Wine

[calibrax]

Davey S2 said:

calibrax said:

But my passion is for steak...

How can you be into steak and not drink red wine????

Thats like night without day, the sun without the moon, Barry Chuckle without his brother.

My last meal would be steak and proper hand cut chips with a quality bottle of claret

I will admit that I buy small bottles of red wine (the 35cl ones)... to use for making gravy!

[escargot]

To each, their own. Etc.

[havoc]

calibrax said:

Bebs said:

calibrax said:

So if a wine producer puts wine in one bottle priced at £5 and puts a pretty much identical wine in a different bottle priced at £50 (and I can guarantee that kinda thing does happen - there are plenty of unscrupulous people out there!)

You seem extremely well informed about the wine trade - I mean what with not drinking the stuff and seemingly knowing all about it

I suspect you probably know even far more than me - despite my 25 years in the wine trade.

25 years and you didn't know about this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8520980....

But regardless... as an accountant I know a lot about business, and there are people in every business who will try and rip people off in one way or another. And if you don't believe that then you're living in a dream world!

And I'm an accountant and can spot a fantastic wine from a good wine from an OK wine from a crap wine. I can also tell the difference between Bordeaux and Burgundy, for example...which allegedly use exactly the same ingredients!

With a little exposure it's not difficult, and a genuinely good wine tastes wonderful.


You're a steak man - explain to me why meat isn't 'just meat' and why a £50 Kobe steak is better than a £20 fillet/rib-eye is better than a £5 braising steak! It's the same principle...it takes both interest and exposure to identify the difference, and once you can, you almost NEVER go back to the cheap stuff...


(As an aside, tend to cook fillet or sirloin myself at home, and yet when I had Kobe beef while in Japan last year I was genuinely impressed. But you do need a good (£7-10) medium/full bodied red to partner steak properly - syrah/shiraz is usually a good accompaniment.)