Any wine drinkers out there?

I don't drink wine.  Never have.  And I know next to nothing about it.  But I'm hosting a Christmas dinner this year and would like to have a few nice bottles for the group.  I'll be serving a big roast and ham and all the other stuff you'd expect.  What do I get?

You might want to thread this in FOOD & FITNESS - also !

Have fun,bad.

One white, One red

go to a decent wine shop.  they'll have someone there who can help you out.  

Where's GBP when you need him?

 

Serve your guests beer and tell them to shut the fuck up if they complain.  

I said BOTTLE of wine!

Beer I've got covered.  No problems there.  Just need help on vino.

Most California Zinfandels go very well with pork products - rich fruity flavors with a touch of oak.

Thank me later.

Wine

To bad i wont be buying shit this year ha.

tres picos garnacha... had it with thanksgiving dinner

91 rating and about 16 bucks

https://www.bodegasborsao.com/en/producto.php?id=20

or do what clubdirt said

Clos Du Val Pinot Noir

Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill is always a good hit  I also see that 40/40 is a great hit with the guys on the corner im not sure if its a white or red

you should definitely go to a nice wine store and ask for help.  that's their job.  they will help you.  tell them what you're serving, how many wine drinkers you have, and what you want to spend.  they will hook it up.

If you want a decent, but cheap wine, get the Trumpeter Malbec.  should run about 8.99 and it regularly outdrinks $20+ bottles. 

 

how much are you willing to spend? Darioush is really good but hard to find. Duckhorn or Decoy. Storybook mountain Zins. i went to napa a couple years ago/ plus i drink a lot of wine. 

Just buy some Moscato wine!  It does good with the ladies.

Argentine Malbec and Spanish reds (generally Tempranillo-based) wouold be good matches, and you can get a REALLY good bottle of either in the $12-15 range.  If you're looking for a white that won't get lost in the shuffle, I'd try a dry Reisling (Germany, Alsace, Pacific NW)  or maybe a white Rhone and/or something Viognier-based. 

Depends on if the people coming over are wine snobs.  You would be amazed at the number of wine snobs I fool with the bag in the box wine.  They have no freaking idea.  A good number of your house wines when you go out come out of the boxes.

But I don't go bottom of the line.  The Black Box wines are best.

Stay away from those 5 litre boxes.  Grape juiced fermented for 45 days.  When your wine has an expiration date..beware.

wine snobbery is hilarious.  There was a "wine tasting" where they invited experienced wine reviewers and gave them a glass of white wine to review.  then they gave them the SAME white wine with a red dye in it to make it look like red wine.  Not one of them caught it and they all reviewed it differently.  https://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/11/the_subjectivity_of_wine.php?source=rss_feed

in the same article, they gave tasters the same wine in a bottle with a fancy label and a table-wine label.  they rated the one with the fancy label better than the table-wine label.  IT WAS THE SAME WINE.

Wine reviewers

7 Deadly Zins and Seghesio

First is around $13 - 18 and the Seghesio is around $20

Both will do your dinner party proud

Good stuff guys.  Thanks.  I would spend $50ish a bottle if I thought it was worth it.  I guess I should have mentioned that I would also like to impress any wine drinking guests (within reason of course)

I went to a wine party once with a bunch of pretty serious wine geeks.  We all brought a bottle of something we thought would be interesting.  Dave Matthews (yes, the Dave Matthews) brought a box of Almadin Mountain Chablis and served it as a "nice rose he had found."  People gushed about it.I recall thinking it was pretty good, too.   I think it was something like $7/box at the time.  Moral of the story:  I drink a LOT of wine, but very seldom pay more than $20/bottle, and usually more like $10.  There's an ocean of good, cheap wine out there.

I'm a huge fan of drink what you like. I do prefer the better reds out there.  I can't tell you what vintage or anything like that, but I can pick out the cheapies from the better stuff.  Although a few sniffs and a swril of the glass pretty much tells you the story.