The Wine Thread.

[scumdog]

Chrissy=Bimbo got me onto wine, like a drop now and then, most of it is finer than the sauvignon-plonk (a.k.a. Purple Death) that I mentioned in another thread.
Alan Scott chardonay 2001 is one of my favourites but at a rally anything out of someone elses bota bag will do the trick!!

[750Y]

...maybe white ports if I find them

never heard of white port, must find some myself.

[Motu]

After drinking the home brew back to back with a Villa Maria cab/sav/merlot/shiraz (maybe they should add blackberry nip to the mix) I gotta say I'm impressed,this has got more of everything,it sure isn't bashfull - 'I was a fruit,but went bad an now I'm fulla toxins an poisins that could hurt you' .This is a beer drinkers wine,up front and complex in taste,a dark or red compared to a lager.I'm going to miss it,worse part is I can't get another,once it's gone,it's gone.Like the 40oz bottle of Jim Beam under my desk,it's been there about 3 yrs,waiting for the guy who makes his own spirits and gave me the bottle to try out - I want some more,but he hasn't been back.I'll keep a bottle of supermarket red to use as a comparo against my Dallie wines.

I think you'll only find a white port at a Dallie vineyard,ports were their favorites - maybe a white port is a disguised sherry? Give me time,I'll find out....

[MikeL]

never heard of white port, must find some myself.

Don't bother trying. White port belongs to the era of Cold Duck and Barossa Pearl.

I don't miss them...

[Motu]

Well,I plowed through the Fuller's dry red...nothing special,same as you'd get off the bottom shelf at the supermarket,I guess a $10 wine is a $10 wine.The Mazuran red was a different story,kinda enjoyable that one,just a tad better than the Fuller's...guess a $15 wine is a $15 wine eh? I couldn't help myself after finishing of the Mazuran,and tried a finger of his Rich Port - now this is wierd,it has a light red colour,not that deep red you get in a port,and a very,very strange taste,not your normal port at all.This guy produces a lot of Gold Medal Ports,so I don't think it's a crook one,but it's not like any Port I've ever drunk...and have I ever been drunk on Port! This one requires a second opinion,so this weekend it's coming with me to a friends place...we will embark on disecting this bottle drop by drop.....the game is afoot!

[Yamahamaman]

Well,I plowed through the Fuller's dry red...nothing special,same as you'd get off the bottom shelf at the supermarket,I guess a $10 wine is a $10 wine.

My $21.45 Cardboard Red is surprisingly good. Oh well - 3 litres of cheap plonk, still it has the right effect.

[Motu]

I've been neglecting my wine thread somewhat - but that doesn't mean I've been neglecting the wine,oh no,I've been plowing through it at a steady rate!

Hey,that wierd port wasn't Mazuran,it was the Fullers! Getting a bit fuddled eh? I gave some to my mate and he said ''what the hell is that?!'' Different,but we both enjoyed it.I've been through a couple of bottles of Aussie red,yeah,they were nice - and a couple of bottles of fizzy,..but I don't like fizzy.

Just before Xmas I wuz out,so dropped into a couple of Lincoln rd vineyards on Xmas Eve on my way home - first stop Mothers Cellar - hey,this place is cool,just what you'd expect for a wine cellar....it's under the storeroom,in the cellar like,big barrels everywhere,dark and cozy and a nice lady on the counter,also some sodden old jockey.I check out the list,and sproing,my eyes go to the ports - a white port and a black port....I taste both.Actualy I like the white best,but the decrepid old jockey reckons he's been drinking the All Black Port for 30yrs and says it's the best around.So,I walk out with a bottle of All Black Port from Mothers Cellar.

Just down the road is Collards Winery,so I pull the Pajero in there - an up market store,all glass and brightness after the Cellar,and a nice young chick to serve me.''What do you want to taste? she says - ooooh,hey with wines I'm like with bikes...go into a bike shop and I go to the dirt bikes,on the way out I glance at the sports bikes without even stopping.So I try the port of course...some sea faring name...but a nice port,I'm coming back for some! But leave with their standard red.

Quaffed the red no worries,polished of those Aussie reds...and tonight opened the All Black Port! Ooooh,what a choice drop,that sozzled jockey knows what to drink for sure,for sure.It's so dark that even watered down as I drink it (taught by experts you remember) you can hardly see through it held up to the light,a deep,deep red...black port indeed.I poured myself a larger glass full,at this rate I'll be back for the white port in no time!

[Swoop]

C'mon Motu, time for an update to this thread!!!
Surely there have been a few vino's to reccommend to your avid readers recently.

[Motu]

I'm not in Auckland anymore - I knew I wasn't going to be in Henderson for long....and I thought those old vineyards aren't going to be able to stay there for much longer,so a taste test around the area was in order.If I ever see a small family opperated vineyard in my rides around the Waikato I'll drop in for a sample....but it's back to supermarkets for now.....

[scumdog]

Had a few bottles yesterday - all pretty good but not keen to try the 'fizzy' wine given to us by rellies who knew we were 'wine drinkers'

[kro]

I had a glass of "Lambrusco" yesterday, its a sparkling Red (strange but true), and it was freakin awesome, I loved it. I fear its perhaps in the league of Asti Spumante as far as class factor goes, but hey, if it tastes good, I'm happy to oblige, screw the Grange's of this world :P.

I do prefer Reds, I find white wines all start tasting vinegarish after a while.

[Swoop]

Cool Motu. There are plenty of able bodied others on here that might like to reccommend certain tipples if they happen upon a tasty drop! There certainly is a darn good selection out there at the moment!!!

[Biff]

Paying $30 or $40 for a bottle is for me a convincing demonstration of the law of diminishing returns.

I split the bill with a guy once after we ordered a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 1996 (we we're celebrating!). We paid a little under $300 (US) for it. It was sublime. It had an almost minty taste to it, with a blackcurrant tang, and smelt 'earthy'. Geeeorgeous.

Worth it?
Not a fkin chance.


Crystal champagne on the other hand.......mmmmmmmm.....

[inlinefour]

I like Feijoa wine


But Merlot is my fave

I like any fruit wines, Sentry Hill Winery make a rather nice drop and then there is the boysenberry port

[Highlander]

Quite partial to Red wines, or the odd drop of port. $10-$15 bottle wines are about where we aim.

Got 1/2 shares in a still though so Scotch / Rum and liquers are cheap and in abundant supply.