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This is a work in progress list of some of my favorite things to drink. 

Italy
Monti Rossi - Pinot Grigio
This is a house wine in one of our favorite restaurants  in NYC’s little italy.

Australia
Yellow Tail – Shiraz
The Yellow Tail wines are all priced reasonable enough to use them in cooking.  

Jacobs Creek – Shiraz
 

South Africa
Goats Do Roam
This is a good solid bang for the buck red wine.

Landskroon- Shiraz
Full bodied, that means it a pretty rich red wine. 14% alch means you wont have to drink as many beers.
 

New York

Martha Clara – Glaciers End
Crisp fruity summer time favorite. Any bottle that is blue with a Polar Bear on it is a drink for me.

Pindar -Mythology
Pindar makes some good wines, but none of then are the chepa $10 bottles you see around you local stores. A bottle of Mythology is about $30-40. There is no comparison to there less expensive wines.

Rasta Ranch – Uncle Homers Red
This is stuff is judt like drinking fruit punch. Made by a family still wearing Tye Deye shirts and putting wine in jugs. Wine from the Rasta Ranch is just play made for drinking, Dont swirl it around the glass or make bird sounds sucking it through your lips. Open up the Jug and drink until you need a new jug. But seriously. This is a fun wine company and a fun product. I many of their staff at the 2008 Hudson Valley wine festival. After you back for a few tasting you get to know the people. 

More To Come…

What are some of your favorites? Tell me so I can add them to the list. 

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Shiraz South Africa

Shiraz South Africa

A few months ago I had a conversation with the owner of a wine store located in downtown NY city. I asked him quite simply “What do you drink?”

After a few expensive wine snob A list choices he went on to recommend that I start trying wines from South Africa. About a week later I was in my local wine shop looking for one of his bang for the buck suggestions. The name of the winery was “Goats Do Roam” a very respected South African Wine that costs about $11 a bottle. It was summer at the time and the bottle went great with a hot grill full of barbecued meets. Im not going to describe the wine with phrases like “hints of oak” or “mild flavors of cherry and chocolate”. If you see a bottle, it has a kind of yellowish orange label on it with a goat, just try it. Its worth the $11 and you might be surprised to like it more then those over priced commercial wines from the California that taste like advertising. 

 

More recently I found another great Shiraz from South Africa while shopping in Bottle Buys in Glen Head. (Check back on the site in a few weeks for a detailed review of Bottle Buys) This bottle was also in the $10 price range and was from the Paarl region and called Landskroon. This was a nice Shiraz that went good with the cheese I was snacking on at the time. The bottle I had picked was from 2005. A couple of years can really smooth out a wine. Usually most wines in this price range aren’t any older then 2006 or 2007.

When i spoke with the owner of the wine store many months ago he told me a secret.  When you buy wines places that the US Dollar is very weak you are paying much more money for good wine. When you buy a wines from places where the US Dollar is strong you are getting a wine that is worth much more for your money. So far this has proven well for my wallet and my wine glass. 

2 South African Wines To Try

Goats Do Roam

Landskroon

The Essential Guide To South African Wines

What are your favorite wines?

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