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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 11:54:03 GMT -5
Bill, I think that's the first wine review I've read that suggests pairing with potato chips. I actually recall editing a champagne rundown not too long ago that mentioned potato chips as a pairing. Why blow money on caviar when you can just demolish a bag of Ruffles? |
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Post by dradtke on Feb 6, 2018 12:07:20 GMT -5
Bill, I think that's the first wine review I've read that suggests pairing with potato chips. I actually recall editing a champagne rundown not too long ago that mentioned potato chips as a pairing. Why blow money on caviar when you can just demolish a bag of Ruffles? Plain or Cheesy Onion? |
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 12:23:19 GMT -5
I actually recall editing a champagne rundown not too long ago that mentioned potato chips as a pairing. Why blow money on caviar when you can just demolish a bag of Ruffles? Plain or Cheesy Onion? Plain, please, with some of this:  |
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Post by Hobson on Feb 6, 2018 12:55:47 GMT -5
Some interesting wine pairings here, worth a careful read if you have the time: azhopsandvines.com/wine-2/Someday I'd like to do a blind box wine tasting. Saltines or white bread seems appropriate for that. |
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 6, 2018 13:04:31 GMT -5
The heading of this thread sounds like a total oxymoron. A box wine that can be recommended?
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 13:05:45 GMT -5
The heading of this thread sounds like a total oxymoron. A box wine that can be recommended? You are missing out if you believe that, Doc. There are TONS of fine wines and great values in boxed wines these days. Cans, too. |
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Post by epaul on Feb 6, 2018 13:49:57 GMT -5
If people would put their money where their wine opinions lie, a good living could be made collecting money from people who think they can pick the bottle from the box.
(before you quit your job and attempt to make your living doing this, be aware that it would take a lot of people willing to put up decent amounts of money, and they would have to pick correctly two out of three times eliminate the fifty/fifty factor of blind ass guessing...which it would be)
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Post by PaulKay on Feb 6, 2018 14:06:07 GMT -5
For some reason, when I box wine I always win. At least as long as I didn’t drank any of it yet.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Feb 6, 2018 19:08:43 GMT -5
We should plan a Idiot wine tasting in the Willamette valley.
Mike
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 19:10:34 GMT -5
We should plan a Idiot wine tasting in the Willamette valley. Mike Oh, man, I would love that. |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Feb 6, 2018 19:12:21 GMT -5
Bill, I think that's the first wine review I've read that suggests pairing with potato chips. I actually recall editing a champagne rundown not too long ago that mentioned potato chips as a pairing. Why blow money on caviar when you can just demolish a bag of Ruffles? You know what is stupidity good that you would not think would be? Corn chips and Planters dry roasted peanuts! Freakin addictive. I'm not sure they go with wine, however. Mike |
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 19:18:16 GMT -5
I actually recall editing a champagne rundown not too long ago that mentioned potato chips as a pairing. Why blow money on caviar when you can just demolish a bag of Ruffles? You know what is stupidity good that you would not think would be? Corn chips and Planters dry roasted peanuts! Freakin addictive. I'm not sure they go with wine, however. Mike I have dry-roasted peanuts on my computer/dining/command-center table at all times, and I find that a small handful of them every once in a while with a glass of Shania red BOXED wine is a lovely combo. In fact ... (reaches out to vessel of sea-salted dry-roast peanuts ... ) |
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 20:32:19 GMT -5
We should plan a Idiot wine tasting in the Willamette valley. Mike Is there a Golden Period when the touristas have diminished and perhaps a couple of folks could fly into Portland and spend a few days in Willamette and maybe Amtrak back to the Twin Cities, like maybe early October, or is that crazy crowded harvest time? |
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Post by jdd2 on Feb 6, 2018 21:24:35 GMT -5
Which boxed reds have had 12-18 months in French oak?
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Feb 6, 2018 21:28:53 GMT -5
Early October would be great. With any amount of luck, the winter torrential rains hold off until (usually, no garrauntees) until the last week of Oct or so. Kids are back in school, the harvest and crush are over, salmon and wild mushrooms are making their appearence at the local farmers markets. Oct means festivals with Bavarian sausage, pretzels and bier. There are far worse times to visit the PNW.
Mike
The above opinions are the views of one geezer surfer and should be taken with a grain of salt, even though he is right.
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Post by billhammond on Feb 6, 2018 22:34:02 GMT -5
Which boxed reds have had 12-18 months in French oak? That I cannot answer -- perhaps none. My point is not that one can find world-class wines in box packages, but rather that the quality of many boxed wines is quite high these days, well beyond what many folks know about, and high on the value scale. |
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Post by epaul on Feb 7, 2018 0:00:23 GMT -5
A good box wine is regarded by many experienced wine regarders as being favorably comparable to a good $15-$20 bottle of wine (same grapes, same vineyards, same wine; different medium).
The difference is that a 3 liter box holds the same amount of wine as four 750ml bottles. Which can mean you are getting that $20 bottle of wine for $5.* And as the wine is not exposed to air or light once you tap it, you have up to eight weeks or so to finish the wine without worry of it going flat, stale, or sour. (which, if the bottle is corked, can happen before you even open it)
* which means, if you guzzle down wine like Jeff, that drinking from the box instead of the bottle can save you an easy ten grand over five years.
Of course, if you purchase Sam's Best Cooking Sherry in the convenient 30-gallon barrels, as Jeff does, that works out only 32 cents a bottle. Which explains Jeff's stock portfolio compared to yours and mine. You can't invest it if you spend it on bottles.
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Post by theevan on Feb 7, 2018 7:27:46 GMT -5
Early October would be great. With any amount of luck, the winter torrential rains hold off until (usually, no garrauntees) until the last week of Oct or so. Kids are back in school, the harvest and crush are over, salmon and wild mushrooms are making their appearence at the local farmers markets. Oct means festivals with Bavarian sausage, pretzels and bier. There are far worse times to visit the PNW. Mike The above opinions are the views of one geezer surfer and should be taken with a grain of salt, even though he is right. Geezer surfers are alright... A geezer surfer (Peter Oberg) made me one some heckuva guitar. |
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Post by Marty on Feb 7, 2018 7:49:13 GMT -5
Plain, please, with some of this: Add some bacon dip and I'm there. |
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Post by jdd2 on Feb 7, 2018 8:45:14 GMT -5
A good box wine is regarded by many experienced wine regarders as being favorably comparable to a good $15-$20 bottle of wine (same grapes, same vineyards, same wine; different medium). ... Generally, no. Can I guess that you're in Minnesota, or one of the Dakotas? Like someplace that doesn't have access to decent wines? Eight weeks? It sounds like you're a church elder, trying to save a few cents on communion wine. Not exposing your wine to air is like not exposing your bread to heat, and thinking you have toast. |
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