Yellow Tail Shiraz or bust!

[CleverCynic]

But, cabernet sauvignon for off weeks.

[willingtocope]

Bought two bottles Thursday. Gonna have them with Alton Brown ribs this weekend. (I also bought a bottle Wild Vines Peach Chardonay as a backup). I'll be interested to see if they traveled well from Australia to Iowa...

[admin]

Gross, blech, ick. That stuff's awful!

(just my opinion.) :)

[willingtocope]

Like I said before, I've had both really good and really bad. Depends on how it got shipped, I think.

Since this wine is for my son's inlaws (they brought the last wine...in a box), I'm thinking it probably doesn't matter much. I've also got a bottle from a local Iowa winery to try...

[CleverCynic]

Come on!!! That's a great moderately priced table wine. You must have gotten a bad bottle or something or drank orange juice before trying it.

It's the only thing I drink by the bottle. Everything else I drink by the boxload, primarily because it comes from a spicket on the side of the box :oops:


Strictly speaking as a local expert, it has a nice bookay.

[willingtocope]

Oh yeah, and I made the Brazing Liquid for the Alton Brown ribs using a bottle of Polka Dot Reisling. I did enjoy the last bottle (I actually drank that one), and I'm curious to see what it will do to the ribs. A little more sweetness in the glaze maybe...

In case you're interested, here's the rib recipe...

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_11125,00.html?rsrc=search

[Laplander]

Come on!!! That's a great moderately priced table wine. You must have gotten a bad bottle or something or drank orange juice before trying it. Strictly speaking as a local expert, it has a nice bookay.

Nothing against the "critter wines", but there are SOOOOOO many other nice wines out there that are not that much more expensive. Everyone jumped on the Yellow Tail train several years ago, and while it was great to have new people drinking wine for the first time, half the fun is finding new wines to enjoy. I'm sitting at the computer now nursing a bottle of Church Block, a Cab/Shiraz/Merlot blend that is absolutely wonderful. I think retail is around $15.00. If that is too much, try some of the lesser known names. Douglas Green from South Africa makes some nice Sauv Blancs and Leasingham from Australia is another wine that can be bought fairly inexpensively.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

[admin]

Sorry, every time I've had it, it's been pretty awful. And as the last poster pointed out - you don't have to spend a fortune to get a better bottle. Try Lindeman's Shiraz - it's $7.99 and just won awards.

Know thy wine.

[willingtocope]

So...my theory is confirmed. Its the travel that does it. Two bottles of Yellow Tail Shiraz bought at the same store but from different shelves. Had them with ribs yesterday. We opened the first bottle...sampled it, and poured it down the drain. Opened the second, and it was delightful. Just a hint of sweetness, no overpowering aftertaste.

I'm not at all sure how to get around it, but, if you're going to drink something from across the pond, you take your chances on it getting cooked in transit.

[Laplander]

So...my theory is confirmed. Its the travel that does it. Two bottles of Yellow Tail Shiraz bought at the same store but from different shelves. Had them with ribs yesterday. We opened the first bottle...sampled it, and poured it down the drain. Opened the second, and it was delightful. Just a hint of sweetness, no overpowering aftertaste.

I'm not at all sure how to get around it, but, if you're going to drink something from across the pond, you take your chances on it getting cooked in transit.


Actually it's not just from across the pond. Anytime wine is transported improperly and gets hot or stored incorrectly, ie the bottle is left standing up and the cork dries out, will also have bad wine. That's in addition to any wine that is "corked", wine that has TCA either thru the cork, most likely, or some other source at the winery. I'm trying to recall the exact percentage, but I want to say it was 5-10% of all wine was contaminated with TCA. So you take a chance everytime you buy wine that it might be bad. I am pretty anal about the way my wine is cellared and have all but screamed when a special wine I've had stored turned out to be bad.:evil:

That being said, Yellow Tail is an inferior bottle of wine. If you really want to find some great wines at reasonable prices, have your local retailer let you know when the wholesaler is running a promo on some of their higher end wines. As a former wine wholesaler I can tell you that when numbers need to be made, or we were getting a new vintage, we would cut deals that were CRAZY. Stuff that was normally 40 -50 retail would suddenly be available for 15-20. One guy I knew would have me tip him off when something like that was going on and he would tell the store how many cases he wanted.

Big savings + great wine = xangelx

Cheers

[CleverCynic]

Your MOMS inferior.




Sorry... couldn't help it... had a Napolean Dynamite moment there...

I'm going back to wine with a handle you can hook your thumb through. When do we get to champagnes so I can extoll the virtues of Andre??

[admin]

Your MOMS inferior.




Sorry... couldn't help it... had a Napolean Dynamite moment there...

I'm going back to wine with a handle you can hook your thumb through. When do we get to champagnes so I can extoll the virtues of Andre??

Ahhhhh.....champagne is a wine, so go ahead and post.

[tmac01]

For the price Yellowtail Shiraz is hard to beat :)

[CleverCynic]

Can I get a Hallelujah?

... and I saw SIDEWAYS twice... so.. you know... I know

[Laplander]

Your MOMS inferior.




Sorry... couldn't help it... had a Napolean Dynamite moment there...

I'm going back to wine with a handle you can hook your thumb through. When do we get to champagnes so I can extoll the virtues of Andre??


That's fine, I might just have to throw a steak at your face when I have an Uncle Rico moment though. LOL


If you are content drinking critter wine, then by all means indulge yourself, I'm not trying to put anyone down, I'm just trying to let you know there is better out there for not a lot more money.

Since you saw Sidways twice, I'm sure you're aware of the irony in his choice of a 1961 Cheval Blanc...since, you know....you know.

Now go take your decroded piece of crap wine and drink it. :mrgreen:

[lovebug5]

It's the only thing I drink by the bottle. Everything else I drink by the boxload, primarily because it comes from a spicket on the side of the box :oops:

Strictly speaking as a local expert, it has a nice bookay.

After I pour my glass of Franzia, I enjoy swirling it around my cup while sitting on my porch swing. That's when I begin discussing the type of barrel that is used. Bear in mind that I do this while wearing only underwear. 8]

[virtualrn]

Honestly-bleah!!! Here is my experence. I swim from Alcatraz to the Aquatic Center annually, because, I am crazy....so 2 years ago, it is a Friday night and I am carbo loading like crazy-but drinking Yellowtail Shiraz as well because I am old and what the hell-I only have to finish this race.....wake up projectile vomiting.....crab cakes vs shiraz....swam that damn thing....don't want to ever revisit yellowtail, mates!

[mwhizz]

::travolta::

LOVE THE YELLOWTAIL!!!! doing the happy dance!