What does the # of answers I received for these wine questions say about the people of Y!A?!
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 12 answers
Gaja or Giacosa?
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Banfi, Gaja Sugarille, Poggio Antico, Siro Pacenti, or Cerbaiona?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 1 answer
Sassicaia, Solaia, Tignalello, or Ornellaia ?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 1 answer
Richebourg, La Tache, Echezeoux, or Grand Echezoux?
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Batard-, Puligny-, Corton Charlemagne or straight-up Montrachet?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 2 answers
Answers: Arbor Myst or White Zin?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 12 answers
Gaja or Giacosa?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 0 answers
Banfi, Gaja Sugarille, Poggio Antico, Siro Pacenti, or Cerbaiona?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 1 answer
Sassicaia, Solaia, Tignalello, or Ornellaia ?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 1 answer
Richebourg, La Tache, Echezeoux, or Grand Echezoux?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 0 answers
Batard-, Puligny-, Corton Charlemagne or straight-up Montrachet?
In Beer, Wine & Spirits - Asked by MonaLisa Overdrive AM VT wannabe - 2 answers
White Zin (if I must...) - Arbor Mist is not wine.
Giacosa (Bruno) - Traditional over new-world winemaking. (I love Giacosa's Barbaresco Santo Stefano!!!).
Poggio Anitco - Banfi runs a close second. Try the Greppone Mazzi if you ever get a chance..fab.
Tignanello - I recently conducted a tasting af all of these wines from the 1985 vintage...clear winner.
Try the " Nemo" produced by Monsanto or the "Ghiaie della Furba" bu Capezzana in Carmignano. I'm sure you can find them.
La Tache - Richebourg my 2nd, although I prefer the Henri Jayer bottling over the DRC!
In an ideal world, Le Montrachet. Always.
Question for you:
Ruinart, Clicquot or Krug?
I think you are snobby and you think that you are better than everyone else by asking this question. Arbor Mist or White Zinfandel?........I wouldn't call yourself a wine connoisseur if I were you. Why don't you ask: Boones Farm or Malt Liquor?
If you think you are better than everyone else why not ask your questions elsewhere?
You don't mind a drop or two, do you?
i think buzz d is right you are snobby
my favorite wine is cabernet souvignion
That Sommeliers don't hang out here.
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Look...I run a website that covers wineries in the southwest. In just Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona there are more than 200 different wineries. I've probably visited more than 500 in my life because I've been to most of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio ones as well as the southwest ones. Every one of them has like 8-25 different labels. I've tried A LOT of wine. Frankly I am not all that impressed with most of the imported wine. It isn't any better than what they make in the Finger Lakes or California that costs half as much. Try it in blind tastings and you will see that. Groups nearly always pick the domestics out over the pricer imports. Once I figured that out, I stopped buying it.
There is no way that you can honestly expect anyone to remember specific brands to the point where you put three or four on a list they jump out unless that is what they do for a living.
Now Arbor Mist is very very common, and white zin is a style. It is much easier to talk about styles and regions than specific brands. This type of snobbery is a real drag on the wine industry in general and causes many great small wineries to go out of business. It's a real shame because the thing I really like about wine is that it is mostly small wineries and they don't all taste the same.
That you do too much surfing on the Internet and use Wikipedia and Ask.com to try to look smart but end up really looking like an idiot. If you were a sommelier you wouldn't be asking questions in here and would actually have a job and not waste it on line still living at home in your parent's house
I am an oenophile and have become addicted to answers. New wine drinkers are turning to what they feel comfortable to learn about so if we can help great. There does not have to be snobbery in wine drinking, or beer drinking or whiskey drinking. So if I can help I love it, it is exciting to see new people get into wine.
You will tend to get better answers when you provide some details. Listing two or three wines with a question mark isn't really all that interesting. The answerer doesn't feel like they would provide any useful insight, so they don't answer. Try phrasing a question in context, like "I'm having a few people over for some cheese and wine, which of these would you recommend? X, X, or X?"