DiningBuzz! - ONLY SIX wines for the rest of your life! What do you choose?

If you had to pick six wines to be restricted for rest of your life (for all meals and for all occasions) what do you choose?

Mix and match your half-case as you wish.


My choices:

Dows Vintage Port
Krug Grande Cuvee
Ridge Geyserville
Vieux Telegraph Chateauneuf du Pape
Archery Summitt Dundee Hills Oregon Pinot Noir
Kistler Chardonnay

Can't be done. :eek:

If I may generalize:

Expensive $125 +
Maybach
Schrader

Affordable and enjoyable under $40
Bedrock
Carlisle

A type of wine
CdP

A sweetie

a red burgundy
a white burgundy
a Rheingau Riesling
california or oz cab
oz shiraz blend
maybe a fine california chard. or a sangovesie. would have to think about #6.

We can't even limit it to six wines on the table for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

I'm pretty certain on any given day my answer will be the last six wines we pulled up from the cellar to drink.

I am SO glad there is something I don't need to spend money on (there are certainly enough things that I rationalize that I do!). This is one of those cases (har!): I'd much prefer Diet Dr Pepper if I were forced to choose.

This concludes this plebian moment; now back to your regularly scheduled topic :D

Cannot be done.

Wineries and winemaking style come and go, not to mention sub-par vintages - do you get a substitute, if, i.e., Kistler goes broke and sells its name to TJ's and starts selling Five Dollar Kiss?

I'm not going to play this game. Especially not after the past two days on Alaska Airlines burping the F selection :o

My choices:

Dows Vintage Port
Krug Grande Cuvee


^^ to the OP on his first two choices. Stupendous.

Cannot be done....
I'm not going to play this game.

Of course it can be done. :p

It's a silly internet thread and, just as in life, you can come back and alter your choices when your tastes or the wines you've chosen have changed. :D

;)

I agree with most everybody else, this kind of depends on what you have in your cellar at any moment. Often we'll buy several cases of some wine we think is great, then we'll get tired of it and give a lot away. Right now we're drinking a lot of these

Croze-Hermitage - Alain Graillot
L'Ocre Rouge Pinot Noir - VDT
Nuit St. George and Gevrey-Chambertin - Moillard
Monte Da Cal Reserva, and
Solo Quinta Recas, our only white.


a red burgundy

If you had to pick a typical village appellation do you have a preference? We're sort of working our way through the villages since we live just across the border and just drive over to buy. Recently we've bought Pommard, Volnay, Santenay, Fixin, Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne Romanee, Nuits-St. George, Savigny-Les-Beaune, and Alexe-Corton. For me (remember not looking at Grand Cru or Premier Cru), I kind of prefer the Nuits-St. George and my least favorite would be Fixin, at least of what we've tried so far.

We definitely prefer French. I don't know how many Italian wines we try and they just never grab us the same way. Doesn't matter if it's Chianti, Nero D'Avola, Barolo, Valpolicella, Brunello di Montalcino, Barbera, etc. We drink a bottle and it's quickly forgotten.

As always, YMMV