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What would you recommend? I don't drink a lot of wine so I tend to just buy $14ish bottles of American Pinot Noir or Reislings.
by wavefunction 13y ago
What would you recommend? I don't drink a lot of wine so I tend to just buy $14ish bottles of American Pinot Noir or Reislings.
- masklinn 13y agoBordeaux and Bourgogne (Burgundy) are the big ones[0]. Loire and Alsace are also known for more specific wine types. That doesn't necessarily help much as within each regions exist complex classification systems (e.g. Bordeaux uses Châteaux, essentially winemakers, while Burgundy uses an m:n mapping of domaines (a winemaker) to terroir (a geographical area), there's quite a bit of variation across winemakers (and within one especially on generational shifts) and price is essentially useless a data point. And then you've got to decide whether you want "drink" wine drunk within a few years or "keep" wine which you'll grow over 5, 10, 20 years or more. [0] Bordeaux is bigger, Bourgogne has more controlled designations of origin.
- yawz 13y agoI like certain regions of Bordeaux: Saint-Emilion (it has also sub regions), Pomerol, Fronsac, etc.) I also quite like Bourgogne. Good red wine. If you like white wine you should try Chablis and Macon Village. Alsace has Gewurztraminer, which is definitely sweeter than Riesling. You can try it with spicy dishes, if you like. Also I'm quite fond of Spanish Rioja. I find wine quite expensive in the US but you can find good valued wine, especially if you can afford to store some of them for a few years before enjoying them.