What is your favorite red wine?

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<p>I enjoy a spatburgunder. That’s a German red, made from the pinot noir grape.</p>

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<p>what red wine you drink has to go with your the strength of your foods.</p>

<p>I don’t think you would want a shiraz would do well with apple pie - A double flame broiled BK would do better.</p>

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<p>I mostly find that I drink a glass after dinner, with cheese and crackers or popcorn…so basically any wine seems to go with that.</p>

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<p>marques-de-caceres-crianza for $10</p>

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<p>Give me a Dundee Hills Pinot Noir any day. (Dundee Hills is a wine-producing region of Oregon.) This web site has a lot of really nice wines. I did a sort by “low to high” for prices and I’d tried and liked the first ten wines. <a href=“SundanceWine”>SundanceWine;

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<p>Like wis75, we also often drink and serve Rosemont Shiraz.</p>

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<p>Agree on the Malbec recommendation. Can get very yummy Argentinian wines, and chilean cabernets too.</p>

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<p>Beaulieu Vineyards Cabernet (Costco)</p>

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<p>I like Riojas. We’ve been enjoying this red lately: Millbrook Hunt Country Red <a href=“http://millbrookwine.com/catalog/huntcountryred-p-40.html[/url]”>http://millbrookwine.com/catalog/huntcountryred-p-40.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Erath Pinot Noir 2008 - not so good :frowning: it feels watery and not as flavorful as some others we’ve tried. For $13 (Costco) we expected much better.</p>

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<p>Just had Francis Coppola Claret last night and it was excellent. Went well with grilled steaks. .</p>

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<p>Coppola’s winery in Napa used to be the old Inglenook winery. Sure has improved!</p>

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<p>I think just about everything I’ve tasted from the Coppola winery has been pretty good. Justin makes a great mid priced cab and Liberty School has a nice cab in the lower price range.</p>

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<p>Have you all seen “Bottle Shock” - it’s on cable right now. Love that movie.</p>

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<p>Just saw Bottle Shock last week–we went to a wine tasting/dinner at a local venue and the featured wines were from Chateau Montelena. It’s the Napa vineyard featured in the movie (although the Chateau Montelena rep said that the film makers played fast and loose with the facts). We watched the movie after the dinner. In addition to the Chardonnay, for which Chateau Montelena became famous, we had a Cabernet, which was really quite good.</p>

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<p>I doubt if very many movies that are about “true stories” are perfectly accurate.</p>

<p>Real life is far more boring than anything Hollywood can produce. Still, as a California resident I had never heard this story before, however many facts were wrong. ;)</p>

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<p>Okay, I made my first tasting of the recommendations. I was at Fred Meyer today, and bought the menage a trois (because it was the only one I could remember the name of without writing it down). And this is good, really good. I managed to get past my embarrassment of buying it (because that young kid at the cash register isn’t exactly reading the name of my wine bottles anyways), and it is delightful. A little tangy, pleasant, very tasty. I can’t wait to try the others!</p>

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<p>The tasting/contest in the story happened in 1976–that’s 34 years ago. So, unless you’re into wine, you probably wouldn’t have heard about it. One of the issues with the movie is that the winemaker who was responsible for the winning chardonnay (Mike Grgich–who moved on and started his own winery–Grgich Hills) isn’t even in the movie version. I read that he received a copy of the script and was critical of it, so I guess the film makers left him out and focused on the struggles of the vineyard owner. I prefer the Grgich chardonnay, but it’s pricey. The Grgich Fume Blanc is cheaper and a very nice white. I’d recommend it.</p>

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<p>some inexpensive merlots I like</p>

<p>Angeline Sonoma</p>

<p>Oak Grove California</p>

<p>Buffalo Grove California</p>

<p>I have had bad luck with inexpensive Pinots. My plan is to wait to get into Pinots till DD has graduated college :)</p>

<p>edit: "Erath Pinot Noir 2008 - not so good it feels watery and not as flavorful as some others we’ve tried. For $13 (Costco) we expected much better. "</p>

<p>This is what I meant. I think for a Pinot, you need to look north of $15. If you know of good Pinots for less, do tell.</p>

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<p>If you can find it anywhere try the Au Bon Climat Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir. Wall Street Journal did a big write up on it. Calling it one of the best pinots under $25.<br>
Sometimes you see it at TJs or Costco</p>