for me right now its Benziger cabernet or Beringer Knight's Valley Cab.

Since I rarely buy more than half a dozen bottles of anything, my "everyday" wine changes all the time. Right now it's 1999 Sterling NVCS.

2001 Paringa Shiraz

2002 T-Vine Grenache is probably my "everyday" wine right now.

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AIM: Drunken Mariachi

We have a wide variety of everydays. Currently:

2002 Paringa Shiraz
1999 Marquis De Riscal Reserva Rioja
Variety of Cotes du Rhone
Toscola Chianti

I wish I could say I had an everyday wine but my need to try new stuff usaually takes me away from some of the wines I enjoy. I guess these would work.

00 Fransican cab
02 castle rock pn
01 liberty school cab
01 seghesio zin

With you on the Castle Rock, I also like the Rex Goliath Pinot as a cheapie that has some character.

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Originally posted by Wineroute:
I wish I could say I had an everyday wine but my need to try new stuff usaually takes me away from some of the wines I enjoy. I guess these would work.

00 Fransican cab
02 castle rock pn
01 liberty school cab
01 seghesio zin

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I try new stuff but always have a few bottles of my everyday wine so I don't get caught short.

No doubt my every day favorite is the 2001 Kathryn Kennedy Lateral. This is a $50 bottle for half the price.

I mix it up all the time, usually opening 5 or so bottles per week. Currently a Steltzner 2001 Claret.

Welcome Bert!

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Yes, but I came here for an argument.

Oh! Oh! I'm sorry, this is abuse.

a lot of this and that

99 Scavino Dolcetto (tonight)
01 Solanera
01 Shotfire Ridge Cuvee
02 Las Vascos

and whatever else is lurking in the basement

So far this year...

Morgante "Nero D'Avola" '01

jabberva,

How is the Scavino drinking?

291,

Wierd. I had a few bottles late summer (as well as over the previous year) and they were all great. The best dolcetto Ive ever had. However, very recently (last two weeks), Ive drunk two bottles. First one, I thought it was fading.

The second bottle I opened last night, and unfortunately I had the same impression, but I left over half the bottle in the fridge overnight. Today, I was pleasantly surprised --it showed very well, it had some mellow complexity and was a pleasurable drink. Its definitely lost its young dolcetto fruit, but this has some structure. Its just not clear to me how it will evolve from here.

I would buy the 00s or 01s without hesitation.

At about 11 bucks a bottle, the 2000 Beaumes-de-Venise, Côtes du Rhône, Cuvee Terroir Trias is a wonderful everyday wine for us.

I recommend it highly.

Red: 2001 Hanna Cabernet
White: 2002 West Slope Chardonnay

Sorry so many people are drinking so much ****ty wine for everyday drinking you can drink better if you look harder at different wineries.

Domaine Ragot Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

If you look backward in time at my collecting habits, you will see that 3-5 years ago I was a wine neophyte who was buying considerable amounts of stuff that I THOUGHT would be good agers. As a result, I have fairly large amounts of stuff with 3-5 years of bottle age that is now or is very close to being over the hill. As a result, my "everyday" wines are the results of poor buying decisions 3-5 years ago. Here's the case I pulled out of the cellar last week that we're working on this week:

1998 Ch. Montelena Saint Vincent -- still pretty tannin rich even though all of the wine gurus say its over the hill. I think the drinking window on this one is going to slam shut in the next six months, so we're quaffing it all this week and next.

Also, I bought two cases of Draxton's 2000 El Roy Alexander Valley Proprietor's Red Wine. The 1999 is still pretty bold, and we laid it down. I bought the 2000 for immediate drinking, and it hasn't let us down.

Semper ubi sub ubi!

I often call it 'Geyser' as in "Geyser 'nother glass o' tha' plonk"

Everbody else has patently misunderstood the question.

Lady K has started the website: www.KillerB.biz

jabberva,

Have you had the Bruno Rocca Dolcetto of late? Drinking very well in my opinion and one of the better ones I have had.

where's shane when you need a good laugh? I don't have an every day wine, but the most common wine I drink is probably Odjfell VIneyards- Armador. The Malbec and the CS are both pretty good QPR's

Kevin

My go-to cheapies are:

Red: Marietta Old Vines Lot xx (had from 28 to 32)

White: Leitz Dragonstone (had cases of the '02, haven't seen the '03 yet)

Dr. Loosen riesling Dr. L

I wanna go to Florida?

Oh, wrong whine.