Do You Drink Wine?

If so, what do you prefer? I've recently gotten back into wine and just poured myself a little night cap(yes it's 6:30am here) of some ménage a tois. It's a 2014 California Merlot. Has a cherry/plum/vanilla flavor to it and a nice velvety mouth feel. I've Mostly always stuck to Merlots. Am I missing out?

 

For some reason my pallet cant do wine, although I wish it would I just cant...Sucks!!!!

 

Only the kinds with alcohol. Seriously, I go to wine tastings several times a year, and try everything.

 

I have tasted probably every kind of wine. many I don't remember. lol Of all types of alcohol, wine is the one I drink because I like it. I like the taste of marguaritas; but, lets face it, I'm not gonna sit around the house drinking a marguarita at the end of a rough day unless somebody is drinking them with me. Thats too much trouble to go to just for me when I can easily pour a glass of wine, and I will sit and enjoy a glass of wine by myself and the computer.

To be honest, I don't want to get into a habit of having a drink of liquor everyday...but then I like having a little wine before my evening meal. In the last few months my mother and I semi-regularly enjoy a nip of wine in the evenings...she will ONLY drink some before her supper. :rofl:

My favorite is actually merlot. I prefer red wine...dry or semi-dry.

 

I went through a wine phase a few years ago until I discovered even a small to moderate amount of wine (2 or 3 glasses) makes me blind drunk. Then I discovered craft beer and never really bothered with wine again.

It's funny that pretentious wine talk like "velvety mouth feel" makes cringe a little but i find myself talking the same way about craft beer sometimes.

 

I love wine. I'm a huge fan of the Okanagan valley canadian wines, since I have worked on vineyards out there. I drove around to a ton of wineries there and tried everythkng, and I even went to their wine festivals tasting event last year where I got to try wines from over 60 wineries. I'm also a big fan of wines from chile and argentina. You can get really good inexpensive malbecs from that region and that is what I normally choose to drink at home.

I mostly drink reds, but if I am drinking a white wine it's normally a dry riesling or a super fruity gewurtstraminer depending on my mood.

 

No.

I am willing to try some wine again with someone who really knows stuff about it but otherwise no thanks. All my experiences with wine so far are why bother drinking this....

Yes, on good beer

 

Wines kind of bore me. I tried getting into them, but I feel my wine knowledge is rather weak. I was on a port wine kick a couple years ago. That stuff will knock you on your ass for sure. I may get some now that the holidays are here.

 

lol...pretentious wine talk is right!

Back in the olden days of college I took a wine tasting class. I learned the jargon and vocabulary of it all but I never honestly "got it".

All that jibber jabber amounts to: wine is sweet, half tart/half sweet, or there is NO sweetness. lol Some wines taste close to sweet ethanol (MD 20/20) and some taste like vinegar, (libermilch - wrong spelling, I'm sure) Then there are worlds in between this.

No matter if I was smoking or not, I can't identify almond, blackberry, fruity whatever specific in the taste. Sometimes the aroma is telling. I know if I like what I smell though. :daisy: ha

There is supposed to be a special way a "good" wine will drip down a goblet. lol

good grief

everybody should drink merlot

 

That wine has some great legs to it

 

I enjoy a glass of wine and usually stick to very dry whites. I like reds but I get migraines from them so I tend to avoid them.

I drink less of them these days as my taste buds have changed and they tend to be salty to me. Not for any noble reasons for sure as I miss having a glass while preparing and having my dinner.

 

I have to agree I'm not a fan of how pretentious wine people can get. I was considering taking some wine classes last year, but decided it just wasn't a bunch of people I want to be surrounded by. I might still go back and take a couple classes someday but I decided to go more the food route. I also can't stand how wines are described often, I think it makes wine less accessible to new people. I dont mind calling a wine smoky or fruity, dry or fruity, etc, but listing a whole bunch of random crap like leather and slate in the flavours just annoys me. Especially because if you ask 2 professional sommeliers to describe the same wine, they will often say completely different things, so it's clearly subjective and bullshit.

 

I agree with you. I have had wines that have had rave reviews and were not inexpensive that tasted like sewerage.

If it tastes appealing to you, it is a good wine.

 

I love wine, it's my favorite intoxicator . I tend to favor strong, bold red wine, like Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache. In reality I'll drink any wine that isn't sweet.

When I dabble in white wine, I prefer very dry, like Sauvignon Blanc. I don't bother with much of the pretentious wine vocabulary, not fluent in that. I just like what I like

 

To get back to the op. I also like most of the Bordeaux grapes and a lot of Bordeaux style mixes. Merlot is often in a bordeaux blend so maybe you should try one of those next rollin?

 

LOL, last year, an excellent vintage

 

Sometimes I wish I handled wine better so I could be classy on occasion instead of the girl always guzzling beer lol.

 

Put your beer in a champagne flute.

 

i drink wine if someone gives me some, but i never intentionally go out and buy it or anything. back in college we would occasionally do wine nights. i think we mostly preferred the kind that comes in a box.

 

It's such a pretty perfume that wafts from the glass.. sumptuous rich fruity flavors that caress the palate.. and the long silky finish.. mm.. just waiting to see what happens next.

I've been savng it for years, for the right occasion