Red Wine

Malbec or Shiraz.

Are there any restaurants around you that do wine tasting? I would check around. Everyone has a different sense of taste, and a Malbec I may love, someone else does not.

Wine tasting is a great way to find just the right red for you.

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If you don't mind spending approx $75 or so Turley is the best red wine for me. Worth every penny!

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All of it! Just kidding -I'm actually really into red wine, so I have a big list, but I'll only put a few here. I'm a big fan of California reds, but I do enjoy Italian, Australian and South American reds -I just don't find nearly as many of them that I like. French reds always disappoint me -even the really pricey ones.

My all-time favorite is 2006 Silver Oak (Napa) Cabernet Sauvignon. The Alexander Valley version is good, but not as good and other years are the same way. Be prepared though -it's usually over $100 per bottle! Someone else mentioned Turley, and it's a great wine too as well as Camus. All three are expensive.

My favorite current "go-to" bottle is Sebastiani Pinot Noir or their Cabernet. It's quite good for $11-$15 per bottle. Fat Bastard Cabernet is also good at that price point. If you want less expensive, I enjoy McManus Cabernet and 97 lb. Rooster Zinfandel and Cabernet.

I'm not much of a Merlot drinker, but a common and VERY good Merlot is the Kendall Jackson -$12 -$20 per bottle depending.

My FAVE that's affordable, but still pricey enough to be a semi-splurge and not something I drink every weekend is Rosenblum Vineyards Annette's Reserve Zinfandel. Instead of the typical Rosenblum golden label, it's a dark charcoal. I love oakey, smokey wines with a tobacco undertone and this one smells like an oak barrel and tastes like autumn smoke (in a good way). It's truly superb at $30 per bottle -and they sell it at Trader Joe's here.

I like a good Cabernet Franc when I can find it. For a year my absolute fave was Helena View, and then they all corked.

Earthquake Zin and Seven Deadly Zins are also good.

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I prefer red zinfindels and pinot noirs. I like all kinds but those are my favorites. Pinot's have the highest concentration of resveratrol of all of the red grapes.

If you like to splurge, find a bottle of Frank's Family Vineyard. The zin is magnificient, about $36 a bottle. For a good all around zin, 7 Deadly Zins is another nice wine, from $15-18 depending on the store. Our Costco carries that one.

Trader Joe's carries some really great wines in the $7-10 range. I don't care for the now 3 buck 'Chucks', wines for $3 a bottle. They taste like they cost $3 a bottle.

I am always trying new wines and also have a hard time remembering which ones I like best. But, most times it doesn't matter. Good luck and have fun! D.

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My husband loves Cabernet Sauvignon. St. Francis is one of his favorites. It's around $20 a bottle.

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any chianti will do... it is a great dinner wine..

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manage etrois - probably spelled that wrong but oh, well, it good wine!

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I like a pinot noir best but also like shiraz or syrahh (sp?).

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Red Zin and Cabernet Sauvignon, my favorites. I try to buy as many local brands as possible. I always say I'm gonna start a log to jot down the name of each and my impressions but I never do it. I cook a lot so I feel like I should know more than I do, but when I go to the wine shop I can never seem to remember which ones I've tried, sigh. (perhaps if I stuck to the '1 glass' rule, Id remember more clearly, tehehe)

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Depends on how much you want to spend. We've spent as little as $13 a bottle for a good cab or merlot by Sterling to $150 a bottle for Caymus.

They range in flavors and prices. We tend to favor merlots and cabs. Sterling, Kendall Jackson, J Lohr, Blackstone, Rodney Strong are a few we like.

Find a good wine store with knowledgable staff to help you. I am not familiar with the Arlington area so I can't help you there.

I go to Market Street, Whole Foods, S&K in Plano. We have a daily wine in the black box that is not bad for a daily wine.

Good luck.

A nice Pinot Noir from the Pacific Northwest, preferably Oregon or Washington.

We like sweet wines so we are now into

Llano's Sweet Red---YUM

Malbec for steak night and pinot noir occasionally.