{"id":153,"date":"2006-09-25T11:47:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-02-21T22:55:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T05:55:51","slug":"comfort-wines-consistent-reliable-and-well-priced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Wines:  Consistent, Reliable, Well Priced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vic Hubbard, wine buyer for Bellingham\u2019s Community Food Co-Op, likes to refer to something he calls \u201ccomfort wines.\u201d  Comfort wines, he says, are \u201cfamiliar, fairly consistent\u2026wines that are made in enough quantity to have good availability.\u201d  In addition, \u201cthese wines are not too expensive to enjoy at least occasionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I like that concept.  The fairly recent proliferation of wineries and wines is staggering, and walking into a store and trying to make an informed purchase can sometimes be a bit overwhelming.  <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s nice to have some measure of reliability in a wine from year to year.  And comfort wines \u2013 like comfort foods \u2013 should be something you can buy without reservation, knowing that they will please your palate on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a couple of suggestions for what I would select as comfort wines.  First up is the <strong>Barnard Griffin 2004 Fum\u00e9 Blanc<\/strong> (about $9). <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/winelibrary.com\/images\/4791.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/>This Columbia Valley white wine has plenty of citrus flavors followed by a slightly herbal finish.  It matches up perfectly with chicken or seafood, it\u2019s readily available and it\u2019s always extremely well-priced.<\/p>\n<p>Another of my all-time favorite labels is the <strong>Marietta Cellars Old Vine Zinfandel<\/strong> from California\u2019s Sonoma Valley.  The lot numbers vary from year to year, but the wines are consistently solid and delicious.  If you like your Zins with lots of dense, lush, blackberry and currant flavors and touches of spice on the finish you can\u2019t go wrong with Marietta.  It\u2019s another wine that\u2019s both tasty and affordable, generally priced in the range of $10 to $15 a bottle.<!--737df597074c762b86b23522f9ad3ee0--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic Hubbard, wine buyer for Bellingham\u2019s Community Food Co-Op, likes to refer to something he calls \u201ccomfort wines.\u201d Comfort wines, he says, are \u201cfamiliar, fairly consistent\u2026wines that are made in enough quantity to have good availability.\u201d In addition, \u201cthese wines are not too expensive to enjoy at least occasionally.\u201d I like that concept. The fairly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-bellingham-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}