The most quality red wine for dinner

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:27

Who knows the most quality red wine I can drink in a restaurant on Saturday night dinner?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:40

Amarone or Barolo

Harold2555



Joined: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1139

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:51

Top quality choice Bill! It is a little known fact that in the book of the silence of the lambs the wine that accompanied Hannibal's dinner of human liver was Barolo not chianti as in the dumbed down film.



Personally I always recommend it with Venison as it accomp-anies the strong flavours.





Does anyone sell it in TRNC?





Harold

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:53

Well I've just got 3 x 1.5l cartons from Lidl,if you are having dinner at home it is quite palatable and I got change out of 5 euro's,if I start wording my mixes up later then you'll know why

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:53

buckfast or elderado ?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 20:54

Hi Harold yes we do also Bills fav Amarone and Chianti in fact most Italian wines.

paddywack


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Posts: 959

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 22:48

Bull`s Blood.

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 22:56

Merlots my favorites, but most red wine is good...

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
11/03/2011 23:35

blackie apart from Chianti, Merlot is our best seller, next Bardilino, then Cab Sav as I call itxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Blackbird



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Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
12/03/2011 00:38

Yes Lillie Chianti is good ..........and Cab Sav.........

Blackbird



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Message Posted:
12/03/2011 01:14

....although my all time favorite is here...Merlot at it's finest!

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Hoylemiller



Joined: 03/09/2010
Posts: 240

Message Posted:
12/03/2011 07:54

Nothing like a good bottle of Vino Collapso (Merlot of course) to accompany a medium rare Angus beef Rib-eye

done on a charcoal barby...Luxury

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
12/03/2011 08:30

you cant beat a bit of buckie

Lionokan



Joined: 11/03/2011
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
12/03/2011 08:42

Where is Meriot?

BusyBee


Joined: 14/09/2010
Posts: 43

Message Posted:
12/03/2011 22:07

CRICOVA Moldovian wines,you buy from Erdener supermarket or if you want Vintage collection wines dating back to 1960's etc then Call Bee 0533 8655222

Meerkat


Joined: 21/01/2011
Posts: 368

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 01:36

Chateau neuf de pape or in N. Cyprus Antik (red)

bigOz


Joined: 29/09/2010
Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 01:46

Barolo, Chateau Neuf Pape, or or I can strongly recommend YAKUT for Turkish alternative.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 01:51

Mouton Cadet

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 07:37

Everyone of us has different taste for wine, what need to be consider is what we eat and after choose the wine. It's impossible to say one or another so many to choose from.

My personal choice is a good pomerol with red meat and Puligny Montrachet premier cru for white.



Guido







Then again what do i know.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 08:42

Mentioning Yakut in the same sentence as an alternative to Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC... blimey!

I must have tried an off bottle..

As Lilli points out everybody's tastes vary. I don't appreciate over-egged 'New World' wines that taste of every nuance other than grapes... E.g. Too much oak, too much chocolate, too much caramel, too much of this that and every other wine tasting definition. Some of them are so complex I can't think of a foodstuff I'd like to consume with them.. The art of wine-making is about knowing when to stop with the flavours just as much as it is making the wine interesting. I go for outright flavour of grapes.

It's a sad fact that Italy consumes more good wine than it produces making it a net importer of good wine. This has the effect of making good Italian wine prohibitively expensive outside of Italy. It is tough to find a good Chianti, Bardolino or Barolo at a reasonable price. I don't want to pay silly money for wine.

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 09:33

groucho,

I posted that.

I agree with you but the wines above mention are expensive in Italy too. The denominazione controllata for wine garantee the quality and unfortunatelly as u can immagine has tax to be paid for. Consequently the charges get reversed effecting the price greatly.

We have a lots of good wines in Italy at very resonable prices but we do not export those.

You need to know what and where to buy.

Guido



Then again what do i know

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 10:25

.........Merlot is a "Grape Variety".............. "NOT" a specific wine..........

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 18:47

Guido, sorry I mistook you for Lilli



"We have a lots of good wines in Italy at very resonable prices but we do not export those."

This is exactly my point...

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 18:51

Mine also Grouch I love some very nice reasonably priced Italian wines but couldnt get them in the UK or here. Its now me Lilli xxxxx

Blackbird



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Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 19:07

Hey - just found out that Merlot is thought to be an old French word for a young Blackbird....

martinD41


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Message Posted:
13/03/2011 19:10

Nice one Blackbird.....Away you go my son

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
13/03/2011 19:35

Blackie do I have to call you Merlot from now on. you being a young blackbird. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Blackbird



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Message Posted:
13/03/2011 20:04

Whoa............. love you Lilli........................

Lilli



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Message Posted:
13/03/2011 20:09

love you to, xxxxxx

Groucho



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Message Posted:
13/03/2011 22:21

It's Karatavuk in Turkish