It of course is never polite to look a gift horse in the mouth but I will anyways.

My wife came home with a present from a company she works with. A bottle of Saladini Pilastri Rosso Piceno DOC Superiore 2002.

Haven't tasted it. But it is an $8-$10 (U.S.) bottle. Not likely to be a featured wine at a dinner party. But you could always cook with it.

Just because w wine is $8-10 doesn't mean it isn't a nice wine. Since when is the value of something measured only by its price?

i allway's thought if you won't drink it you not cook with it!

Drink it and decide for yourself. Only you can know whether you like it.

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Just because w wine is $8-10 doesn't mean it isn't a nice wine.

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I never said that it wasn't a "nice" wine. Whatever that means. I simply said that it is not likely to be the feature wine at a dinner party. If you know of any $8 Italian Reds that you would feature at a dinner party, let me know.

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i allway's thought if you won't drink it you not cook with it!

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Actually, the old adage is: You shouldn't cook with any wine that you couldn't drink. Not wouldn't drink. This comes from the practice of adding salt to wine to prevent the kitchen staff from drinking it. "Cooking wine" has been salted, and as a result, you can't drink it. So the adage developed to warn people not to use traditional cooking wine to cook with, and instead use "table wine". It has very little to do with the quality of the wine. (Of course you wouldn't use corked or tainted wine either.) If it is drinkable, you can cook with it, irrespective of whether it meets you criteria for personal consumption.

jimmy
must be a slow day at the law office!

Not to be argumentative, but I would have no problems featuring a A Mano Primitivo, Terrale Primitivo, or a Morgante Nero D'Avola at a dinner party, though I might hesitate if it were a wine tasting. My friends aren't high society swells, but they like good wine. And like me, they wouldn't recognize a 100 point wine if it walked in and kicked them in the groin.

And you're quite correct about the cooking wine. Most wines I want to drink, I wouldn't pour in a stew, but I wouldn't put anything in a stew that I wouldn't drink.

Of course, now that I've copped a huge attitude, wouldn't it suck if your wine really was bilgewater?

Don't worry Spencer. You've covered yourself.

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Drink it and decide for yourself

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That, of course, is always the best action.