Day 2 baby!
We’re back, you know the rules, and if you don’t here they are:
- One box is voted on per day. The current box is bolded
- Please don’t be a fool and comment for a different box or future box, will not count
- Winner is top comment after 24 hours
- We then advance to the next!
Top 2 runner ups will be posted in the next post!
Runner ups:
Most Underrated Wine Region
– Greece
– Loire Valley, France
by AustraliaWineDude
37 Comments
Napa by a mile
As much as I don’t wanna disrespect any region as they all have something going for them…. Alsace. I’ve had many wines from there be hyped up so much only to end up feeling like I could’ve gotten something significantly better from just over the border.
Napa
Marlborough
Napa
I know that I am going to get a lot of flack for this, but to me it’s California.
I’m not turning my nose up at all of Provence but sometimes it does feel like I’m drinking a delusion of retro glamour as filtered by Instagram.
Napa
I’m ready to take some flak on this one, but Burgundy.
While they are producing exceptional wines, the hype and prices have become ridiculous.
Burgundy, Burgund, Borgogna. It can not be anything but this. Pinot or Chardonay all ways has a huge “tax” when its from here and you can find other wines where the QPR is just tenfold better.
I love the wine from there but it is overrated.
I’m sorry, but imo the answer is Burgundy. It’s the only place in the world where you can spend hundreds and still get plonk, and somehow we’re all just okay with this.
Napa
We all know Napa has bloated, overpriced wines. But I’ve also had some pretty phenomenal wine from Napa. Chianti on the other hand…
Toss up between Napa and Burgundy, but seeing as I’m in Europe it’s definitely Burgundy. Ridiculous prices even for the average wines.
Everyone saying Napa but I’m going to say Burgundy for fun 😈
Burgundy, and it’s not that close
Marlborough
BurgoneNapa lololol. They are a tie. Both have great wines, neither are worth the price of admission in most brands.
Look, Burgundy has somehow convinced the world that drinking mortgage payments is sophisticate, but here’s the thing: you can get similar, mind-blowing, terroir-driven experience from Oregon, Anderson Valley, or Austria without having to explain to your spouse why you just spent three grand on fermented grape juice.
The emperor has no clothes, people, he just has a really good publicist and a French accent!
Bourgogne or Napa
Burgundy or Napa. They need to get humbled
I can’t believe no one has said Bordeaux
Obviously Napa. Sugar bombs and grape juice with a rare tasteful producer. As expensive as burgundy and far worse. I would wager most of the folks saying “burgundy” here have never opened a bottle of Roumier or PYCM.
Napa
Napa
Burgundy by miles
Burgundy. No other region is selling garbage for $100 A bottle.
Burgundy
Burgundy.
Burgundy. Wait! Hear me out…
They may very well produce some of – if not THE best reds in the World. However, they do also pump out some awful, bland and utterly insignificant wine, that is overpriced and overrated.
Oh yearh. And Napa.
+1 for bourgogne.
Burgundy.
So, so, so much Burgundy priced between $20-$50 is straight up simple, borderline ‘bad’, wine.
<$100, and youre more likely to be disappointed than anything.
Bordeaux
I love Burgundy, but it’s Burgundy.
I recall Peter Koff MW saying “I can’t think of any other region the entire world where the average standard of winemaking on such unbelievably expensive land is so bad”. This is not to say the highs aren’t very high indeed, but when a region begets so many expensive disappointments how can it not be ‘overrated’?
To make matters worse, these disappointments feed in to the obsession that makes the instances of greatness so coveted. As an enthusiast, I find it sad that I can’t check off the region’s famous Lieu Dits because I will never afford them. It feels like a glaring hole in my wine repertoire, such quintessential pieces of the broader wine puzzle that I can only fill in second hand. And yet I can still afford many of the ‘grand crus’ of Piedmont, the Mosel, etc. I’d argue pricing beyond the mortal realm can only signify an overrated region.
I’m still going to buy that delicious 50 quid Nuits-Saint-Georges though.
Bordeaux
Napa
Burgundy. The top wines are sublime but completely unaffordable. The rest of the wines are uneven. It’s a minefield of $30-50 bottles of varying quality. It’s been that way as long as I have been drinking wine (early 1990s).