Proving again that you don't know what you are talking about.
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How to Get the Best Value in Budget Wines
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Proving again that you don't know what you are talking about.
http://www.jacksontriggswinery.com/en/ourWines/awards/index.html
Ya know there isn't a wine you people have mentioned here that i have not puchased some brand of in search of a decent bottle of Canuk wine....None of them did anything for me....maybe i'm sensitive to the canadian tanins....but to call me ignorant cause i see them as swillish...there i came down a notch...there is this very cheap canadian brand solo nero both the red and the white are palatable for me....i can handle them.....but seriously a cheap screw off cap of white calis obanni italian will out perform any canadian white you put beside it...ignorant is not a word i would use towards a wine discussion....
sorry to bust yer bubble with the flowery site and all....like i said these competitions are completely corporation generated...jackson triggs is horrid...tastes like coal oil and is sold in places like Dominion for chrissakes..estate wine...lol.....ROFL....
juan trust me on this one...the wine industry is gotta be one of the biggest con games on the planet....that being said there are wines and then there are wines....
go grag a pellee island site ROFL....
The go-to drink.
We used that stuff to lubricate girls back in the mid seventies.
ROFL!!!!!
Doc I seriously doubt you would recognise a good wine if it landed on your head. I've spent years in Europe and I've experienced the best wine Europe had to offer. My guess is that you are used to wine that comes in gallon jugs with a finger ring on the neck....Either that or the kind you drink out of a brown paper bag.
Methinks ya been hangin with a certain someone ....yer posts are getting a little hostile there juan.....
But here have yer jackson triggs.....and some beef jerky and enjoy.....
And all that expierence and you come up with an ad for jackson triggs....well done juan ...aces
Jackson Triggs make a very nice Chardonay, an excellent Sommet Blanc, and a pretty decent Chablis, for eight or nine dollars a bottle. For the price you can't do any better. You want to call it swill....go for it.
So do I. That's really how to get the best value. You can make your own for $2-$3 a bottle that's better than anything you can buy for under $25. A no brainer to me.
to be honest after a think juan...maybe i should drop the whole as my wife puts it "Upside down wine snobbery"....seriously..i apologise for being this way about Canadain wine...it's actually rude of me.
For those who make their own wines, Triedit and Dexter, do you grow your own grapes, or is it one of those kit dealies? I'm not a big fan of those kits, but I do love the other option I mentioned. When I was going to school in Fredericton, a friend of mine invited me over to his uncles for dinner. He sent us back with 8 bottles, the port was delicious. He did grow his own grapes. I would like to give that a try when I'm out of school and have some property to tend to.
Nah, ours is from a kit. But we like the taste and although it may not win any awards, it does what we need it to do. Im not a wine snob.
Dex--we made some ice wine too...I wasn't that impressed. Have you tried the ice?
Dex--we made some ice wine too...I wasn't that impressed. Have you tried the ice?
I have always found Jost makes a very tasty inhebriant, I particularly like the 12.5-13% range of swillable wild berry wines they produce at encourageing prices, I'v been doing Comtessa all summer. They all go with cornbeef hash, which is convienient.
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Mine too. Grapes don't grow in Saskatchewan, and I'm not about to try making wine out of dandelions or any of the little berries that do grow around here. Too much like work. Never tried any ice wine, I haven't liked the commercial stuff I've sampled and don't feel inclined to try making something I'm pretty sure I won't like much. I'm no wine snob either, though some kit-users are. There are several grades of kits available, which at the low end will cost about $2-$3 a bottle to make and go up to around $7-$8 a bottle, but frankly my palate isn't sophisticated enough to detect much difference, and the high end stuff takes a lot longer and a lot more work.
Of the commercial varieties I've sampled recently, the Naked Grape brand seems pretty decent, and good value for the money. They make a very nice unoaked Chardonnay and a Merlot that were quite palatable.
There's a winery here in Florida that won some award. Generally, however, Florida isn't a place conducive to wine making.
Rather than citing "many international awards" - of which I'm sure is true - instead tally up all the international awards handed out over the past decade and where would Canada place on an international scale? Canada will produce a decent wine, but not consistently produce above average wines compared to other places. The goes for Washington and New York states as well.
Canada's climate is better suited for beer-making. Canada produces some beers that are second to no one anywhere. And I don't mean those crappy cooking beers, Molson and Labbatts either!
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Anybody get drunk on Baby Duck when they were young? Speaking of rot gut. I still can not drink a sparkling wine. Even Dom Perignon would make me hurl.
I used to work for a beer and wine distributor. I know the guy that popularized Baby Duck, or at least was part of the marketing effort. They used to go and hand it out to the homeless winos.
True story.
I'm pretty sure they don't do that anymore
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BTW, anyone know of a good place to buy wines in the Comox Valley and Saskatoon? I've generally found the selection in those places lacking. Perhaps that's what colours my opinions of Canadian vintners.
I find the kits tend to smell WONDERful.... and taste either like water or just plain foul. And the hangover from powdered wine kit reds seems to be one of THE most hellish things a person could expirience. And you don't even need to actually get drunk to have the hangover. Lovely.