Poll: What are your current "house" wines

More info on Larose-Trintaudon is below. But first: This is a good question for a wine forum, I think. Here are some current wines I can answer with. I don't quite think of them as "everyday" because they have character, and they don't get used every day. (Also, "everyday" ought in principle to be a good bulk or jug wine as found in Europe, I think: something sound but simple -- and preferably well below US $10 per bottle.)

- 2001 Malbec, Dolium, Mendoza (Argentina). Red of the dark, generous school, dark berry fruit, soft tannin. US $10.80 in August 2004 at an importer-retailer in my region, www.france-wine.com .

- 1999 Josef Rosch Trittenheimer Apotheke Spätlese (a Mosel Riesling). When on the market, early 2001 I think, it was on sale circa $10 at a local importer-retailer, Dee Vine Wines of San Francisco (www.dvw.com). I got some extra as "house Riesling" and am glad I did. Dee Vine continues to import premium German producers such as Rosch, Loosen, Bbutterman-Jordan, etc. Recently I got some of the 2003 Rosch Leiwener Klostergarten Kabinett at $14 -- beautifully structured, versatile, full of flavor, durable. (So maybe I will answer the same question with that wine, in 2008 or 2009.)

- Random vintages of Ch. Larose-Trintaudon from the 1990s. (At one point, February 2004, the Trader Joe's retail chain was dumping its 1999 Ch. L-T, first $10 a bottle, then $6. 1999 is a fairly young vintage now.)

A little more on Château Larose-Trintaudon, "the largest estate in the Médoc" and a quality moderately-priced Bordeaux for decades -- the one with the dark-red label. In case anyone missed them, re-posted below are comments from this newsgroup (or its direct predecessor) in earlier years. Note the trouble in spelling "Trintaudon."

Charles Hunt, 22-Apr-85:

Right now, there are dozens of fine bordeaux available ... For small I personally recommend: La Tour de By, Fourcas Hosten, Fourcas Dupree, Greysac, Larose Trantadon, de Pez, Ormes de Pez, Marbuzet, Haut Marbuzet, Phelan Segur, Carbonnieux, Smith Haute Lafitte, Plagnac, Bel-Air, ... they all have a "Chateau" before the name to impress your friends, but are mostly really just farms.