Heading to Cafe Diva later this week in steamboat springs and need some help on this wine list. It’s not the best list, but steamboat isn’t really a wine town.
Would love to hear any thoughts.
Thanks!
Wow, big wine list but serious markup, pretty much 3x across the board. Welcome to Colorado resort pricing!
I’d go for the Machete at $149 or the Prisoner at $110… joking!
Not sure what type or price range you are thinking but the Teeter-Totter Cab is a side label from Benoit Touquette at $146 will be good and around 2x markup a decent value.
The Bereche Rive Gauche champagne gets high marks on CT, retails for $90-100 (but isn’t necessarily very easy to find).
The DuMol pinot noir seems like a reasonable purchase (retail=~$70), and the Magna Porcum and Foxen pinot noirs are also contenders – the former likely to be a little more robust, the latter more fruity.
I’ve never heard of the Decades 5 petit verdot, but CT reviews are favorable and, in principle, the best retail price is $153.
I had it once (2010 I think). It’s a delicious wine, though definitely on the modern and showy side of the spectrum. Not like overly sweet or an oak bomb, but velvety and ripe. Still has PV character.
It would be an adventurous choice, but a good one.
That 2018 Hochar is a $30-35 wine at retail in the USA. So it’s hardly a steal at $80 on that list, but it is probably better than average value among those options.
Most of the old world whites are not unreasonably priced, that’s where I’d be camping out. Obviously depends on your tastes, but I could drink pretty well from this list.
Quite possibly the only Berserker Day wine on the list, 2019 JB Neufeld Cabernet Sauvignon, $98. ~3x mark up and way too young, imo, buy interesting to me that it’s on the list.