best value

I am curious why nobody has mentioned the proverbial home of Cabernet Franc (a.k.a. Bouchet) in (a) the Bordeaux - where it makes up as much as half of total plantings and (b) Val de Loire west of Paris where it is the...

Juice on the Block" will be a collection of content about wine at auction. There are a good deal of good deals to be had (particularly now, Autumn '09) at auction, and it will be part of the goal of this group to track...

Our local big liquor store chain who is generally pretty unbeatable for prices on wine, beer and liquor, had a BV tasting at one of their locations tonight. It was quite far away, but I knew they were including the...

Goose. Each year "Food and Wine" puts out a buying guide. It features every major region, and each of their sub-regions, it highlights "emerging regions" (I think Ohio may have been included in last year's edition), and...

Fullbottle do you have any suggestions on a good value sparkling shiraz? I am not familiar with the style but don't want to spend $70-80 to try something I may or may not like. Best Regards

Mario - interesting. I have not seen any Rumble vintage Sparkling Shirazes, ... "Original" is one of the best value fro money around. Phillip - the society is a small one - "The Metropolitan Wine & Food Society of...

I agree with you schellbe and read the very first posting on this topic. I ... Electronics, etc) have a 'best value product" and based on what? there is also an element of perception on everything... although in food and...

As a statistician, I am often tempted to perform some kind of arcane analysis of scores that informs us once and for all time. But let us pander to our philosophical instincts instead. My experience spans a fairly...

Thanks for the welcome guys. Philip, unless you have been to these fair shores, I suspect you have not seen our best sparkling shiraz, some of which command a $A70-80 price tag and would stand up for notice in any wine...

Not really. I built the room pretty quickly but spent more time thinking about shelving and figuring the space needed for bins, for shelves, for racks, etc., vs what I could store on them. I got all kinds of...