What differentiates wines?

Someone came in the store I worked at once, telling me that wines from France don't have the tannins, so you can drink as much as you wish, without the headache. Maybe it's the same with the acid reflux.

P.S., one of the guys at the store tried it, and it worked for him.

 

More than I should've.

But I can handle more alcohol content from other types of alcohol fine.

 

I asked because some people think they can drink wine just like beer, but it is a lot stronger, more like a mixed drink.

 

That's interesting, but how do you get flavor and color without them?

 

i have no idea. i could go on all day about beer styles, but ive never even had a sip of wine that wasn't homemade.

 

There are over 5000 different kinds of grapes that can be used to make wine. The earth they are grown in is also a very important factor. Certain vinyards around the Niagra region have very dry, loose dirt, which produces a more dry, bitter wine. Thicker, darker earth produces a richer, sweeter wine. Ice wine is made with grapes that were actually in the frozen ground. P.E.I has some very good wine that's pretty unique due to it's earth. You can also hardly ever go wrong with Austrailian wine. I've yet to taste a bad one.

If you're looking for a few very good wines to try, here are some good ones:

- Naked Grape, Sauvignon Blanc, Ontario Canada
- Di Sasso, red wine, Tuscany Italy
- Martini Asti, sparkling wine, Italy
- Dan Aykroyd, Cabernet Merlot, Ontario Canada
- Yellow Tail, Shiraz, Chardonnay, Austrailia (according to their website they're the #1 selling Austrailian wine in 10 countries.)

These are all very good and relatively inexpensive

 

I don't know what makes them so different, but I do know that champagne gives me hives, and red wine gives me migraines.

White wine, I just don't like.

 

I know, antifreeze... j/k :biggrin:

 

dunno. Ima just passinit alongst. Maybe it's the degree, not all or none.

 

If the differences in wine arent screwy enough--

I just recently found out that all the different shapes of wine glasses are for particular wines.... hmm

 

I call Shenanigans,,haha.

 

Bollocks!


always wanted to say that

 

Hahah no..

It must just be some weird thing I have.

Suits the rest of me. :cheers2:

 

I drank ordinary wine my whole life but only acquired a taste for the good stuff about five years ago. Mostly I like the classic reds, i.e. French Burgundy and Bordeaux, also some Italian and Californian.

I bought a case at auction about two years ago. Mixed old bordeaux, about $80 a bottle I think, some of it going back to 1961. It was unforgettably good.

I've been taken as a client to some bordeaux tastings that went up to about $400 a bottle.

I think a lot of people think they don't like wine because they only drink the cheap stuff or they just sling it back and swallow it. You can't taste wine once you've swallowed it, you need to give you tastebuds a chance to work with it.

 

right now, I don't like wine, because stuff that is described in ALL kinds of different ways to me, though, yes, tastes different, always has an underlying flavour of rotting fruit.

it's not the main flavour I dislike

it's that rotting fruit flavour.

 

I hear ya. Sounds like it isn't for you.

Even a chilled white wine?

 

I haven't gotten to white wine yet,

The thing that prompted me to start this thread is the fact that I'm going to be staying at a winecentric village\camp for the burn, so I'll be learning about wine, and exposed to more (and VERY moderate about it because it will knock me the fuck out in conjunction with my meds, won't kill me, just make me sleep like a stone from what I've read)

 

If you wanted to take my word for it, white is easier to like than red. for the whites, "oaked" wines are less appealing, don't go for anything oaked, especially 'vanilla oak'. Younger is going to be better too.

You want something fresh and with lots of fruit in it, like a chilled pinot grigio, which is a reasonably priced italian white wine.

also check the alcohol content, it varies a lot. if it already affects you too much pick something low alcohol. A lot of german whites are low alcohol.

and just remember to give your taste buds some time to work on it and don't just swallow it.

anyhow just my two bits.

 

grapes and region

 

And make sure you watch Sideways before you go.