What is your favorite wine region (and why)?

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Châteauneuf-du-Pape for me - they are just so complex and very consistent in my experience.

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For myself this has changed several times over the years. My first love was Chateauneuf du Pape, then Napa and Bordeaux. Most recently it was Barolo but I find myself migrating South to Campagnia. I still love all these wines but I find myself most excited by Aglianico these days.

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Burgundy is my first love, but I am really getting into a lot of the SCM wines!

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Most of Western Europe. Too many beautiful wines and terroirs would be eliminated narrowing it down much more.

RT

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Bordeaux for red and sweet (Sauternes). German Riesling for white. Beautiful expressions of terroir, especially with some age!

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I’m almost right there with ya, Freek.

St. Emilion for the reds. Who anywhere on the planet is making better vino than Pavie & Ausone?

Mosel/Nahe/Rheingau Riesling for the amazing dry, fruity, and sweet works of art.

Cheers! to these modern wines - the best wines ever produced in history!

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Chambolle is certainly one of my favorite villages also. But it is really the great complexity of the Cote d’Or that puts it so much ahead other regions. There’s a whole world there and even if you never saw a wine from outside of it you could be really happy. I’m not saying that I don’t love wines from elsewhere. I do love Piedmont, Northern Rhone, Champagne and many Riesling regions among others, but none of these, IMHO, offers the kind of diversity Cote d’Or does.

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Burgundy by a small margin over Barbaresco and Barolo. That said I alos regularly drink and love CDP, NRs, Brunello, Chianti, BDX and Rioja too along with the occassional selective CA versions like Mount Eden and Dominus.

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My favorite is Napa since I love full bodied cabs, then Bordeaux (Reds and Sauternes), Brunello, and German Rieslings.

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Finger Lakes. Because it’s the only region I can drive to and taste on my lunchbreak. neener

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Burgundy.
The wine of kings and the king of wines… [worship.gif] [worship.gif] [worship.gif]

TTT

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I don’t think I could choose just three “favorite regions.” There’s so many that I completely love, there’s no way to narrow it down.

Now certainly my buying goes in cycles. I think that’s mostly a matter of discovering a new region and deciding that I need to backfill, and/or being priced out of old favorites.

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Madeira.
Nothing has the history of these wines. There is a wide variety of styles from bone dry to dessert sweet. And it is the most complex-tasting material that can be ingested, legal or not. [cheers.gif]

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This post makes me intrigued to try some. At what price point does one start getting the complexity?

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Well…its the wine of Dukes actually [wink.gif]

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That was the funniest damn response that I’ve seen to anything in some time. [welldone.gif]

Yeah. Besides Nebbiolo, the reds that I like most from Italy are Aglianico, Lagrein, and Teroldego.

I can’t choose a favorite overall region for wine. I’m not sure that I could choose twenty.

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Loire.
Diversity & cost.

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The best place to get Cote D’or is

Get the dark one with almonds !
Enjoy the best chocolate bar you can get !

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CdP was my first love in wine, for no better reason that it’s the first wine that was interesting enough to get me interested in learning more, and my studying and tasting focused on the Rhône. I had never studied at all the geography of the Bay Area, but when I moved out here I made a map of the wineries I like and found they are predominantly in Sonoma. Meeting the people and seeing the places has added another dimension to my enjoyment, so today I’m voting Sonoma.

Michel, we should get together for a drink sometime [thumbs-up.gif]