What is the best wine you have tasted?

Boone's Farm, Ripple, Thunderbird, Night Train, Mad Dog 20/20 - they're all about the same.  I switched over to beer when I attained legal drinking age.

 

About the only wine I really remember tasting was some Retsina.  It was actually good, but I like the smell of Pine sap and turpentine.  Took awhile to drink the entire bottle.

 

All wine tastes like shit to me.

On 9/1/2018 at 4:52 AM, Damrongsak said:

Boone's Farm, Ripple, Thunderbird, Night Train, Mad Dog 20/20 - they're all about the same.  I switched over to beer when I attained legal drinking age.

 

About the only wine I really remember tasting was some Retsina.  It was actually good, but I like the smell of Pine sap and turpentine.  Took awhile to drink the entire bottle.

 

I never drank for the taste, but the effect.

I loved thunderbird, but my favorite was Buckfast, huge drink on Scotland, made by English monks.

 

 

joke from Finland;

among the French wines with low alcohol content, my preference is cognac

 

 

On 9/8/2018 at 1:44 PM, melvinmelvin said:

joke from Finland;

among the French wines with low alcohol content, my preference is cognac

 

 

Don't think I ever heard a joke from Finland, despite living there for a while.

10 minutes ago, MrPatrickThai said:

Don't think I ever heard a joke from Finland, despite living there for a while.

they have tons about a chap named Karjalainen, former minister of foreign affairs, never sober

 

That's easy. Booth's Premium Shiraz, a small winery on the southern side of the Warby Range in Victoria. At its peak 1990 to 1997. Couldn't buy it at any retail outlet, was only sold at the cellar door. $15 a bottle, better than anything 10 times the price. I used to buy 2 - 3 dozen every time I visited there. You had to be quick, because it was sold out about 6 weeks after the years' vintage was released.

It was the kind of rich, full-bodied red that insisted another glass was necessary. Cliffy Booth, the winemaker, passed away early 2000's. The secret died with him, because later vintages produced by his family were never the same.

On 9/1/2018 at 5:16 AM, Nyezhov said:

All wine tastes like shit to me.

I guess if your taste is in your  ***e that's what is bound to happen.

On 9/1/2018 at 5:16 AM, Nyezhov said:

All wine tastes like shit to me.

Have you actually tried shit?

3 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Have you actually tried shit?

 

better than its rumour you mean?

 

For the price.........my home-made stuff here.

Red.

Yume 2010 (Yume Montepulciano d Abruzzo DOC).

Nice full body wine.

2 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

they have tons about a chap named Karjalainen, former minister of foreign affairs, never sober

 

Probably the biggest drinking country in the world. They use to laugh when talking about herring.

The alcoholic kind.

 

I don’t find ex-pats living in thailand to have wine in their liquid consumption..

 

Why would a wine and cheese buff move to thailand? Wine makes up 1% of total alcohol consumed by volume...

Mad Dog 20/20,memories of old friends have not seen in 50 years, a smile to my face and a tear to me eye. Thank You  

I remember when just about every household had one of these... back when it was still allowed to be called sherry...

 

 

 

 

In a previous life I was lucky enough to be able to try a lot of top shelf wine and single malts. A vertical tasting of Grange with one of the winemakers, including the '86 & '90 is one I still remember fondly. Five hundred dollars a bottle these days... ?

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

I don’t find ex-pats living in thailand to have wine in their liquid consumption..

 

Why would a wine and cheese buff move to thailand? Wine makes up 1% of total alcohol consumed by volume...

plenty of very good wine available in LoS

 

4 hours ago, wgdanson said:

For the price.........my home-made stuff here.

Nong Pradu? Phitsanulok?

 

maybe should be called Phra Put Ta Chinarat

Free wine tastes the best ?

Chateau d’Yquem

4 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Chateau d’Yquem 

2012?

Probably a pinotage from Germany. Cant remember the name but could drink it like water it was that good . Don't drink red wine here as find it horrible when chilled but some white wine I had when out for dinner wasn't bad but vastly overpriced !

On 9/1/2018 at 4:52 AM, Damrongsak said:

Boone's Farm, Ripple, Thunderbird, Night Train, Mad Dog 20/20 - they're all about the same.  I switched over to beer when I attained legal drinking age.

 

About the only wine I really remember tasting was some Retsina.  It was actually good, but I like the smell of Pine sap and turpentine.  Took awhile to drink the entire bottle.

 

You forget Bali Hai. 

1947 Lafite

1997 Opus One

Robertson's Pinotage from South Africa...........delicious!

In terms of bang-for-the-buck it was some emminently quoffable French red table wine we used to drink in Belgium.

 

It was called "Le Bolleaux" (sp) and came from the local cash and carry. Cost $4.50 Euros for THREE bottles. I used to take it for friends in the UK and tell them it really was the dogs <deleted> ?