Wine Sucks

[northernlad]

Voignier is too thin and bland for me.
I started drinking White Zin in college. I once finished a magnum in 40 minutes. Druck.
Some time after that I had real wine and never looked back. The first time you have a properly aged Cabernet Sauvignon, it'll change your life.

 

[the_bird]

Even if you don't like tannic red wines, there are so many better wines that white zins. Finger Lakes are known for Rieslings and other fairly light, fruity wines; we buy dry ones for ourselves and semi-dry (like, 1.5% residual sweetness) when we're bringing a bottle to share. You can get a really nice wine with a little sweetness that's not cloying and that has a great, fresh flavor and some nice tartness to it, and you're still only spending $12 or $15 a bottle.

 

[Joos]

BMC sucks. Wine sucks. people that bitch about other people's opinions suck.


(for the record PTN's wine does not suck):rockin:

 

[paulthenurse]

(for the record PTN's wine does not suck):rockin:

Maybe his wine doesn't suck but PTN sucks a great big hairy one.


Word.

PTN

 

[Joos]

Maybe his wine doesn't suck but PTN sucks a great big hairy one.


Word.

PTN

Drinkin on a monday night? me too!!!!

 

[calpyro]

At an unamed winery in Napa, the winemaker put a fire hydrant fitting on his White Zin tank for firefighting use. He said "using it to put out a fire would be it's highest use" The stuff is pure crap, but is pays the bills at the wineries.

 

[trubled]

It's viognier

done right it rivals a good chard

 

[paulthenurse]

I was drinking on a Monday but i was drinking cough syrup. Who knew you could wake up with a hangover from Vicks? Damn I feel horrible! This cold is killing me.

And I agree, viognier can be a great wine. It's often pedestrian plonk but done right its fantastic.

PTN

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

How did I miss this thread!? I'm not paying enough attention. Retardedness is what I inhale and exhale, I am normally attracted to someone else's retartedness like a magnet.

 

[cheezydemon3]

How did I miss this thread!? I'm not paying enough attention. Retardedness is what I inhale and exhale, I am normally attracted to someone else's retartedness like a magnet.

Sneaking onto short buses again LGI?

 

[paulthenurse]

How did I miss this thread!? I'm not paying enough attention. Retardedness is what I inhale and exhale, I am normally attracted to someone else's retartedness like a magnet.

It's like slowing down to look at the wreck on the highway. You know you don't want to see the carnage but you can't stop yourself from looking.

PTN

 

[cheezydemon3]

Is that while you are sucking a big hairy one Paul? Which wine pairs best with that? (not that I encourage drinking and driving)

 

[zman]

Pallets change. My friend was a gal that was only a BMC drinker. A month or so ago she told me that her tastes are changing and started making the leap and bought a 12 pack of Fat Tire. When she goes to the GABF with SWMBO and I she never tried the "Dark Beers". Now I got a request to make a Raspberry Stout. Another Convert....MUHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

[paulthenurse]

Is that while you are sucking a big hairy one Paul? Which wine pairs best with that? (not that I encourage drinking and driving)

Not that I encourage drinking and driving either but my buddy Drunken and I polished off a case of Fat Tire this past fall doing 36 at Pine Grove. I think he beat me by two strokes but I don't really remember.

Then again I had a handicap. I had a few on the drive there.

PTN

 

[cheezydemon3]

Not that I encourage drinking and driving either but my buddy Drunken and I polished off a case of Fat Tire this past fall doing 36 at Pine Grove. I think he beat me by two strokes but I don't really remember.

Then again I had a handicap. I had a few on the drive there.

PTN

If golf is anything like Pool, I actually play better after a few, so I retract my statement!

 

[CoalCracker]

Was not really into wine until September when myself and the SWMBO took a vacation at the Finger Lakes. I'm a convert. I found myself to actually really enjoy a red with a strong oak taste... Like the sweeter ones as well.. However halfway through the day of tasting. I felt like I went head to head with a ram... Man did I hurt.

Some neat little Macro Breweries up that way too! Anyone that doesn't like wine, needs to go to either Napa or The Finger Lakes and get a true taste.

 

[the_bird]

Was not really into wine until September when myself and the SWMBO took a vacation at the Finger Lakes. I'm a convert. I found myself to actually really enjoy a red with a strong oak taste... Like the sweeter ones as well.. However halfway through the day of tasting. I felt like I went head to head with a ram... Man did I hurt.

Some neat little Macro Breweries up that way too! Anyone that doesn't like wine, needs to go to either Napa or The Finger Lakes and get a true taste.

Absolutely. See, I found out I'm the opposite - I don't really like heavily oaked wines. What I love about the tastings is being able to do side-by-side comparisons, a few places had the same wine, just some aged in oak and some fermented entirely in stainless. Makes it so much easier to pick up on the subtle differences.

There's a cool new distillery on the east side of Seneca, too, Finger Lakes Distilling. I'm not really into hard liquors, but they make an excellent maple-infused applejack.

 

[CoalCracker]

The distillery is cool. I didn't do any tasting as I probably shouldn't have been driving by that point. Bought some Corn Whisky to mix with some other stuff.

 

[pernox]

Was not really into wine until September when myself and the SWMBO took a vacation at the Finger Lakes. I'm a convert. I found myself to actually really enjoy a red with a strong oak taste... Like the sweeter ones as well.. However halfway through the day of tasting. I felt like I went head to head with a ram... Man did I hurt.

Some neat little Macro Breweries up that way too! Anyone that doesn't like wine, needs to go to either Napa or The Finger Lakes and get a true taste.

Had a similar experience with my new bride on our honeymoon in Niagara Falls a couple years ago. We wanted to tour the wineries (we stayed on the .ca side) on our own just for something non-touristy to do, and it turns out I like some dark wines, myself. I still don't buy myself a bottle, but that could change. She found herself liking the Ice Wine enough that we dropped something like $60 on a bottle of the high-test stuff. It comes out in tiny glasses every so often.

Buddy just convinced me to buy a bottle of Port, too - which I consumed on Christmas. Great stuff! My bottle wasn't anything fancy (Sandemann's Tawny Porto) but I was impressed.

 

[CoalCracker]

Port isn't bad. Bit too thick for my tastes. I compare that to drinking a barley wine. Definitely a sipper

 

[the_bird]

Some port is good, some is mediocre. I can never remember the differences between "Tawny Ports" and "Reserve Ports" and all of that. Warre's Warrior is what I buy every once in a while. The ones I like are kind of like a good icewine in that they ARE think and syrupy and sweet, but they've got some real good fruit character and some good tartness to counterbalance that.

 

[jamiitreverb]

I drank a couple bottles of wine and passed out on the driveway of a home I was recording at in a gated community in a suburb of Atlanta a couple years ago. When I came to the next morning, my cellphone was next to my ear and one of said bottles was still in my hand. One of my more rockstar moments and it involved wine.

 

[pernox]

Some port is good, some is mediocre. I can never remember the differences between "Tawny Ports" and "Reserve Ports" and all of that. Warre's Warrior is what I buy every once in a while. The ones I like are kind of like a good icewine in that they ARE think and syrupy and sweet, but they've got some real good fruit character and some good tartness to counterbalance that.

True. This one had a lot of wood on it, too, which I'm a fan of. I'll have to pillage the knowledge of my port-master and see what other good examples I can find with lots of woody character. It was definitely a special treat - not something I think I'd want to tackle every night.

 

[paulthenurse]

We went to Portugal on our honeymoon and the city Porto was one of the highlights of the trip. We loved the Vila Nova de Gaia, where all of the major port houses store their port in caves. We took tours of all the caves, Sandemans was my favorite tour but Warres was my favorite port. An afternoon spent at the Institute of Port was fantastic, we talked with one of the gents who decide if that years wines are of sufficient quality to be declared a Vintage Port. He spent the afternoon pouring us different bottles and pointing out the subtleties of each and why one was a vintage and the next was not. It was a wine geeks heaven.

If you are looking for an inexpensive vacation I can't recommend Portugal enough. You can live like a king there for short money, even with the Euro the way it is. We drove into a tiny seaside fishing village in the Allagarve with no idea what we would find there. Walking around the village center an old man came up to us and by gesture asked us if we had a place to sleep for the night. We indicated we didn't and he took us along this goat path alongside a cliff to his home. We stayed in a large room with a huge balcony overlooking the Atlantic, his wife cooked us breakfast in the morning. The whole thing came to around $40. It was like that everywhere we went, once we got out of the cities. Cities are cities. Lisbon was cool, and Porto was cooler. One of the memories I'll carry with me till the day I die is driving for hours thru orange groves. Heaven must smell like that.

Now I've got to go dig out a bottle of tawny.

PTN

 

[paulthenurse]

Anyone who lives within a 6 - 8 hour drive of the Finger Lakes who doesn't make the trip at least once is doing themselves a real disservice. They make world class Rieslings and Gewurztraminers. I've been privileged to act as a judge twice at an annual competition they hold and I've got my fingers crossed that they ask me back for a third.

PTN

 

[northernlad]

About 10 years ago, I ended up with a bottle of Vintage 1925 Port. 4 years ago I opened it the day after I got married. It was the best thing i have ever concumed. It could have gone either way at that age, but it was full of chocoloate and caramel and all sorts of yummy goodness that ruined me for any other port.

 

[paulthenurse]

It might be tough to find that same '25 here in the states but I'm sure you could get it in Porto at the Vila Nova de Gaia. They have a wicked cool way of opening old bottles with 75 year old questionable corks. They have a pair of tongs, look like something out of a torture chamber. The business end of the tongs fits snugly around the end of a bottle. They take the tongs and hold them over a fire until the working end gets red hot then they clamp the end over the end of the bottle, just about 3/4 of the way down the cork. After a minute or so they remove the tongs and gently pour some water over the end of the bottle, causing the glass to crack around the neck from the temperature shock. Then they gently tease out the cork. It is a VERY impressive performance. We had two bottles opened that way when we were there and it is something you don't forget. I managed to find and buy one of the sets of tongs and have used them once since then. Wicked fun night.

I just checked, airfare Boston to Lisbon is $850. You DO have an anniversary coming up, don't you?

PTN

 

[northernlad]

I have seen the hot pliers trick on tv. It didn't occur to me that that might be what I would have to do...
I got lucky with the cork. I used patience and a huge badass corkscrew with a handle made from an old branch and got the cork out in 2 pieces.

 

[EoinMag]

If I really want to get trashed around Xmas time, I turn to brandy and port, it's a nice mix which does benefit from using good product in the mix, although possibly not a good idea to do it with really good port or really good brandy. One thing though, it'll get you trashed that's for sure.

 

[cheezydemon3]

WHAT ARE YOU ALL TALKING ABOUT????


Didn't you hear the really extra cool OP??????

Wine sucks.