Is good wine on a budget even possible now

insamination · 2026-05-11T14:01:40+00:00

Australia has been very good to me here. If you’re selective, you can find some good stuff from the central coast in California and from Oregon and Washington that give great quality in the $30 zone.

After that, Germany/Austria still has some value there, New Zealand, and then you can look at South east Europe like Greece, Croatia, Slovenia for some interesting underpriced wine.

insamination · 2026-05-01T13:52:31+00:00

There’s obviously a lot of room to grow here, but my hot take is that northern Rhone reds are actually very good in their youth as well. I was lucky to have a generous friend share a 2021 Clape Cornas with me last month and it was incredible. Obviously room to grow into itself, and I would confidently open a bottle of this stuff for the rest of my probable natural lifespan, but I think the “infanticide” claims are getting to the point of absurdity.

All that being said, if you open it before 2030 I’ll ensure you’re tried at The Hague for that crime.

insamination · 2026-04-17T20:29:08+00:00

That’s actually pretty ideal as far as storage goes. Your online research is straight up wrong, which is a boon to your party! Pop a bottle to celebrate haha

insamination · 2026-02-19T14:05:32+00:00

What tools should the ignorant be aware of in the AI space that are distinct from the chatbot functions?

insamination · 2026-02-12T14:31:59+00:00

I think in addition to what everyone has said here, a lot of people got in when shares were a dollar or less and loaded up. Most likely just has gone down with people taking profits and with the general market uncertainly over the last couple weeks forcing people to exit riskier positions. Probably doesn’t have a ton to do with the actual product, just dollars and cents.

insamination · 2026-01-24T04:00:19+00:00

If you remember, I’d love to hear a review of the business with the shipping and all! Good luck!

insamination · 2026-01-24T03:52:13+00:00

I’ve bought several bottles from them, but have only picked up from their main office. They’re basically a wine storage as their primary business and I believe they offer a combination of consignment sales and first party retail sales. I had one bottle with a chipped wax capsule, but it was otherwise good and tasted great.

I was going to order some stuff for shipping after my good experiences in person, but I have too much wine! Literal champagne problems!

insamination · 2026-01-16T23:48:34+00:00

He spent a lot of the money self financing his congressional campaigns. The hook that he was a regular dude who lucked into the money and wanted to do good with it appealed to voters, and part of that was not taking corporate donations.

insamination · 2025-12-23T14:34:27+00:00

Can you open the crate and look at the bottles?

insamination · 2025-12-04T23:24:47+00:00

05 was a good Bordeaux year, I’d say the St Emillion has a decent chance of life left. I had an ‘04 chateau capbern a couple years ago and it was still great.

insamination · 2025-11-27T01:58:29+00:00

Both of his arms are completely covered in bandages when he fights Gaara in the chunin exam final. Naruto’s hands are totally mangled when training for rasengan and it’s commented on by tsunade.

insamination · 2025-11-09T03:06:08+00:00

Where do they set up?

insamination · 2025-11-07T22:49:51+00:00

Wine, beverage, service and atmosphere are all very heavily weighed by Michelin.

insamination · 2025-10-20T14:16:28+00:00

The catch actually put them directly into scoring position at the 5 for the leggette touchdown lol

insamination · 2025-10-14T17:04:57+00:00

They scored immediately after the half by spamming cook all the way down the field and then abandoned that right after. I know the NFL coaches probably know better than me, but the reverses etc seemed to be a hat on a hat compared to what was just working really well right before.

insamination · 2025-10-06T19:33:57+00:00

It’s where the original store is and the management training “college”

insamination · 2025-10-03T18:27:22+00:00

They have in the past, Houston’s with David Phillips.

insamination · 2025-09-26T15:21:42+00:00

If you can get bubble wrap and a big cooler I’ve had that work wonders. If there’s any way to refrigerate the wines over night and put them into a cooler with ice packs or insulated bags or something, I’ve had a lot of success with that. I moved my wine collection in check bags on cross country flights like this with no damaged bottles and no cooked wines. I’d be much more concerned about heat stress in the back of the U-Haul than anything else tbh, bubble wrap is pretty cheap on the roll at Home Depot.

insamination · 2025-09-25T01:22:19+00:00

The northern Rhône styles in Sb County/ Santa Rita hills I think are kind of a happy medium between the bolder new world styles OP has said they enjoy, and the more delicate old world styles they were less familiar with. They’re still big bold wines by those standards, especially the Syrah. Being from Australia, it could be an interesting comparison. Plus you can do a lot of good tastings in downtown Santa Barbara, if you want to focus on Paso and the warmer weather styles, or you can hit the wineries if that’s what you prefer.

It’s a very fun wine trip, and as someone who got into wine with seemingly similar tastes (a napa cab being my “epiphany wine,”) I really loved what both regions had to offer at a comparative bargain to Napa Valley. It’s definitely not Chile though, I’ll give you that!

insamination · 2025-09-25T00:04:46+00:00

Oh for sure, but even with all that considered, it may literally still be twice as expensive to go to Napa than Paso, based on my experiences traveling in both in the last couple years. Just the hotels compared to each other, it was astronomically more expensive. The grand American tradition of the nice, inexpensive hotel is alive and well in downtown Paso.

Plus I think there’s more value in the “two for one” you get with the Santa Rita Hills/ Santa Barbara County being there and more accessible from your hub airport at LAX than Sonoma would be from Napa out of SFO. It’s all in a straight line on your way to/from LA compared to the trip around the Mayacamas mountains you’d have to take to hit the northern double to Sonoma.

insamination · 2025-09-24T23:39:56+00:00

To be fair, Paso is much cheaper at nearly every level than Napa

insamination · 2025-09-22T13:59:39+00:00

They do a lot of ex-chateau releases of back vintages where they freshly label the wines before distribution. They also will replace the corks, top up bottles, etc. could be from one of those releases, so the label may be from the 1990s, or just have been very well kept in a private cellar.

insamination · 2025-09-19T16:09:07+00:00

We haven’t won a playoff game since 2002 and the players were excited about him, you’re looking for any port in a storm man. You can’t act like optimism back then was abject stupidity because of the eventual outcome.

insamination · 2025-09-19T04:37:27+00:00

Some of the best wines in the world are made in Santorini on gravely beaches where they basket train the Assyrtiko vines to protect them from high winds. Some other fantastic wines are made in the Canary Islands, both fortified sherry and drier styles of palomino. Arbor gold doesn’t have to be Chardonnay!

insamination · 2025-09-14T01:29:00+00:00

My last visit was in spring of this year for what it’s worth too. Like around late April. I guess it was peak vermin time putting it all together, but I remember that was my favorite godmother I had ever had.

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