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My wife and I are oenophiles. But unless we’re in a social setting stick strictly to 1/4 of a bottle each, a night, drinking with dinner. We usually cook dinner to cover two nights, eating leftovers on the second, so one bottle of wine chosen to pair with dinner also covers two nights.
I love white Bordeaux, red Burgundy, and top Riesling from the Rheingau, those are for rare, special occasions given cost.
Among my favorite wines I would not feel irresponsible drinking at home on a weekend evening:
Pinot Noir from the Willamette Valley (and in particular its Eola-Amity Hills AVA) in Oregon
Chenin Blanc from Jasnières
Muscadet from the better producers
Tannat from Uruguay
Crémant du Jura (cc: sparkling wine for @mrvanillasky)
Badisch Spätburgunder
Riesling from the Pfalz
Barberra from the Piedmont
Assyrtiko from Santorini
Alsatian Gewürztraminer
Austrian Grüner Veltliner
Pinot Blanco from the Alto-Adige*
*Used to be part of Austria, so many of these Italian producers have names like Tiefenbrunner.
On weeknights, Costco bats about .500 on its Kirkland Signature offerings relative to price. On the very low end, their $5 Italian Pinot Grigio is drinkable when served very cold in the summer, which given its price, is all anyone tethered to reality could ask. We’ve tried most of their offerings and usually stick to the better half of their mass produced white label wines.
Really wholesome situation. I like sparkling wines since they can be quite cheap and still be great.
Does a quarter of a bottle get either of you buzzed in the slightest or is it mostly for the taste? Great list, saving it.
Since we stick to a quarter bottle, each, on the supermajority of evenings, it still does deliver a light buzz. Technically, industry standard is five glasses of wine in the standard 750 ml bottle, so we’re drinking 187.5 ml versus 150 ml.
On the sparkling wine front, there has been a lot of terrible German Sekt produced over the decades but things have improved in recent, so there is now good value to be had as it still has a bit of stigma from the old days in export markets. We recently purchased a very nice bottle and are waiting to open it; we quite like all of our neighbors except one, and their home was just listed. Going to pop the cork once we learn it’s been sold.
And here is a famous sommelier, relative to the wine world, reviewing a bunch of the aforementioned Costco Kirkland Signature wines. The $10 seasonal Old Vine Zinfandel isn’t mentioned but is a favorite of ours.
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