A few $10 wines

[Analyst]

Hess makes good wine throughout their range; some of the Hess Collection wines are outstanding. I also like the Gloria Ferrer though am not a big fan of the Piper Sonoma. The Rancho Zabaco Zins (made by Gallo, but so what?) are good and Columbia Crest tends to be reliable as well.

Safeway, though? Even though it's nearby, their selection has been shrinking, at least at my local stores, nor are their prices very good. In SF, how about The Wine Club and/or BevMo?

[jrobb83]

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i have no business responding in this thread, cuz I know jack about wines, but I will say that all ive ever had is sub $10 whine, and lastnight I had a bottle of yellowtail($5.95) and it was the best whine ive ever had.

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Which type did you have? I love the cab, and tried the cab-merlot mix on friday and it was delicious. I brought it to the get-together I went to and it was all gone by the time I went back for my second glass [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

[smoore]

Yellowtail Shiraz. I'm a redneck, YMMV.

[Ulysses]

I'm a couple of blocks from The Wine Club (great!) and K&L (excellent!). I buy from both of those places, and the staff there can recommend something great in any style and price range. I grocery shop at Safeway, though, and they have a pretty good selection of good reasonably priced wines.

[Voltron87]

good idea for a thread, im going to try some of these.

[HDPM]

agree w/ most of this. I like hess wines pretty well and agree w/ you and ElD on the others, except columbia crest. I had a dirt cheap cab from them recently that was good cheap wine, but had a nasty merlot. I am becoming leery of washington reds the more I try. Some I like of course tho.

In the 10 range I have found a bunch of wines I like, usually california blends. Marietta, the menage a trois from folie a deux, the rosenblum vintner mix zin, stuff like that. Or some of the australians. The cheap washington ones are getting pushed down the list.

[Ulysses]

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Please post a trip report after you drink the Clos du Bois shiraz.

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Was quite nice. A little dryer and less fruity than I expected, but I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I also cracked open a bottle of 1990 Dom Perignon last night (see, Victor, I give the family the good stuff too!). That was really good.

[Shillx]

Sorry to bump but I thought I would comment.

Bought 5 bottles of Piper and 1 of Clos du Bois (red) for my birthday. The red was for dinner and the champange was for the pre-pary. Both are awesome dude. Thanks for the suggestions. The are certainly worth the $70 for the six case. Cheers!

Brad

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]