Any wine drinkers here ??
 

I just drank a bottle of wine to celebrate my birthday. ( I'm older than dirt ). Before I started peddling porn for a living, I sold wine for 30 years.
I had a bottle of Banrock Station 2000 Shiraz/Cabernet
( Austrailian ). It sells for $6.99 a bottle. It is absolutely one of the best under $15.00 wines I've ever had- and I literally have tasted thousands of good wines over the years.
If you're looking to get laid, grab a bottle of this ( and ask the clerk to put a $29.99 price tag on it ). Works every time.

2 buck chuck!!! Charles Shaw, 2 bucks a pop at trader joe's

Boonze strawberry wine, 5/03 vintage. Great month and the best under 5.00 a gallon wine.

Wine = Liquid panty remover.

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Yeah, I tried that not too long ago. It's Bag-In-A Box wine that they put in a bottle. I wouldn't wash my dog's balls in that swill, much less drink it. But you have to admire the marketing job they've done with it. People think they've found a great bargain-
The reality is that there's nothing worse than lousy wine- I'd rather drink a cheap beer anytime.

Do dogs balls need to be washed in alchohol?

you know I went to the local liquor store about a month or two ago and the lady recommended the best bottle of merlot... it was only $11. I wanted to spend more but she insisted I try that one. Of course now I can't remember what it was called.

I have a question about white wine. I saw a recipe online for
Garlic Chicken that required "white wine". I didn't know there was a difference between "white wine used for cooking" and "regular white wine for drinking" , so I bought a bottle of
Chardonnay. Can I use Chardonnay for cooking chicken , or am I supposed to buy the cooking white wine? Is there a difference??

I have no idea since I don't ever drink, I only bought the wine for cooking!

as far as inexspensive wines that are really good. i got a bottle called "love my goat" wine from the bullhill vineyard. it's a red wine it's really good.

Best under $15 bottle I've ever had is the Falesco Vitiano merlot/cab/sangiovese blend. Parker routinely scores it in the low 90's, and its around $10.

Falesco also make a very good merlot at around $16. Probably better that 90% of $20-$40 merlots from cali or washington.

There's no difference. Just use cheap table wine to cook with.

Granpa?

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K thanks, I didn't know because a friend told me I bought the wrong one, and needed some kind of "cooking white wine".

But I forgot to buy a corkscrew. :(
Any easy way to open a bottle of wine without one?

Just screw the top off.

Or use your teeth.

I have a question about white wine. I saw a recipe online for
Garlic Chicken that required "white wine". I didn't know there was a difference between "white wine used for cooking" and "regular white wine for drinking" , so I bought a bottle of
Chardonnay. Can I use Chardonnay for cooking chicken , or am I supposed to buy the cooking white wine? Is there a difference??

I have no idea since I don't ever drink, I only bought the wine for cooking!

Always use wine that you would drink for cooking-
Chardonnay is fine. A lot of so-called "Cooking wine" is stuff that is beginning to turn. It's like using slightly rancid chicken in the recipe. The commercial "Cooking wines" are usually loaded with salt- and they will completely screw up the recipe.
It's amazing the number of people who would spend 25 bucks for Lobster Tails and then cheap out and use spoiled wine for the sauce.
Wine is a fruit product- Uncorking a bottle is like unpeeling a banana. Once the air gets to it, it oxidizes, turns brown and starts to spoil. People keep open bottles in their refrigerators for months. 5-6 days is the absolute max, unless its loaded with preservatives, in which case it's unfit to drink at any age.

Yup. Cut off the capsule and grab something thin & strong.. the handle of a large knife maybe.. and use it to push the cork *into* the bottle.

You'll probably have some spill over, and if you don't go slowly at the end you'll get a wine geyser, but it works.

By 'large knife' I meant something like a steak knife btw.. not a meat cleaver. The last time I did this I used the blade of a filet knife.. so that will work too. It just needs to be strong and thin enough to push the cork all the way down the neck into the bottle.

Budging it might be a bit of work in the beginning, but once you've got it to move an inch or so it'll be smooth sailing.

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k, thanks everyone for your wine advice. I will try the knife to get the cork out.

You don't need a whole bottle to cook, unless you are feeding 30 people. So buy a good wine that will compliment the meal and add some to the source.

Some good advise here, I was surprised at the quality and variety of Czech wines when I came to live here.

But at the moment my two favourites are an Italien Chianti and a French Merlot, can't remember the names.

There is a vineyard in Nappa valeeey called Markham, would not use their produce as vinegar, big disappointment. :(

Carlo Rossi Rhine:glugglug