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Best Bottle of Red Wine under $20

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Red Diamond Cab (Washington State) is a very good wine for the money. Usually around $10 or so per bottle. Its alot like the Hogue but better and cheaper.



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no idea.. i've been getting all my wine at cost for the last few months... i discovered the last one i really liked was about $80 retail and the one i had before (that i wasnt so keen on) is over a $100..

however i'm a HUGE fan of an Aussie blend "Mak" (about 16 retail) and there is a $8 "Five Rivers" that is very tasty as well... (and the label has what looks like a bellyflier even..)
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Francis Coppala's Claret 2002 $19.00



That is one of the wineries we visit when we go to Napa, CA. We really like Coppala's wines. The winery itself is incredible. If you get the chance, go visit it.

Derek




Thanks for the heads up. It's definitely on my list when I make it to Cali next. His high end wines are suppossed to be where it's at.

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A locally grown wine called Scarlett (yes, ther eis a Rhett, too). You generally can't get it except from the shop in Dahlonega, GA so I buy it by the case.

I also like Rosemont Shiraz....2002 was a very good year.

GFD brought some really good ones to the Dublin boogie last year, too. I can't say the names of any of them and don't see them around but I think they were from South America, Brazil maybe.

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That is one of the wineries we visit when we go to Napa, CA. We really like Coppala's wines. The winery itself is incredible. If you get the chance, go visit it.




I got a chance to visit last February. We spent two day in Napa...one touring the local wineries. Did one of those van tours. That's really the way to go. I mean...who wants to spit out all that lovely wine. Alan and I both ended up pretty much snookered. Of course, it was probably the entire bottle of wine we had at the deli that got us that way.

I thought Coppalo's place was great and certainly beautiful.

J

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the last one i really liked was about $80 retail and the one i had before (that i wasnt so keen on) is over a $100.

I used to have a friend who chartered oil tankers for a then-major oil company. He said that the agents are incredible whores; they'll do anything to get the business.

So when one was being particularly offensive at the country club in Houston, he went ahead, and as offered, ordered the wine he wanted. $700/bottle, in 1976. He said it was delicious, at least twice as good as some $200 wine he'd had, which was at least twice as good as some $75 wine he'd also had.

And the $75 wine was not really twice as good as $25 wine.

So he determined that that $75 was the most he'd spend of his own money, and a nice splurge was a $25 bottle of wine. 1970's prices, but wine hasn't risen as much as a lot of other things.

And we had some nice Ravenswood zinfandel with pasta last night. It's wonderful to come home late to dinner being all ready; all I had to do was light the candles :)
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Derek and I decided that the most wineries you can do in a day is 4, two before lunch and two after. Definitely do not have wine with lunch either, anything more than that and you can't remember what you drank or where you got it. ;)
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Not a reply specifically to you Sky.


As one of the many winemakers for the worlds largest wine company it is good to see so many of you drinkning our wines!! :ph34r:

That being said, I recommend checking out some of the reds or whites for that matter from Ferrari-Carano. Not one of our wineries. ;)

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Yes, sadly when we got the champagne at the end of tour it tasted like those apple bitters you spray to keep dogs from eating stuff.

I think your right about four being enough in one day...but what the heck, I won't get back for a while.

J

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Its 3 Buck Chuck by us and I'm not even sure if they carry it anymore. I'd call it the best wine under $10.00, but if you up your budget to between $10 and $20, you can do much better!

hmmm- I wonder if I can squeeze a trip to the wine store into my budget this weekend........;)

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