Comments on: Duncan’s Subjective, Opinionated, Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Wine https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/ My little corner of the web Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5892 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:20:30 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5892 In reply to hartree.

And y’know what? If it works for you, then it’s good!

Uh, just don’t ask me to share it with you 😉

]]> By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5891 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:19:45 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5891 In reply to aureth.

I’m still vastly amused that there’s a winery in Grayslake (albeit out of an office park). But I’m definitely all about local wines; there’s a pear wine made by a winery downstate that I buy whenever I see it at Sam’s Wine. It’s a really excellent $7 bottle of wine!

]]> By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5890 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:17:31 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5890 In reply to danruk.

Seriously? Probably a good French cabernet. The full body and strong fruit notes will stand up well to the greasiness of the burger 🙂

]]> By: danruk https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5889 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:19:16 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5889 *steps up to the local winery expert*

“hello, I’ma bout to go dine on a double quarter cheeseburger combo from McDonalds….

Can you recommend a good wine to go with that?”

]]> By: cheetor https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5888 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:47:12 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5888 Lucjky me i suppose
I live in New Zealand, so we get cheap NZ and auzzie wines over here 😀

personaly, thres nothing quite like a dish of medium-rare venison (shot by me ofcourse) witha a nice Wolf Blass Barossa Shiraz (ozzie wine)

Damm
now i’m hungry!

]]> By: aureth https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5887 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:04:11 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5887 In reply to aureth.

If I find myself in an Italian restaurant, however, I usually go for a Chianti or Chianti Classico. Mmmmm. 🙂

]]> By: aureth https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5886 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:01:30 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5886 Let me just add that Midwestern states are in the process of experiencing a wine renaissance. While you can’t get a cabernet savignon or merlot grape to grow in our harsh climates, there are a number of French-American hybrid grapes that do very well and make excellent wine. I know that both Illinois and Iowa have very aggressively expanding wine industries; there are something like six or seven wineries within a short driving distance of me.

Personally, for a ten dollar bottle of wine, I’d put my local wineries up against any similarly priced wine out of California. High quality, local products, and I can go poke around in the fermenters and talk to the wine maker when I feel like it. 🙂

]]> By: hartree https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5885 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:34:33 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5885 I’m such a peasant that I’d rather drink Boones Farm Strawberry Hill or Yago Sangria than even 2 Buck Chuck.

And then there’s MD 20/20. There’s a point at which even I draw the line of revulsion. 😉

]]> By: skorzy https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/09/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5884 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:13:20 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/duncans-subjective-opinionated-simplified-beginners-guide-to-wine/#comment-5884 Well said!

I’m continually surprised at how tasty the “inexpensive” Trader Joe wines are. Excellent table wine. I’ve likewise had “expensive” ($80/bottle!!) wines that left me shrugging.

Wine snobbery continually amazes me. Mass delusion comes in all kinds of different flavors and the emperor is actually naked!!!

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