for me it's the cheapest bottle at tesco

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pimp shit

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Took my WSET 2 exam, pretty confident I passed

>>22016276
Nice Legacy Audio boomer speakers, what kind of Shakti Stones do you use with them?

Timorasso time

>>22015966
>poor shit
ftfy poor faggot

>>22017015
keep wasting $50 on placebo bottles that gets beaten by 2 buck chuck in taste tests kek

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>>22015951
Think this is any good?

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Cheninbois ww@?

>>22017109
As long as its not corked, hell fucking yeah.
At least by big champ house standards.
Personally I'd take Roger Coulon over Pol Roger.

>>22017109
if it was stored properly, 1996 was one of the GOAT vintages
I had some 1996 Charles Heidsieck a few months that was still alive and kicking, candied apple and marzipan and a little old furniture

coravin was so worth it

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Chardonnay and Spinach-cheese ravioli tonight

>>22017258
How am I suppose to use a coravin properly when wine requires some oxygenation to be ideal? I'm not going to let red wine stay in a glass for 20 minutes before drinking it every time

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>>22015952

>>22016276
Didn't realise red Colli Tortonesi was a thing.

La Colombera is also the only producer I recognise here.

>>22017109
Had a newer vintage of this and I was disappointed. I suspect prestige coovies are probably not worth it, and I love Champagne.

>>22017113
Right here but I shamefully haven't had any for a while.

>>22017399
have patience you boozehound

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>>22017399
Coravin has an aerator attatchement

>>22017850
aerating your wine is a fucking placebo scam. on the level of coffee needing to "bloom"

>>22017861
so then why does this shitter >>22017399 complain about needing to wait 20 minutes before drinking a glass of red?

>>22018001
the additional oxyengation offered from aerators is very little, you still need to let your glass sit if you use a coravin

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>>22018042
and what is the point of letting the glass sit?

>>22015951
I've never had wine, feel like I must be missing out on some great human experience but I waited too long to experience it and I feel like it would be impossible to start. Even the selection at walmart is too intimidating, thousands of bottles all with unpronounceable names. How does anyone even get their foot in the door?

>>22018719
If you're looking for "some great human experience" don't buy wine at walmart

If there's a wine bar in your city, just go there, tell them your situation, be prepared to take a taxi home

Do this 2 or 3 times, and take notes on what you liked and didn't like

That should be enough to get you to where you can walk into a shop and walk out with something without feeling like it was totally random

The point where you're comfortable with the entire inventory takes a while. At a big shop you'll probably never get there. At a shitty shop you'll get the ick from a glance at the first 2 shelves and do a 360 and walk out

>>22018748
>>22018719
Also, you should indulge your curiosity and be honest with yourself on what you liked, be prepared not to like things, that's part of the fun. Liking what you're told to like is how we get god awful trends like the "natty wine" thing where everything smells like raw sewage and dirty socks and all the hipsters pretended they liked it until somehow everyone collectively came to their senses in the last few years

>>22018719
not really, you're one good mixed case away from entering your golden age where you're just discovering all this new fascinating shit for the first time

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>>22018719
you just keep buying bottles, drinking their contents and taking some notes on what's good or not.
it really is very nice when a pairing hits just right, and the whole experience becomes greater than just the sum of its parts. one of my fondest memories is getting shitfaced with wines and cheese at a teachers' party.

anyway for me, it's the BiB.

>>22017605
i think that barbera was the best red of the haul, maybe the st joseph was better.

>>22016276
That's a tasteful room, are you unironically gay?

>>22018719
>feel like I must be missing out on some great human experience
you're really not. wine is the alcoholic beverage with the least variance in taste. if you've tasted a bottle in one style, that's basically enough to know the entire style. this is further confirmed by sommeliers being unable to tell the difference between a $100 bottle and a $10 bottle in blind taste tests. so when you do buy wine, buy the cheapest shit.

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>>22019299

I have a 15% Côtes du Rhône and surprisingly it's drinkable

I still dislike southern wines nowadays, they're sooo heavy, i almost only drink them with my parents

The Loire valley is the future