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The best wine I ever had was made by Creole Williams

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You will never “get into” wine unless it’s rated.
It makes a huge difference. There is a reason the are so few wines that get a 100 point rating.
Yes.. absolutely it is subjective.
However, the disparity between the top 10%ish and everything else is mind blowing. Espically that last 3%-4%.

I never acquired the taste buds to really appreciate the subtle nuances at the upper 2% or so of wines, and I was given the opportunity to drink some of the most revered wine on the planet on a regular basis for several years. Some of it..Crazy shit...that now sells for $20k+ a bottle.
Matter of fact. My wine benefactor recently noted to someone else that he and I Personally drank over a million dollars in wine @ today’s prices. Over a 13 year period At the time it was only several hundred to a few thousand a bottle. He had at one time 12k bottles of the top 4% one could acquire.

So..what did learn from what you might think is a huge wine snob ?
First and foremost. Drink what you like. Fuck what everyone else says. You like it. Enjoy it.
Fine wine is a journey all it’s own with many roads.
True wine snobs never fuck up spectacular wine with food. You sit around a discuss the subtle changes as it changes Over the next couple hours into something completely different than what you started with.

Wine and food:
fuck everyone. Drink what you like.
Only one generalization...strong food=strong wine. Light food=light wine. One should never over power the other. Unless you like it that way !

Get a couple books on the nuances Of wine that has the taste wheel In it for a reference and Move up and down the quality scale. It will take awhile but all of a sudden it will click and you will start to notice the changes as the wine warms up and oxidises.

Best wishes. It’s an interesting journey.

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The Stella rose was good.  I don't care much for the apothic.  To me instead of good wine it tastes like cheap whiskey.  At 15.9% it makes a okay mixer.  I mixed it with coke and it works surprisingly okay.  I'll get into the last bottle later this week.

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The Stella rose was good.  I don't care much for the apothic.  To me instead of good wine it tastes like cheap whiskey.  At 15.9% it makes a okay mixer.  I mixed it with coke and it works surprisingly okay.  I'll get into the last bottle later this week.

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Yeah, I haven't tried it but I don't think I'd enjoy Apothic Inferno either.
But for the lessor expensive wines you might try a couple of the other Apothic offerings - some people like them others do not.
And you might like Carnivor Zinfandel for a dark red wine.

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