ThailandRyan

Make me a reasonable offer Bob and you can have the penthouse condo here in BKK and the Seaside Villa along with the cars and bikes........your a funny man, and as always I like your troll posts. When you decide to use proper English on other OP's you do, but when you want to try and sound like an egg-stainer tank top wearing bar stool sitting drunk you are hilarious.

Are you sure Bob, i mean dollars to donuts your probably far below many, oh unless your a newly minted crypto millionaire, but then there are more than you know of. Live like a miser is how you come of.....so I doubt you have unlimited resources.

Really, you know what your getting in McDonalds here in Thailand, and your bottled beers which have been sitting in the heat for days before being refrigerated at a bar.

PB Khao Yai has some decent enough wines and have been awarded gold medals at tastings in Vienna, of course it is up to you to try and decide if it is good or as some would say a plonk.... Monsoon Valley also has some decent wines as well as GranMonte Vineyard. As always tastes differ between all of us. Are they 91 to 95 grade wines, well no, but they are notable. Reasonable price for you is what 150 Bht for a bottle of Thai wine. I find 600Thb is about average for a decent Thai wine, of course money for me is not the issue, it is the drinkability and sitting with a nice glass in the evening while looking out the windows and listening to some classic jazz.

No i let them sit in the heat at 28 Celsius, to breakdown and become undrinkable. Do you know much about wine refrigerators, or are you just trolling. You are aware that: In most respects, wine refrigerators offer the environment for proper wine storage. They are designed to maintain ideal temperatures specific for storing wine, in the 45 F to 60 F range. Additionally, the design is meant to minimize vibration while holding the wines sideways in a cool, dark environment.

Bob TBH, they want you to buy the food so you can share it with the girls who you are buying lady drinks for and then for the ones whose old partners fall asleep........

The only Pinot's I have are ones I brought back with me on this last trip to the US. When I used to go back and forth every 3 months I would bring in bottles to stock up on. Never had any issues, always carried two bottles in my carry on and then 4 Bottles in my two travel suitcases which were wrapped in bubble wrapped and placed inside of a cold case. The last two years with the Pandemic I pick up the majority of my wine through the Wine Connection. The pinot I like from the US is the cherry-pie-san-pablo-bay-block-pinot-noir

Your opinion, and we all have them, so agree to disagree.

No i meant my personal refrigerated cellar of which I have two 48 bottle ones, one for the whites and Pinots, and the other for the reds. I had two others that I sold off. I really want to install a large one in my house in Hua Hin, in my study. The refrigerated units works well. In the US I have a house with a cellar in the basement which is temperature controlled, of course with living here my sister and her husband who live three houses down partake of the wines there and then restock.

Removing the 800k from the Thai bank is the ultimate goal and being able to place it back into the real world where it can earn more than the paltry sum they have paid me in 4 years.......

Yep, you sprayed it all over the forum...

Shiraz's dominate my cellar, and I drink plenty of Australian wines, Chilean wines, and French wines. My comment was directed at the fact that one needs to go and tour wineries and do some tastings in order to find a wine which is made local that meets their needs and tastes. My wine cellar has many different wineries from around the world which can be bought here. What I find odd is that wines from the US are priced higher than a French Bordeaux here, and Australian wines run between 600 and 900 baht for the brands I purchase Like Peppercorn, or Zontes Footstep Chocolate Factory Shiraz whose 2017 bottling is among the top 4% of wines in the world. Anything from the Mclaren Vale in Australia is decent wine. Two Hands Lily Garden Shiraz is also decent.

Not sure if the Monsoon Valley wines are sold outside of the winery. You can also look for wines from Granmote Vineyards they are sold in wine and beer stores, their Petitite Sirah, and Cabernet are decent. All you can do is look. Not sure about availability in Pattaya, so why do you not ask or better yet take your own trip over to Hua Hin or up to Kao Yai.

Your point is what all Thai wines have these wine faults, try again. Also be a good chap and visit the true wineries where you can take a tour and do a tasting..... I grew up in the Napa Valley, so drinking good wines and doing tours and tastings go along way.

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You believe they are untrained? Most attend schools but are left to perfect there skills outside. A bad haircut looks good in 2 weeks. My GF is a trained stylist and colorist and still has people complain that it does not look exactly like the photo. Everyone's hair is different. Trained at the Paul Mitchell school in SF.

Was on the main news this morning.

You better look at a few of the true vineyards and wineries in Thailand before you start talking your nonsense.

Really, so all Thai wines? You need to get out more.

Neighbor next door to us has had covid 3 times, unvaccinated, Chinese Thai. 1st time hospitalized for almost 3 weeks, second time he was taken by an ambulance and the next day returned with a private nurse, and then just last week his daughter knocked on the door, and told us he had tested positive and would be isolating again. The man is always going to the night-clubs and is somewhat of a playboy. Good thing he works from home running his import export business I guess. He has refused to wear a mask, even though it is mandated by the Juristic committee for wearing in all common areas as well as lifts, the wearing of a mask is posted in all lifts as well as on all floors. The juristic manager has fined him numerous times, he just pays the fine. The same for his smoking, he smokes in the hallway and right under the sign that says no smoking. We stay clear of him. We have had it one time, and it put us down for almost 3 weeks, loss of smell and taste with some other issues after the main symptoms went away. We wear masks in the common areas, and when we are inside businesses, but outside we tend to remove them and put them on as we approach large crowds.

So you believe any wine made in Thailand is no more than vinegar, interesting.

It is not your country to tell the people what to do....

Many places are going cashless. For all my card purchases here I use my Black card or my Amex Gold, no international fees and my banks understand I live here in Thailand. Black card is a Barclay's bank issued card. I am from the US.

It is, it's about a 30 minute drive up into the hills.

Unfortunately not, you pay between 650 and up.....no discount like you could get in the US for a case. They are pretty popular on the weekends and do serve decent food. The views are spectacular during the growing season. Photos from my visit in July..