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Chateau Armallac

Is that available here, and for how much?

I'm still a miser with wines.

For the past few weeks, I've been having this Bordeaux called Chateau Bouteilley - reasonably priced and the 14% alcohol being a big factor in buying and drinking it. lol!

Just being new with French wines. Any recommendations? Not too expensive, ok? thanks in advance.

best for me:

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

Shiraz

from either of these three Argentina, Chile, Australia

great choices!

but whenever I drink a product from any specific country, I make it a point to have the wine grape native to them. So therefore"

Argentina - malbecs

Chile - carmeneres

Australia - shiraz

California - zinfandel or cabernet sauvignon

South Africa - pinotage

Spain - tempranillo

New Zealand - not really native to them, but the Kiwis make good pinot noirs. The other great region for pinot noirs is Oregon, in the US.

France - the Bordeaux wines

Germany/Austria - the rieslings and the gewurtztraminers

Anything I missed out?

But these are not hard-and-fast rules.

Go drink whatever you like best - that is the rule!

cheers!

I'm a sucker for news on health sites.

Well yes, tannins in red wine protect against heart disease because it contains procyanidins, whatever they are.

And accordingly, wines from southwest France has abundant procyanidins.

So back to Google Maps and Fodor France Guidebook. What is southwest France?

There it is - the Bordeaux. Should have guessed it right away. The Languedoc region. (I am pretty mystified by the Languedoc as it figures prominently in Holy Blood, Holy Grail, whose original thesis was shamelessly filched by this someone named Dan Brown. I hope he drowns in must).Some other places there.

Medoc. Pauillac. Graves. Sauternes. Bergerac. Cahors. St. Emilion. Pomerol. These are the names.

Been into French lately. What I do know is that I have noticed that Australian wines have been giving me some bad buzz lately. What is it in those Aussies? Too much sulphites? The particular vintage of late? Bad grapes? HopingOverly technical, therefore bad processing? I don't know.

What I also know lately is that the French have been quite forgiving. Not cloying. Sometimes too tannic. (Must be the voluminous procyanidins or whatever they're called?).

I am trying to free up some moolah to go upscale with these French wines because those in the lower rungs are an evil puckerish lot.

Hoping to taste good in time.

Cheers!

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