Can we also talk about the pleasures of good wine?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Awesome, I'm among the nutters!  Here's a q.  All other things being equal, what value do you place on ABV, in USD..please.

From what I’ve gleaned from my oenophile friends, wine price varies inversely with ABV, but only to a point. 

Boru

[LastPoet]

I am Portuguese, 'nuff said.

[The Grand Nudger]

Ha, predate me! Boones farm is the shit!



Personally....I prefer a dry greek red with little residual sugar and high ABV. I'm just wondering what the balance on AF is...among wine drinkers, between abv, sweetness, and cost.


-for example...say the price of two described bottles is the same

one bottle has an abv roughly equivalent to liquor, but is not sweet,is hot, and causes the cheeks to hollow.
the other has an abv roughly equivalent to beer, tastes like koolaid, is cold, and causes the cheeks to swell.

Which do you prefer?

[LastPoet]

I'm obsessed with wine.  I don't drink the shit - but I'd love to make money off of people who do.  I've been trying to grow grapes for a decade.  For some odd reason or four, I never end up with any grapes at the end of season.

After my chemistry course at school, I did an internship at the National Wine Research station. Suffice to say I learned alot about the product and it's making with the top winemakers here, with the plus that my dead grandpa also had vinyards and made its own wine.

What castes are you growing? What is the climate and irrigation thar?

[arewethereyet]

Ha, predate me!  Boones farm is the shit!  



Personally....I prefer a dry greek red with little residual sugar and high ABV.  I'm just wondering what the balance on AF is...among wine drinkers, between abv, sweetness, and cost.


-for example...say the price of two described bottles is the same

one bottle has an abv roughly equivalent to liquor, but is not sweet,is hot, and causes the cheeks to hollow.
the other has an abv roughly equivalent to beer, tastes like koolaid, is cold, and causes the cheeks to swell.

Which do you prefer?

Hard for me to answer because I haven't had a drink in many, many years.  It was never my drug of choice.

I do not like beer in any form or fashion.  When I did drink it was mainly rum though I did enjoy some of the after dinner type liquors high in flavor and low in alcohol.  Crème de Menthe and Cointrea things like that.

[The Grand Nudger]

Cab Sauv. Greenhouses. My first love was obviously prison blanc as A Florida Man™ and our lovely muscadines.

When you say had - I take it the property isn't in family anymore?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

LOL, can't help myself.  What makes a wine cheap?  If I wanted to sell wine for the price of a packet of koolaid* - what should that wine taste like?

What are you willing to put up with?

*approx $3.50 per 750ml wholesale.

I used to pass Italian pick up trucks with one HUGE glass bottle in the back. When the wine was ready they'd buy 250 liters of it at a time. I imagine this was the daily swill, not the good stuff.

[Dundee]

I am Portuguese, 'nuff said.

And if some-one is French or Spanish or Italian - does that also count?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ha, predate me!  Boones farm is the shit!  



Personally....I prefer a dry greek red with little residual sugar and high ABV.  I'm just wondering what the balance on AF is...among wine drinkers, between abv, sweetness, and cost.


-for example...say the price of two described bottles is the same

one bottle has an abv roughly equivalent to liquor, but is not sweet,is hot, and causes the cheeks to hollow.
the other has an abv roughly equivalent to beer, tastes like koolaid, is cold, and causes the cheeks to swell.

Which do you prefer?

Whichever one tastes the most like melted popsicles.

Boru

[LastPoet]

Cab Sauv.  Greenhouses.  My first love was obviously prison blanc as A Florida Man™ and our lovely muscadines.

When you say had - I take it the property isn't in family anymore?

When grandpa died, inheritance of that terrain went to my cousin, my aunt was already dead. They sold it. It had two native castes that work well, "tinta miuda" and national tauriga. Damn...

It didn't need any greenhouse....