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Old 08-23-2015, 08:22 PM
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Jeff we started the evening with a Magnum of 2012 DeLille Chaleur Estates Blend to go with Smoked Turkey and later Caviar followed by a Quilceda Creek 2011. The QC had no right to be that good. As you know I'm a Red Mountain kind of guy so a killer Columbia Valley is very nice!
Both of those are outstanding wines, Bill, and represent some of the best of Washington State without question! The QC Cabernet is a very once in a long time / special occasion purchase for me given the high price point and exclusivity. I did manage to pick up a couple of the 2012 QC CVRs recently that I'll be hanging on to for a while!
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As a profesional winemaker here in the Napa Valley I have told many folks, price is not a measure of quality but a measure of expectation. There are wines at $25.00 as well as $350.00 that are a good value. Unfortunately the higher priced good value wines are rare. Kent Price, Shadybrook, Red Cap, all Napa Valley Cabernet sauvignons for example, all over deliver at their price point.
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The biggest issue I find with inexpensive wines is vintage to vintage consistency. When I find a gem that becomes capable of being a daily drinker, it often changes with the next vintage. Sometimes up, sometimes down but change it does. Our group of daily drinkers rotates regularly because of this.

And don't get me started on restaurants and wines
Could not agree more. Even within bottles in a case. We are finishing up a case of Languedoc red and have found two bottles that were close to being bad. Case was pulled from the shelf at our LWS, so is likely that the bad bottles came from a case that was in the sun or too cold for too long or whatever. But, one never knows.

Have to agree about the Napa Cabs. Probably the most consistently good wines available at a reasonable (or not) price.
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I am not a huge wine drinker but for the past 5 years I do enjoy at least a bottle a week. Never knowing what you get, no matter the price, I was lucky to find my taste buds are satisfied with just about any Rioja from Spain! Love Rioja and have usually never been disappointed. There is something about Rioja region of northern Spain and my taste buds agreeing with each other.
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Indeed. We were introduced to some excellent Rioja reds while in Spain last month. We brought home a couple of bottles that we are saving for an 'occasion' in the next few weeks.
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