What low/medium price wine do you recommend.

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15 hours ago, matchar said:

Funnily enough, I was just in Gourmet Market planning to buy the Riddle Creek Shiraz that was recommended on here.

I hope you like the Italian wine, mainly because I find them a little insipid at the lower price range, whereas the Riddle Creek even at the lower price range is still quite a "bigger" wine – – IMO.

 

 

15 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Red wine in the fridge????

Absolutely no problem putting red wine in the fridge in this country, as I keep all of my bottles in a wine fridge and remove about an hour before I'm due to uncork/open and drink it. I also let it breathe for a while, which can improve the taste no end.

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On 12/6/2024 at 6:27 PM, Tord55 said:

I used to be an avid red wine drinker, but as my wife has stopped drinking I have just a couple of bottles of wine a year, but the last one was fairly cheap and very drinkable. It was the Australia-made Jacob's Creek. It does taste wine, and not alcohol mixed with juice like some cheap ones do, and it leaves no bad taste in the mouth afterwards.

At home (back in Sweden) I usually drink Italian and Spanish wines. 

There was also a mention of Jacobs Creek wine being reduced in price a few posts back, but I can't find it right now.

 

However in Lotus's a few days ago I noticed that Jacobs Creek had been reduced to 445 baht and also that a wine by JJ McWilliams, also from Australia, was now down to 395 baht – – not my normal drinking wines, however many years ago in my youth they were the type of wines that I would buy, not now however, BUT I decided to buy a bottle of each so that I could try them with my Thai spicy dishes and Indian food, because they should be bold enough to counter the taste of those dishes – – I will post when I have tasted them and those folk who are interested may want to try them.

 

On that note, it's amazing how tastes change over the years and with experiences, because when I was in my early 20s I was buying the type of wine mentioned above and also other wines from France, especially Cotes Du Roussillon Villages which I found to be particularly enjoyable.

 

In the late 70s and through to the 80s I was buying Bordeaux Premier cru wines, en primeur (before they were released onto the market) and I bought and tasted a great number of these wines before moving onto the quality Rhône wines like Cote Rotie and Chateauneuf du Papes.

 

I never really got round to the Burgundy wines until later on in my life when I went over to France with a French wine merchant and sampled some absolutely gorgeous burgundies, which proved to be a mistake because that spoilt me for any other Burgundy/Pinot Noir which was on the market, including those from my newly adopted country of New Zealand!

 

Now as I've gotten older and wiser (I hope) I have moved onto the more full-bodied wines like those from Australia, and in particular Appassimento wines from southern Italy, and the Petite Sirah wine from the USA which I have recently discovered here, which I find absolutely delightful.

 

Sorry to ramble on, but it's been a hobby of mine for over 50 years, so I do like to share some of my experiences!!!!

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Back on topic.........what-lowmedium-price-wine-do-you-recommend

 

Sorry about the previous ramble, but I have had chance to taste the Jacob's Creek Merlot and it is a very pleasant easy drinking red wine, with no discernible strong tannins and perhaps a little bit of oak treatment with "oak staves or oak chips", but don't quote me on that!

 

Would I buy it for an everyday wine, based on this one bottle, yes I would as it would complement just about every dish one wished to serve it with. And at 445 baht a bottle it is at the cheaper end of the wine scale here, apart from the "fruit wines".

 

I didn't find any hints of "black fruits" (often mentioned by wine tasters) in it, but a good everyday drinker, all the same.