chartreuse

That's a useful link. When we first moved here I resorted to googling beers, to find out the ABV, as none of the ones round here have it on the can.

Skiboy

Thanks Geoff. Live and learn huh.

GeoffM

I try to learn a lot about wine... by drinking it, of course! No, it's just that WZ is one I particularly like (along with Marlborough Sauvignon Plonk).

Michael

Although Zinfandel is the most common white wine made from a red grape in the US, it is not all that uncommon to make a variety of white wines from red grapes.

chartreuse

Would a white Châteauneuf du Pap be an example of that? I've had it twice, in NYC and Seattle, but it's rare as rocking horse manure everywhere else I've asked for it.

Skiboy

That's true. I believe that removing the pressed liquid from the (red grape) skins earlier is how it's done.

According to Wikipedia, white CNdP is made from just the white grapes permitted in that AOC. I got a few bottles earlier this year. Very nice, but definitely not cheap.

Paul

Michael

That would be an example just like a white Pinot Noir or white Merlot. However most of the time I believe it is the generic wines (blend of grapes that have a similar taste to the real thing) that produce both red and white wines from red grapes.

hobbes79

Can't beat Yellow Tail in my opinion. Can pick it up round here for $5 to $6 a bottle if you judge the sales right. The Shiraz is superb.

A great wine for the money. Better wine is out there of course, but I don't find anything superior until getting up to the $25 a bottle mark, which is just daft most of the time.

Oh, and always says the alcohol content on it.

tonrob

Correct - it's a State thing. Although I'm not sure whether it's as much have to put the ABV on as are allowed to put the ABV on.

TimberHut

Yeah some States don't want it on as they think it will encourage people to drink the stronger stuff. Not sure about that logic really. I think what it would actually do is get people off of the light beers (especially the new 'extra light' ones) as they now know there is not so much alcohol in them.

Generally speaking I'd say a lot of Americans are a little bit clueless when it comes to alcohol content. A lot think Bud & Bud Light have the same alcohol - just that Light has less calories.

The strangest one for me is that they will have a couple of ie Newcastles or Bass's and then say they best get on something weaker and go on the Bud. They think that dark beer = stronger beer.

fsm

Love the yellow tail, though I do have a wine that I get that's $32 it's a zinfindel that's 16%

chartreuse

That may be because, with US beers, it often does.

I had some quite decent IPA, from CO, the other day. Woke up with a thicker head than expected, checked the label and it was 7%...