I went wine buying yesterday. Wine buying tends to relax me to a degree and it got me out of the house for a while.
We have a liquor outlet around here and yesterday's selection were rather decent. Lots of close outs. Picked up some Texas wines, various French, Spanish, Chilean or Argentinian ones. A case and a few more bottles of a domestic that I found makes a wonderful table red. Three cases, about $122.
One of the French wines I picked up was J.P. Chenet Merlot-Cabernet at $2.50 (in mass, $3.99 for 1 bottle) a bottle. It was .........interesting..........in that it was better than the standard local fare $3.33 bottle types (Cul de Sac and Oak Leaf) but no where near the outlet types of the same price, $3.33, such as Ste. Genevieve and Ryan Patrick Redhead Red.
It's not that it had a bad taste but rather just not impressive at all.
As such, I now have 5 bottles in my "cellar" that will probably only be used when the table wines are depleted and I don't want to open my more expensive wines. They sit on an upper rack, a counter style Pier 1, probably my first rack from long ago that now serves as an overflow, because it was found that it was the only rack they would fit on. It's an odd shaped bottle, like that of brandy, with a huge base.
Oh, well, live and learn and I have found out, no wine is totally worthless. If it is undrinkable, it can always be used for getting burnt food off the bottom of pots.
We have a liquor outlet around here and yesterday's selection were rather decent. Lots of close outs. Picked up some Texas wines, various French, Spanish, Chilean or Argentinian ones. A case and a few more bottles of a domestic that I found makes a wonderful table red. Three cases, about $122.
One of the French wines I picked up was J.P. Chenet Merlot-Cabernet at $2.50 (in mass, $3.99 for 1 bottle) a bottle. It was .........interesting..........in that it was better than the standard local fare $3.33 bottle types (Cul de Sac and Oak Leaf) but no where near the outlet types of the same price, $3.33, such as Ste. Genevieve and Ryan Patrick Redhead Red.
It's not that it had a bad taste but rather just not impressive at all.
As such, I now have 5 bottles in my "cellar" that will probably only be used when the table wines are depleted and I don't want to open my more expensive wines. They sit on an upper rack, a counter style Pier 1, probably my first rack from long ago that now serves as an overflow, because it was found that it was the only rack they would fit on. It's an odd shaped bottle, like that of brandy, with a huge base.
Oh, well, live and learn and I have found out, no wine is totally worthless. If it is undrinkable, it can always be used for getting burnt food off the bottom of pots.
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