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Pastimes : Wine You Can Enjoy @ Under $20 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (286)	12/28/2005 11:08:28 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1277

Thanks. I'll look for it. The Taber book has a lot of information on the methods used by both the French and the Californians, which except for a few exceptions, like a secondary fermentation of red wine on the part of the Californians, were essentially identical in the 1970s. A fascinating subject. The Californians who were on the cutting edge of the wine industry in the mid 1970s made a bloody fortune. The Taber book makes an interesting point that I knew nothing about. If a small amount of oxygen is injected into a bad red wine at some point of the aging process, it softens the tannins normally associated with cheap wine. Doing this will fool a lot of relatively unsophisticated palates, like mine, into thinking the wine is excellent. I have a friend whose deceased father was quite sophisticated concerning wine. We do her family a huge favor each summer when they visit NO for a few weeks, allowing her to have the run of our house while my family is at work. Since I have a swimming pool, this is a nice thing to have access to during a NO Summer. In return, she leaves a bottle or two of wine from her dad's cellar as a gift. So far, she has given us a 1976 Stag's Leap Merlot, good for historical value only as it was unfortunately corked, a 1991 Guigal Cote de Rhone, a Lalonnde, I think, which was the best bottle of wine I have ever had in my life, and a 1989 Lynch Bages Pauillac that we had this Christmas, which competed strongly with the Rhone. I shudder when I look up the prices on these gifts as there is no way I would pay that much for a bottle of wine, ever. My palate is simply not sophisticated enough to distinguish all the various things folks taste. A reason why I post here. I do have a recommendation in the $20 range. I picked up a few bottles in Houston of the Rothschild special Reserve Medoc, whose year I cannot recall. I had previously drunk the Pauillac, which was excellent. You might be aware that these wines are made from the grapes rejected for the higher end Rothschild wines, but in my book they are terrific and tremendous values. I have raved about the Pauillac before. The Medoc, however, is even better and at more or less $20 per bottles, an unbelievable bargain.