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i was looking through some pictures last night and i saw one that i had taken in a fun, traditional, loud restaurant in budapest (it was with a packaged tour though). the name of the restaurant was something like weinbottiel and YES i took a pic of it!!

what about you guys? any recommendations? hopefully we'll all be able to drop by wherever it is!

ahh memories.. mm.. the food.. the house wine.. so delicious..

I think this is the same way I was thinking of it - I've had some really expensive wine and some really vinatge stuff, but I can't remember the names. It was good, tho', all of them.

My favorite wine I've had lately as the house wine at Cal Pep in Barcelona. It went well with all of the food, the place was great and it was incredible to sit at the bar and watch all of the food being prepared. If there weren't 20 people waiting to sit in this little place, I could have stayed there all night.

A guy at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan bought my friend and me a half bottle of the 1990 Opus One. We sat and watched the sun set over Staten Island and happily sipped on our $125 glasses of wine. Needless to say, my budget doesn't allow for that kind of indulgence.

Once my boss invited me and a colleague out with a client, and he brought along a $200 bottle of vintage wine. And I must say it was pretty good wine, but a that price I'd expect it to be at least ten times better than your average $20 bottle of wine. And it wasn't.

Yeah, I have to agree with you Buddha. The quality doesn't rise in accordance to price. A $20 bottle is a good little splurge I make every once in a while. And of course, the company you keep is 90% of the battle. The little bar we frequented in Copacabana, Bolivia was warm and cozy and the staff friendly. I drank cheap, warmed wine and met fabulous people...makes the wine more delicious in retrospect.

I had a really nice wine in Wienna called Blaufrankisch and was the 2003 Klassik. And I love wine and have done my fair share of tasting. My date and I both LOVED it. Fabulous!

I'm just beginning to learn about Italian wine....i was always a quantity over quality type of guy....but now i have a choice of fantastic red wines straight from the vinyards of Asti/Alba/Monferrato all under 4euro....& I'm lovin trying them all....ive even bought some Barolo, which in England is like champagne prices, but here its not....

...however I think all my internal organs are now purple....

The best (local) wine that I've ever had was in Normandy, France. Its not a typical french wine region... but still it was soooo good. I really wish I could remember the name.... anyone have any ideas? Something that might have started with an a?

you'll never find out michelle....I spent mmost of my childhood spending 4 weeks a year camping with my family in normandy & other parts of northern france & there are hundreds of little vinyards...

Ive come to believe that if you drink a wine near where it was made...it tastes the best...ship it somewhere else...it tastes like vinegar...

agree with Stiv..taste it where it is made. In general I love the wines from the little know Sonoma Valley in California..close to the bigger cousin Napa.

There I found this great wine something called Dolcetta...best bottle i ever had with a friend who had made some couscous and shrimp to go with it...wow..still have the lingering taste in my mouth even after a year.

I'm not a big fan of alcohol but have tasted great Malbec from Mendoza, and in my fridge is a bottle of white wine (also from Mendoza) waiting for a special moment to be opened

Gabriela

Some of the best wine I've ever had was from the Mosel River, in Germany. The rieslings from Germany are amazing wines, although the ones that are usually imported into Canada are of the "sweet and cheap" variety. Not so over there--if you ever find yourself near the Mosel anytime between May and October, go find a Strassenfest--there is one going on somewhere along the Mosel every weekend--and experience the wine. And the food. And then the wine again...

California, Mosby Sangiovese. I forget what year. I have a wine notebook that I don't write in. I think it was 97 drunken in 99 or so. Heck, I don't remember.

But wow. I've had a lot of awesome wines here on the Central Coast of CA that the east coast pays 100 dollars and up for. I live in a good area for that. Spoiled! We can get em for 20-40 bucks. Sometimes like 14.99 on sale.

Best wine ever was at Les Fous d'en Face in the 4th in Paris. It was a Puligny-Montrachet. I can't remember the vintage or, for that matter, any of the details of the bottle, but it was AMAZING. The best part of eating at this particular restaurant is that they know EXACTLY what wine you want, before EVEN YOU know what you want! ;-) Try it sometime -- if you don't go crazy the prices are reasonable and the staff is great.

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Originally posted by Sor Raimunda:
and in my fridge is a bottle of white wine

I opened it, not so bad, but I still prefer Malbec

Gabriela

For me it was a homemade organic chianti in tuscany.

It helped that we were given a bottle as part of a very frienldy welcome, but I gladly bought another 15-20 bottles over the course of the two weeks.
Just fantastic.

P.S. I am not an alcoholic it was just that good!