# Your favorite red wines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** wine\ **Created:** [November 3, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319 "2010-11-03T12:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319/21 "2010-11-04T03:27:11Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > \*A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain. > > ``` > Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour. > > Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding. > > Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat. > > Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.* > > ``` 😃 Funny! Obviously anyone that knows even a shred about wine knows that Australia has become a leading quality (and in some cases, dreck quantity) producer of many wines. Speaking of which, and to dovetail back into the OP, Australia is a very good place to start trying lower acid red wines, particularly Shiraz, because so many of the primary regions have such warm growing seasons, which _really_ influences the finished product. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319/22 "2010-11-04T05:20:37Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I’ve also never had a Cote du Rhone I didn’t like. +1 As for brands, our usual wine around the house is [La Vieille Ferme](http://www.vineyardbrands.com/Aspx/Producer.aspx?id=lvf) Côtes du Ventoux (an appellation in Côtes du Rhône) Rouge. In my area it is fairly common and about $US 7-10 per bottle ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319/23 "2010-11-04T05:24:29Z")
Manage a Trois is a nice wine, and it’s usually $9-$13 a bottle or so. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319/24 "2010-11-04T05:27:34Z")
Just found something that may be of help: [Wine Welfare](http://winewelfare.com/2010/05/la-vieille-ferme-cotes-du-ventoux/). ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319/25 "2010-11-04T20:17:18Z")
Listen to **Glory** for she speaks truth. Layer Cake Shiraz is very nice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-red-wines/559319.md?page=1)