What differentiates wines?

How bizarre, neo.

 

Drinking age of 21 is so fucked, You're out of high school, working full time, paying taxes, you can vote and help decide the leader of your nation, but you cant frickin legally drink???

Its 18 here, and that didnt really mean much, I was getting served at my local at 16

 

I kind of understand it.
She considers drinking a strictly social thing, and she also considers me mature enough to drink with others.
Or maybe it's just the fact that she knows I have drank extensively in the past, and isn't cruel enough to make me sit around while everyone is drinking except for me.

 

Yeah it sucks, but I'm more or less apathetic about it since I will be 21 in march.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_wine

Do you have those enormous "casks" or "boxes" encasing a foil bladder full of wine? That is what we call goon in Australia. Adelaide and its surrounds is a wine producing region, so goon can be picked up very cheaply here.

When I was in high school, a large cask of goon could be bought for as little as $5 and could get eight 15 year olds drunk.

Thats less than 70c a person!

 

lol

 

I love wine. I haven't drank it in a few months though...

 

Whatever makes you feel more bourgeois costs more.

 

When they're not plotting to take over the world, they're making fine wines.

 

Two buck chuck?

 

some wines taste good, some taste like shit
that simple really
and some costs assloads depending on where you are
generally speaking the more expensive the better it should taste
i'm a fan of either a dry red wine or a sweet white
in france i love the roses and i freaking love hungarian red wine
australia makes excellent wine, same with africa and argentina

 

Hi wine experts.

I think I'm allergic to wine.

Is this possible?

 

Because humans were blessed with taste buds.

 

A yeast allergy is possible, but quite rare and you'd have noticed it with bread and other such yeasty products
Some wines also contain sulfites which produce mild reactions in some. This is more likely the cause if you are having allergy symptoms

 

My fav is an Australian Shiraz. Banrock Station, not sure what year. Very smooth, very drinkable. NOT expensive either.

 

Perhaps just a slight intollerancy?

I get drunk so fast off wine. And it makes me do stupid, stupid things. I can drink anything else, and be quite well-behaved, and not get so drunk so fast.

I always vomit, that night and for the next two days. Then I feel sick for the next week.

I've only been drunk three times drinking wine, and each time this has happened.

With any other alcohol (depending on how much I drink) I may feel slightly hungover the next morning, but am fine after that.

 

How much wine did you drink? Was it chardonnay?

 

I've been sick on red wine. First time I had any, it was at a hippie party back in the late sixties. There was a gallon jug of cheap red wine being passed around, and being the "big man", I took a "healthy swig",,glug glug glug,,thereby proving my prowess as a total guy. When I left, I made it to the car, spent the night sleeping in the front seat with my head hanging out the door, ralphing in the gutter.

The only time I'd been sick before that was with some high school buddies who had rented a cabin in Big Bear and had brought along a fifth of whiskey and some cards. That kept me on the bathroom floor for the night, and in bed for the entire weekend. Got one ride on a toboggan in the snow on the way back down the hill, almost killed myself sailing through a cable fence when I lost control.

Then, my sister took me to a Donna Summer concert at the Hollywood Bowl back in seventy something. She kept feeding me champagne, in our box seats, and I was okay, but when she ran out of champagne and introduced a bottle of red wine,,whooey. I lost it when I got back to her place.

From that time until I retired in 2003, I never drank alcohol again. Now, I just have a glass once in a while.

Things like that undoubtedly saved me from a life of alcoholism.

 

How much antacid I'm gonna need to drink 'em.
The tannins give me major acid reflux. But, I'll still hazard a glass from time to time.