Classic wines for everyday prices

[helenas]

Classic wines for everyday prices .

[Steve Plotnicki]

Yes I often serve the Felton Road Pinot Noir. Especially when Aubert de Villaine is going to be a dinner guest.

[baruch]

that would be a very strange choice if he was your guest.

[britcook]

Mmm, Felton Road Pinot Noir. Only $39.99/bottle, ideal for everyday!

Not.

[Steve Plotnicki]

Well if you read the article that was linked, it said that the Felton was recommended for those people who like Romanee Conti.

[baruch]

thx for "taking the bait", & yes i read the article if aubert was, in fact, a guest at your table ever, then, i assume, you would KNOW what he would prefer to drink. perhaps a little hint, it would not be the felton road

[britcook]

Well if you read the article that was linked, it said that the Felton was recommended for those people who like Romanee Conti.

It could have been recommended for people who bath in cognac for all I care, if you think $39.99 is an everyday price then congratulations sir on your wealth.

[Miss J]

It could have been recommended for people who bath in cognac

Good God, could you imagine the smell?

[StephenT]

It could have been recommended for people who bath in cognac

Good God, could you imagine the smell?

And best not stand near any naked flames.

[Steve Plotnicki]

Well if you normally drink Romanee Conti, which costs between $2000-$3000 a bottle, well then surely $39.99 is everyday wine. And one can find something better then cognac to bath in as well.

[GordonCooks]

I've had Felton Rd Pinot and it wasn't particularly memorable.

I remember thinking that the price point was way high for a NZ pinot. I drank it with a Brick House and Domaine Carneros and thought they were both better.

[mickblueeyes]

Leasingham Shiraz 15.99

Yalumba Barossa Shiraz 15.99

Calama Cab 5.99

Blackstone Syrah 9.99

Now those are good everyday wines. 39.99 for an everyday wine is ridiculous. I don't know who the author thinks his audience is, but he may want to recheck that as I don't think he is catering to the lower 95% of the population of wine drinkers--that's a $15,000 a year wine habit.

[AdamLawrence]

I've had the Felton Road 99 Pinot, and also one of their reserve 'Block' bottlings and I thought it was among the best new world PNs I'd tried. Admittedly this is a fairly small sample - I've not had any US Pinots, don't see many of them over here. Other favourites include Pipers' Brook from Tasmania and Bouchard Finlayson from South Africa.

Certainly agree these aren't everyday wines, at least for me - most run close to twenty quid retail in the UK market. In fact, I think many of these new world pinots are starting to get out of control pricewise. You can buy very good burgundy, even with some bottle age if you look carefully enough, for that kind of price from specialist merchants.

cheers

Adam

[Tonyfinch]

Other favourites include Pipers' Brook from Tasmania and Bouchard Finlayson from South Africa.

I'd add to that Coldstream Hills from Oz (forget where) made by the wine writer and critic James Halliday. The reserve is delicious but distinctly un-Burgundy like with far more emphsis on upfront strawberry fruit.

I drank oceans of Oregon PN when I stayed there in the late 80s and found it all to be v. mediocre and well overpriced compared to good Burgundy. Maybe things have improved since then.

[Coop]

monsieur de Villaine will not be an invited geust at my house because I am still waiting for Madame Bize Leroy to drop by. we intend to have Night Train and Pork rinds and perhaps for old time sake a bottle of DRC la Tache 85.