Talking About Wine?
March 27, 2005
I began collecting (more on collecting in a minute) about 1990. My best friend Rod had been accumulatiing fine, realtively nice wines for a few years and I quickly learned that when you find something you like, buy it in quantity, put it away and enjoy it a later day. For most of us wine collecting is not like stamp collecting: we really are buying to consume at some point in time.
My wine taste centers around the reds....
I am from California (please don't hold that against me) and fine California cabernets were in abundance and affordably priced when I bacame interested. I have expanded my tastes over the years and now enjoy French, Spanish, Italian (yum) and Australian. I have recently become enamored with the New Zealand "unoaked" whites in the Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanks (better check the spellings) varieties. Ah...refreshing!
The problem with fine wine now is it is getting unaffordable. What I used to pay $15 to $20 a bottle a few years ago now costs north of $60 a bottle. Need to find more good, inexpensive wines...
That brings me to a couple of recommendations:
- The Leesburg Vintner: Mike Carroll is absolutely the best at finding and stocking good, inexpensive wines. Visit him on the corner of Loudoun and King Streets in Leesburg. Tell him I sent you.
- Windsor Vineyards: Windsor produces some fantastic wines across a wide spectrum of prices. The unique thing about Windsor is they are mail order only! Yes, they ship to Virginia without getting anyone into trouble. They will even put your own signature on the label of the wines you buy. Find them at WindsorVineyards.com
More recommendations in my next article.
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Thanks for the plug for Mike! My attitude about wine is it doesn't have to be expensive to be good. I think some of the inexpensive Italian wines are some of the most enjoyable to drink. Same with Chilean.
I have been a red drinker from the start...I am beginning to enjoy some of the un-oaked whites from New Zealand.
I definitely agree that the Leesburg Vintner is a great little store to purchase wine. They recently had a tasting of some Chilean-based wines (Alma de Chile) that were very tasty and inexpensive. We bought a few bottles which lasted us of course a very short time. I have to laugh because I spent a few years in Germany and fell in love with German Rieslings, but I am now an even bigger fan of reds in general.
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