The price of wine is dropping fast
Let's raise our glasses and toast to cheaper wine.
Do you drink wine, Era?
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CNN: The price of wine is dropping fast
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Do you drink wine, Era?
I'm in Portugal so yeah, there's a lot of amazing wine available for cheap prices.
I used to drink more though. Now it's only on some weekend dinners. Very sporadic.
The article seems to focus on the substantial increase in volume of production seen in Cali.
Some recs
Reds:
Xisto Preto
Cabeça de Burro Reserve
Monte das Servas Reserve
Tapada do Chaves
Quinta do Cardo
Casa Santos Lima Syrah
Whites:
Muralhas de Monção
Alvarinho Deu La Deu
Coutada Velha
Alvarinho - Trajadura
Also there's this low production fizzy white that's only available on a specific region "Mealhada", and it's served with a regional pork dish. That stuff is amazing.
It only comes in smaller half litre bottles. Can't remember it's name though.
I have no clue if any of these are sold outside of Portugal, but anyway...
The most expensive wine on that list is maybe 20 bucks tops.
I used to drink more though. Now it's only on some weekend dinners. Very sporadic.
The article seems to focus on the substantial increase in volume of production seen in Cali.
That's grape juice... or is it grape drink?
Some recs
Reds:
Xisto Preto
Cabeça de Burro Reserve
Monte das Servas Reserve
Tapada do Chaves
Quinta do Cardo
Casa Santos Lima Syrah
Whites:
Muralhas de Monção
Alvarinho Deu La Deu
Coutada Velha
Alvarinho - Trajadura
Also there's this low production fizzy white that's only available on a specific region "Mealhada", and it's served with a regional pork dish. That stuff is amazing.
It only comes in smaller half litre bottles. Can't remember it's name though.
I have no clue if any of these are sold outside of Portugal, but anyway...
The most expensive wine on that list is maybe 20 bucks tops.
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Usually when I'm in a slightly more formal setting or anniversaries and such.
I drink mead and honey-wine on regular basis, though. Does that count?
I think the production increase is limited to US, since Europe has been struggling with the impact of climate change. As a fan of Bourgogne Pinot Noirs and Piemonte Nebbiolos this worries me that the price of quality wine will only push higher as cheaper wines flood the market.
Apparently wine consumption dipped for the first time in 25 years in the US. So you feel correctly!
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/4...for-first-time-in-a-quarter-century-last-year
For shame! Wine is the only alcoholic beverage I consistently drink. So many flavours!
Not even tbh. Tons of people drink wine. I'm not in the dating game anymore but in my early 20's I feel like every single okcupid profile mentioned netflix and wine as hobbies. My girlfriend drinks wine all the time, I like it too but I'm more of a beer guy.
I love whiskey rum and gin and I'm huge on cocktail creation. I never really understood wine for a long time but in the last few years I've grown an appreciation for it and how cheap a bottle can be had for. The amount of diversity and selection is insane due to the high competition and the low price barrier of entry is great. If that's going to trend down for a few years that's a good thing in my books.
I drink a glass of wine with dinner almost nightly. It is by far my drink of choice with a meal (I do prefer a good IPA with pizza or sushi). Alcohol truly can enhance a meal (red wine + chocolate = heaven). That said I do mostly limit my after dinner drinking to zero.
Sweet? Go for an eiswein (ice wine) which is distilled from the juice of frozen grapes. You'll only drink a small glass though, it's such thick nectar of the gods. Another option would be a Hungarian tokaji, especially if you hit "5 puttonyos" (meaning five crates of grapes were used for your small bottle).
Wine should not get cheaper, but more expensive. I don't know if you are aware of the natural wine 'trend'. This is wine that is basically just fermented grape juice, as all wine should be, but isn't. Wine is kept cheap by heavily underpaying farmers (large wineries just buy grapes cheaply from grape farmers in the region), adding all kinds of things to the wine to artifically give flavor (sugar, flavourings and fruit juices for taste, industrial yeasts that are designed to carry a certain flavor, animal products like fish gall, gelatine and such to clarify the wine, even things like cement to filter and then there's the sulphites for conserving and stabilizing it) and fatiguing the soil by playing new vines and harvest immediately (instead of waiting the normal 20 years for grapes from a new vine to become drinkable). Of course vines are also heavily sprayed with pesticides and such, even organic ones.
This really should be a 'luxury' product in the sense that every wine should be something special to drink attentively. There are more additives and artificial flavourings in expensive Moet & Chandon than in Coca-Cola, I mean....wtf? I like to drink only natural wine/vins naturels: no headaches, a clear conscience and amazing flavours.
Action Bronson has a cool series about it:
Action Bronson Drinks France's Top Natural Wine - From Paris with Love (Part 1)
This really should be a 'luxury' product in the sense that every wine should be something special to drink attentively. There are more additives and artificial flavourings in expensive Moet & Chandon than in Coca-Cola, I mean....wtf? I like to drink only natural wine/vins naturels: no headaches, a clear conscience and amazing flavours.
Action Bronson has a cool series about it:
Action Bronson Drinks France's Top Natural Wine - From Paris with Love (Part 1)
I recommend a port. Ports are both a little sweet and stronger than other wines.
Try PIETAS, a carignan from the Languedoc region of France.
See above.
I find it surprising Millenials are the ones killing wine. Feels like many moved on from craft beer to wine. Anecdotal evidence, I guess.
I used to have a bottle every so often. But man, it got to where I'd get headaches pretty much anytime I had more than one glass. Wasn't worth it.
Wonder why the demand is going down? I know it started to go up after the film Sideways, but that was a long time ago.
Wonder why the demand is going down? I know it started to go up after the film Sideways, but that was a long time ago.
I enjoy all forms of drinking, and consume them all about equally. My wine consumption has gone way down this year, as my wife is pregnant, and I can't finish a bottle myself before it goes sour.
Sounds good to me, I make Rindrouladen (German beef rolls) all the time, and red wine is a primary ingredient.
So this is mainly US wine, right? I don't usually drink wine, but I don't know if I trust american wine to be as good as european wine. I probably wouldn't choose it myself.
European wine is very expensive.
I think I'd rather drink a 10$ red californian wine than a 10$ bordeaux.
I will always suggest Lambrusco. It isn't too dry or tart, it has a touch of carbonation, and it is CHEAP
Yeah, I'm sure they're ok. Just never occured to me to try them. But as I said, I'm not much of a wine drinker in the first place.
