Wine drinkers - what's your favorite? (red wine, best, Pinot Noir, bottle)

[Seeking8498]

For you wine drinkers out there, what's your favorite? Looking for ideas/recommendations as it's so fun to try new ones.

[dens]

I am a Sauvignon Blanc drinker...in the $25-30 range, I like Cloudy Bay....less expensive everyday, anything from New Zealand, Kim Crawford is good.

[PA2UK]

Right now, I'm really liking Jacob's Creek Riesling.

Jacob’s Creek - Welcome To Our Place

[Northwoods Voyager]

Wenwood Farm Winery, Missouri: Creek Bed Red. A sweet light red wine. Under $12.00!!!

[SookieStackhouse]

Red or White depending on my mood (and YES I am cheap)

White: Chardonnay (Yellow Tail is my favorite brand)

Red: Pinot Noir (The Little Penguin is my favorite brand)

[TN Tin Man]

Central New York has some excellent wines.... Lake Niagara ~ Hammondsport ... The Biltmore in Asheville N.C has some excellent wines...

Need to put dollar amounts... their are some excellent wines in the $5--$25 range. If you don't mind unscrewing a cap..

[§AB]

I only drink sweet wine.

[Vichel]

Red's my favourite - big reds, not the light fruity ones. Australia's are predominantly full-bodied "Big Aussie Reds" so there's no problem finding a good one of those here.

My favourites are Shiraz & Cabernet Sauvignon, and blends of those. Penfold's out of South Australia makes very good wines - Koonunga Hill is a good drop, at a good price. Here it's about the $15 mark but I always buy them on special for about $10/bottle. I've seen it at Trader Joe's in San Diego for about $10.

GSM is also a nice blend: Grenache, Shiraz & Mouverdre. Grant Burge does a nice one of those. As does Henschke (Henry's Hill).

South Australia makes the best Australian red wines as far as I'm concerned - any wine I really like comes from South Australian vineyards 99% of the time: Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, etc.

As for whites, I'm liking pretty much anything out of New Zealand: Oyster Bay, Villa Maria, Crowded House.

Corks are pretty much out of fashion here in Oz and NZ. They're definitely not a sign of cheap wines anymore. 15% of wines end up "corked", which is a crying shame when you're talking about an expensive wine. Screw caps have about a 0% fail rate. And no worrying about whether you've got a corkscrew available anymore.

[Suzanne45]

Prefer the dry reds--Cab and/or Bogle Merlot

[TampaKaren]

I prefer the French reds and German whites.