What are the best supermarket wines? - Page 2

"Local" wineries outside the major production areas can be interesting, fun, surprising and rewarding.  As to being your "best bet" for "good," no.  Unless it's a very special winery indeed (and heaven knows, I'm certainly not familiar with anywhere near most of them), the mind boggles.  There are sound climate and soil reasons the big areas are the big areas.  With respect and affection for Indiana, it isn't Napa or the Loire.

BDL

OK. Here's a "local" for some of you in Granola-land: 

http://stefaniawine.com/

Everything they make is good. The proprietors, Paul and Stephania are both really nice people. 

Anyway, that's not the point of this post. Friday I picked up a bottle from the local grocery store ('da Jewels) for +/-$7 otd. I'm told by some wine geeks that it should go regularly for $15. It was fandamntastic. 

Their stuff is very good quality/price/ratio juice (QPR). One of my favorites is their Petite Sirah. 

That however, is not the focus of this post. This one, Conservancy Crimson and Clover, is. 

Like I said, I gave about $7 for this, and tomorrow I'd be happy to drop the $15 for it because it is that good a juice. The nose has some spice, maybe currant and/or clove; The palate has nice dark fruit, like brutally ripe strawberries and blackberries. My wife thought maybe vanilla. I thought that was maybe leather and tobacco. All in all, delicious. Nice finish, with some tannin to support it's wonderful body. Very mature for an '09. It paired very well with our "Hamburger-Helper CLASSIC Cheeseburger Macaroni". I'm sure it could hold up to anything big. 

I have heard (and only heard, so this could be completely wrong), but apparently you can tell how good the wine is by the curve at the bottom of the bottle. The more curved, the better the wine. Cheers!

Sorry beginnerchef, but NO, bottle curve and wine quality are not so much related.