificant white wine variety is Grüner Veltliner, which most probably derives from a crossing with Traminer.

www.austrianwine.com

An article by Jancis Robinson explains it better:

Grüner Veltliner | JancisRobinson.com

Until the 1990s very few wine lovers outside Austria had even heard of Grüner Veltliner. Today, no self-respecting restaurant wine list, whether in New York or Hong Kong, can afford to be without at least one example of this, Austria's signature white wine grape. I would submit that this is...

www.jancisrobinson.com

 

[Nikki]

It’s belated but still:

 

[Jeanette]

Thank you @SaxyNikki I needed that today

Jx

 

[Tenor Viol]

I toured three wineries on my recent trip to Waiheke Island in New Zealand. It was interesting that one vineyard would grow so many varieties of grape. Mudbrick for example has Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Petit Verdot, Merlot, Tempranillo, and Cabernet Franc for its reds, and Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, and Viognier for white.

I found I enjoyed the Pinot Gris wines a lot.

 

[Jeanette]

A nice full bodied Gavi on offer in Waitrose.

Jx

 

[Pete Thomas]

I thought for a minute you wrote "a nice full bodied Gavin on offer in waitrose"

 

[Jeanette]

I thought for a minute you wrote "a nice full bodied Gavin on offer in waitrose"

In my dreams

Jx

 

[Jimmymack]

I reckon the English Chapel Down wines, white red or pink, can't be beat, especially the Bacchus and especially when it's on offer.

 

[John Setchell]

I reckon the English Chapel Down wines, white red or pink, can't be beat, especially the Bacchus and especially when it's on offer.

Bacchus is a bit of a “Marmite” grape in my experience. People either love it or hate it.
Just lately I’ve been devouring Sicilian Negro Oro white, which is made by the Appassimento method of drying some of the grapes - much like the Amarone reds but much cheaper.
Cheers!

 

[Jimmymack]

Sounds interesting, where are you getting it from?

 

[John Setchell]

Sounds interesting, where are you getting it from?

Majestic, UK.

 

[LostCircuits]

Vernaccia di San Gimignano

 

[DavidUK]

When I was younger, around 22, my father, a rather snobbish wine merchant, asked me to blind guess a wine during a visit to his for Sunday lunch. I'll always remember the look of shock when I sipped and immediately said "Torres Gran Coronas Black Label 1973." If, like me, you'd tasted it once you'd also have sought to ensure you always remembered what it was. Delicious.

 

[John Setchell]

When I was younger, around 22, my father, a rather snobbish wine merchant, asked me to blind guess a wine during a visit to his for Sunday lunch. I'll always remember the look of shock when I sipped and immediately said "Torres Gran Coronas Black Label 1973." If, like me, you'd tasted it once you'd also have sought to ensure you always remembered what it was. Delicious.

Yep - Torres do some lovely stuff.

 

[TootSweet]

Nice wine made in my region.