Confessions of a Wine Snob

[Rugby]

Does this ring any bells?

Confessions of a wine snob

 

[drron]

He actually suffers from an addiction to names.It is quite common.There are very good wines that dont come at a great price.I accidently learnt this when I started buying wines.A good friends father worked for Lindeman's and gave some good advice on what to look for if you wanted to cellar wines.So I bought a case of Tyrrell's Pokolbin Dry Red 1969 at the exorbitant price of 60 cents a bottle.Stored it under my bed.Moved out of home in 1970 and forgot about it.1978 and my mother tells me they decide to make my old bedroom a sunroom and so found said case of wine.By this time I was living in the Hunter and a member of a wine club.I thought of just throwing the case out but decided to try it first.It was sensational.So took it along as a blind tasting to the club and it was received very well.Total shock when I revealed the label.
So again the best wine is always the wine you like.We are all different so there are a host of "best" wines.

 

[wooley]

He actually suffers from an addiction to names.It is quite common.There are very good wines that dont come at a great price.I accidently learnt this when I started buying wines.A good friends father worked for Lindeman's and gave some good advice on what to look for if you wanted to cellar wines.So I bought a case of Tyrrell's Pokolbin Dry Red 1969 at the exorbitant price of 60 cents a bottle.Stored it under my bed.Moved out of home in 1970 and forgot about it.1978 and my mother tells me they decide to make my old bedroom a sunroom and so found said case of wine.By this time I was living in the Hunter and a member of a wine club.I thought of just throwing the case out but decided to try it first.It was sensational.So took it along as a blind tasting to the club and it was received very well.Total shock when I revealed the label.
So again the best wine is always the wine you like.We are all different so there are a host of "best" wines.

Very true.. And with grape and winery contracts generally only signed on set volumes the overflow is then sold as bulk at greatly reduced costs at a wholesale and retail level.

It wasn't long ago that there was a $5 adelaide hills clean skin on the market which was an oversell of a brand which was marketed at over $40/bottle.

 

[dodgeyhack]

I do agree about the glasses though.

 

[Deleted member]

I think from time to time I too am a bit of a wine snob. However I'm not so flush that I will turn my nose up a a bottle of sub $20.00 Vin Ordinaire ! In fact one of the great advantages of living in this country is the abundance of great and inexpensive wines. I don't have many "good" glasses , but I get by. My dear old mum once said "I may drink cheap wine, but I drink it from good crystal glasses".

 

[trixydoza]

Through work I've had a lot of opportunities to drink a lot of nice wines in a lot of nice places.

I'm probably happiest at home drinking in the $10-$15 range, maybe $25 if I'm feeling lavish or have guests. And I think I get to about 90%–95% of the quality of the fancy stuff. Close enough that I don't care, anyway.

I've also noticed that the same wine can taste very different depending on the company you're keeping.

 

[OATEK]

He actually suffers from an addiction to names.It is quite common.There are very good wines that dont come at a great price.I accidently learnt this when I started buying wines.A good friends father worked for Lindeman's and gave some good advice on what to look for if you wanted to cellar wines.So I bought a case of Tyrrell's Pokolbin Dry Red 1969 at the exorbitant price of 60 cents a bottle.Stored it under my bed.Moved out of home in 1970 and forgot about it.1978 and my mother tells me they decide to make my old bedroom a sunroom and so found said case of wine.By this time I was living in the Hunter and a member of a wine club.I thought of just throwing the case out but decided to try it first.It was sensational.So took it along as a blind tasting to the club and it was received very well.Total shock when I revealed the label.
So again the best wine is always the wine you like.We are all different so there are a host of "best" wines.

Reminds me of some Tyrrell's Long Flat Red bought out of a "specials" bin from a shop in Broadway back around the early 1970s. They reckoned some bottles might be suspect, having not been stored correctly so "no guarantees, refunds" etc. While they only lasted a couple of years they were brilliant. Took me another trip to clean them out after trying the first bottle the week after I bought the first lot, and I think it was something like $0.69 each! Probably got about 15 bottles from memory and eked them out over a couple of years as it was back when everything I earned and a bit more went in to getting a house. A one off experience sadly never repeated despite returning occasionally to the half-barrel specials bin at the same shop over a number of years.

Last week I picked up some 2010 Shiraz from what was to me an unknown winemaker for <$20, and it drank very well.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Nope, no bells.