The best wine you have ever had?!
The best wine you have ever had?
i am not a wine snob,and im not rich so i cant afford to drink the wine that i am about to describe very often.
i was on holiday with my dad in the south of france,we stayed in a really nice hotel in cannes for one night(we camped after that!!)
that night in the hotel,we had the most amazing dinner and a bottle of wine that i will not be able to taste ever again unless i win the lottery,it was like something from heaven,every taste and flavour in the world seemed to be contained within each mouthful,and the smell was almost narcotic.it was a strange amber colour,almost like honey, i think it may have been a chateau la tour 1967 but im not sure.
what is the best wine you have ever had????
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For me, it was a 1961 Chateau Petrus. This was a few years back when I was working in the wine industry, and as an appreciation for a huge multi-unit deall, one of the wineries had this sent to me. I have no idea what the cost would be now, but it's the one time I agreed with Robert Parker and the Wine Spectator. It was a 100 point wine as ranked by both, and in the mid 90's when I drank it, the tannins, fruit and oak were all in perfect balance. I haven't had anything close ever since. I might also add that what may have added to that experience was that we opened it when our children came home from the hospital when they were born.
Although Opus, Heitz Vineyards and Silver Oak are great american wines, I still don't think they can compare to a good old Grand Cru Classe Bordeaux.
Kudos on the Romanee Conti La Tache, as someone mentioned before. I've had some great Vosgne Romanee that almost made me swith back to La Domaine Romanee...
And as someone else mentioned, if you cand find a good '97 Chianti, chances are it's amazing and still not priced totally out of the market. One of the best years for a wine region in recent memory.
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sommelier and wine geek
Try Tedeschi, you can only get it online,,,the best!!!
Stags Leap Vineyards have some of the BEST commercially available wines... I have never been anything short of ABSOLUTELY impressed by their stuff... anywhere from $30-$100 on average and it's better than some of the $500 and above bottles of wine i've had...
a chilean red from asda, really cheap n nice, worse retsina in greese, avoid at all costs, stinking hangover n babbleing all nite!
Silver Oak Cabernet
I don't usually drink red wine but it was the only bottle left in the cupboard!!! it was called Borr Forras a Hungarian wine, I have no idea where it came from - probably from a raffle prize or an end of term prezzie! It was absolutely gorgeous, fruity, light and very refreshing!!
Not sure where you could get it though, I've looked on internet but can't find it anywhere! Boo hoo, so I would recommend Black Tower or Martini Asti which are available in most stores, are are equally as nice!!
You had Sauternes--probably Chateau D'Yquem. It practically is a narcotic and you're right, it's not cheap. Count yourself lucky. If you had a 1961 or other classic vintage, it costs thousands of dollars.
I was fortunate enough to have a glass of 1983 Chateau De Malle (also Sauternes) that was very good. The best wine I've had was a 1998 Domaine de la Vielle Julienne Reservee with braised short ribs. It was literally like swallowing heaven.
Fortunately, it didn't cost me a fortune. I have some bottles in my cellar that will probably be better when they are ready.
I'm no wine snob or expert either and I'm sure there are much better wines than this, but the best Ive ever tasted is a Red Spanish wine called Bodegas Navarro Lopez - Gran Reserva 1996, it may have been the meal i was having it with but it tasted just perfect, and i loved every sip !.
I say the best is and not was, is because Ive still got a bottle left, a friend sent me a mixed case of red wine for my birthday one year and there was two bottles of that in the case, and for some reason i decided to save the second bottle, and its starring me in the face saying drink me LOL, maybe one day ?? :-)
Believe it or not you can find an inexpensive bottle of Bordeaux which is what you had, In a really good liquor store. Have the clerk show you different choses around your price range. Wine does not have to be expensive to be good.
Opus One ,from Robert Mondavi Vineyards.
Ruinart champagne from Paris, France. <*-*>
Best White: 1995 Zilliken Saarburger-Rausch Riesling Spatlese (german reisling)
Best Red: 1990 Domaine de la Romanee Conti, La Tache (pinot)
Best Sparkling: 1992 Krug "Clos des Mesnil" (champagne)
alot of close seconds, any wine from comte de vogue, single vineyard cote-roties from rene rostaing or e guigal, white burgundy (Corton Charlegmane, les Clos, Clos de Mouche)
Salon, Kracher TBA's. I could go on for a while
El Nino 1999 - St Julian Winery - Paw Paw, Michigan
Dom Perignon - $150 a bottle. Best champagne around. My husband buys me a bottle every New Years Eve.
French wine
Vampire. It's very good
I am no expert...I started only liking the dessert wines. But since I have graduated and love Pinot Grigio and some Chardonnay. The best Chardonnay I have had is from Napa called Cake Bread...sooo goood. As for Pinot...I find the $10-$20 bottles are just as good as the $40 bottles ;)
Kourtaki Retsina of Attica, Greece
The Chocolate Block 2005, Western Cape, South Africa
Meursault 2003/05 Louis Jadot, Burgundy, France
Chateau d'Aiguilhe 2001/02 C?tes de Castillon, Bordeaux, France
Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1999
Hard to pin it down to one , so i went for a small and odd range from cheap to a little bit more expensive ones
Craggy Range Sauvignon Blanc from Central Hawkes Bay in NZ.
Mind you, I was in Hawkes Bay when I drank it and though it is imported to the UK in small batches - -it is never quite the same. So difficult to rekindle the aura of the time.
I'll just remember it and Kath and Rosemary in my own way.
Aaaaaaahhhhh.....................
I love wines, there are a lot of good ones but, I am sure that the best one, is the one that you taste with somebody special.
Wine and companion can make an unforgettable moment, even if you can try the same good wine again it will not taste the same, because wine is alive.
That's why we have to enjoy each glass, each moment. Salud!!!
Oddly, the best I ever had was a really inexpensive dolcetto. I tried to get the rest of the stock in the local shop, but it was gone, and I couldn't get more from anywhere else, either. I'm sure it was just a fluke, anyway, and the next year's vintage was probably nothing like that one, but it's still a remarkable memory.
twas an italian red i forget the name of............
chianti!
buckfast
you should try them cartons of white wine in Aldi
cheap and good
The best wine I've ever had is the wine I have not tasted yet. I drink wine everyday as a writer, and while I've tasted wines both rich and poor, I find that the part of wine I enjoy most is the anticipation I have before I pull the cork. A new bottle, vintage or style, waiting for me to discover it. If I'm lucky I'm drinking it with the wine maker, who is telling me his or her story. As the cork releases from the bottle, and depending on the wine, the sweet smell of wine begins to diffuse into the air, I am at this moment most happy. Wine for me is the discovery.
The other factor is place. You cannot say that all wines, no matter the bottle, are right at any occasion.The greatest wines I've had have fallen from the 2 dollar bottle of vermouth to the priceless d'yquem. One is perfect for the roof of my house at sunset while the other is great with foie gras. Neither can replace the others talents. Nor should they.
a ginger wine my friends grandad had made himself,hed kept it for 21 years and opened it on a special occasion.wonderful.
Has to be Spatelese from Germany. Alchohol from the lees turned into spirit is also interesting
Well my favourite is Asti Martini...I know it probably comes under the champagne label as its a pop off cork but I love it...it's just under ￡6 so I don't get it all the time but I love it...some shops actually do it for ￡5 and its so mourish lol
The best wine I ever tasted was a Black Cherry wine that I made myself. It was gorgeous.
I made a gallon of the stuff from some morello cherries that I was given.
Needles to say after letting the six bottles mature for a year they didn't last very long.