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Originally Posted by H2o2
Chile has some great reds under 15$.Iam a Cab Sav guy but maybe start with Merlot as a bit smoother
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Chile has some amazing cheep wines but they are still a rather young wine producing nation and I find there wines are rather incosistant, one year I had a merlot that was exalant, but the next year the same lable was so badI wouldn't feed it to a dog.
befor we can realy recomend a red for every day drinking we would have to know what kind of taste you have. do you want a heavy red to drink with a meal, a medium that could be drunk with a meal or by its self, or a red for sipping on its own with a few friends?
also do you like a heavy, medium or light red, and finaly do you like dry very dry sweet, ect?
I have a few reds I like, there is the ones for eating with a meal, cab sav, and red zinfandel (not the rose version) but they are all full bodied dry reds. my personaly choice of these three is the zinfandel. the cab sav is the classic mainstay with heavy oak and fruit undertones.
for medium boddies ones Shiraz and Merlot (although I finds some merlots to be full bodied) are good medium bodied wine. if you like a pepery flavor the merlot might be your choice, but the shiraz is a very nice wine also.
for light wines Pinot Noir, Petit Syrah are nice drinking ones.
as for recomending a perticular bottle that is hard as everyones tasts are different, and I make 90% of my own wine now so my recomendations would be about 3 years out of date, but what I would recomend is depending on how often you drink wine, go out buy a few boittles say 3 different ones. buy some fruit and cheese and have a mini wine tasting with some friends.. I used to run wine tastings when I worked in the wine store, and I have done them with a few friends.. we had three cupples and each couple brought a bottle. have some simple guid lines like every one bring the same type of wine but from different countries or regions. or maybe different types of wines from the same region.
I would recomend starting by trying different wines from the same region, so have a BC night and have say a cab sav, a merlot and a zinfandel. pic your faviorite, then next time try the one you liked the best but from different areas, zinfandel will be hard as it is mainly from california, but you could try different wineries ect. then try medium ones and light ones.. you can have a lot of fun and try a tone of different wines this way for relitively little money.
I recomended starting off with the Cab sav, merlot and zinfandel as they are normaly 3 very good wines and all can be found in versions under 15 bucks.
one warning though, once you get hooked you could end up spending money on another hobby and start making your own wine. this is a more simple hobby compared to reefing and if you can ballance water chemistry in a tank you can easily make wine
I make some reds that end up costing me about 3 to 4 bucks a bottle that I would put up against $50.00+ bottles in a heartbeat and at one time I had over 400 buttles of 14 different types of wine. I used to make wine with friends also.. so each of us would make a batch then we would get 10 bottles from each batch.. so 3 friends = 3 batches = 90 bottles of 3 different wines so that is a good way to build up a variaty of wines.
Steve