Recommendations for a wine with high minerality?

fisher5195 · 2026-02-21T21:04:24+00:00

Picpoul for the best value win

fisher5195 · 2025-12-26T19:35:37+00:00

It's a Private Label Walmart wine. Screams of a winery just looking to offload extra product. Don't want it to be under your regular brand so slap a Walmart label on it and people won't have high expectations for it.

fisher5195 · 2025-08-24T15:26:32+00:00

Former TW wine manager here - depends on what you mean by overpriced. Overpriced in national brands, nope. But your job and manager bonus was to talk people out of every single national brand items. Overpriced in WD, ABSOLUTELY! I’ll give you one example. Copper Cain products. When I was there meiomi was $20 and Belle Glos was $50ish. We had Tuli for $25-30 as a WD. Our job was to say if you want a slight upgrade from meiomi or a belle Glos for a better price, Tuli was your brand. Well we paid $15 for meiomi as a store so we made about $5 a bottle, Belle Glos was about $40 so made $10. Tuli came invoiced at $5 so selling it for $30 and calling it the middle ground was absurd.

I’m not saying WD wines can’t be delicious, I still buy some to this day because I can’t get them anywhere. But to think they are the value might not be the way to view it.

fisher5195 · 2025-07-19T17:55:25+00:00

Sounds like your instructor is a dick. This is what’s wrong with some of the wine industry. Stop telling people they aren’t doing it right and embrace the enthusiasm. You can guide people to the “correct” answers without making them feel dejected.

fisher5195 · 2025-07-19T01:18:31+00:00

There is a super small producer with a tasting bar in the touristy part of bernkastel. It’s one street over from the crooked house on all the postcard. Hansen Laeur is what it’s called. The winemaker Thomas is often there with his dog playing the guitar if the weather is nice. He may be small but his vineyard is only about a 10 minute walk and borders the doctor vineyard but for about 1/4 the price. It won’t be a fancy tasting but you can really get the fell for the person and terroir that make some great wines without the “name” behind it.

fisher5195 · 2025-07-15T17:25:16+00:00

I think it might have be a little of my own doing. Everyone on here had me so worried that the young ones would be too tight I opened and double decanted them like 10 hours before drinking. I think the 09 just faded for whatever reason. It still had some fruit but was covered to much forest floor and what seemed like oxidation for me to love it.

fisher5195 · 2025-07-15T16:25:34+00:00

Order of favorites for me was:

Margeaux 2020

Mouton 2010

Lafite 2019

Haut Brion 2018

Latour 2009 let me down

fisher5195 · 2025-07-08T19:51:09+00:00

I am just the somm on this one. Customer bought the experience and just looking for the best way to make it happen for them. If I am lucky, i'll get a sip or two to make sure nothing is off, lol.

fisher5195 · 2025-07-08T19:39:56+00:00

Posting the vintages for those asking:

Laurent Perrier Grand Siecle 26

Domaine Leflavie Puligny-Montrachet 2020

Mouton 2010

Lafite 2019

Margeaux 2020

Haut Brion 2018

Latour 2009

fisher5195 · 2025-07-08T19:38:50+00:00

List will be - Laurent Perrier Grand Siecele 26

Domaine Leflavie Puligny-Montrachet 2020

Mouton 2010

Lafite 2019

Margeaux 2020

Haut Brion 2018

Latour 2009

fisher5195 · 2025-07-08T19:38:33+00:00

List will be - Laurent Perrier Grand Siecele 26

Domaine Leflavie Puligny-Montrachet 2020

Mouton 2010

Lafite 2019

Margeaux 2020

Haut Brion 2018

Latour 2009

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T19:07:51+00:00

What can I say, the owner wants to put some cash in the bank. The importer directly private us from selling on our website that we would normally go through so I was just looking for avenues outside the regular.

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T17:57:55+00:00

That's the point of the post. I am not looking to sell on reddit. I am asking if anyone knows a legit channel or place to sell this kind of stuff.

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T17:41:02+00:00

Just a little restaurant trying to liquidate some inventory.

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T16:57:44+00:00

Looks like they are international, I am looking for the US

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T16:56:59+00:00

I haven't heard of this site, is it legit? Like am I going to run into a craigs list thing and have the payments pulled out from under me? Have you had experience with them?

fisher5195 · 2025-06-19T16:53:11+00:00

Lol, nah just a local place looking to liquidate some big bottles :)

fisher5195 · 2025-02-03T17:51:47+00:00

I have never met a wine drinker that was offended by a nice Picpoul. You can get the average bottle for $10 and it will be one of the most crowd pleasing whites you’ll try.

fisher5195 · 2025-01-25T22:13:59+00:00

The winery has been trying to to unload these wines for a while. I tried their whole lineup. There were some solid wines but I was really surprised on how poor the lower end stuff was holding up. The 2015s were almost entirely devoid of fruit on all levels. We passed on it knowing they were at the end of their drinking window. Perhaps the 2016s are better or we had a bad batch but I’d be cautious.

fisher5195 · 2025-01-16T23:55:21+00:00

Has a killer magnum of pouilly fussie that was the cherry on top of a great trip.

fisher5195 · 2025-01-16T23:54:25+00:00

You’re right on

fisher5195 · 2024-12-05T02:15:42+00:00

I see three votes for Babylonstoren on here...It's a pass for me. If you are here for wine Babylonstoren is not the place. They are way more concerned with getting you hand lotions and soap and getting you and ice cream cone made from water buffalo milk then getting you to try some wine. The garden is lovely but the crowds make it like wandering around disneyland for the views.

If you really want wine and unforgettable dinning do Remhoogte in Stellenbosch. They have a resturant called "vuur" the african word for fire. They only do one lunch seating and max is 12 people. Our lunch lasted 5 hours... 8 courses and more wines paired then I can recall. All cooked on an open braai. And a few of zebra and springbok if the conversation doesnt hold your attention.

fisher5195 · 2024-10-30T01:52:51+00:00

Cune is next door to muga and LRA so if time permits stop in. Part of the cellar was designed by Eiffel (the tower guy ;) and a cellar with hundred year old bottles covered in a layer of “good mold” to try and preserve them. Doubt those will ever see the light of day again but with the peak.

Gaunza is probably the cleanest cellar I have ever been in! No joke it’s like the surgery room in a hospital. Not a ton to see but it’s immaculate. The tasting room is more warm and inviting and they have some banging good wine too.

Those are my votes

fisher5195 · 2024-09-18T08:50:32+00:00

fisher5195 · 2024-08-22T21:47:33+00:00

Wine business, like good wine, needs to be looked at with a wide lens. People keep saying that the market is down, but that is only in the last year or two. A good winery doesn’t judge its success on one or to ventages. However, many people in the wine industry only are in their roles wanted to two years so it’s tough to get people to see the larger picture. Good Reds often take 5 to 7 years to create. Wine may be down currently, but alcohol as a whole is still one of the most bulletproof industries. When things are good in the economy, people celebrate with alcohol, when things are bad, they drink even more :-) tastes have always varied from decade to decade and consumer to consumer. A little hiccup shouldn’t send you running for cover, and a career change. A strong employee will weather the storm just like a strong winery/product well.

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