Can someone explain wine to me...

[Hoov]

Juke,

find an itallian restaurant in your area that offers a wine pairing event.

I found this great itallian restaurant in my area, family owned and operated, the real deal with a piano player on friday nights and a singer on satruday nights.

So they offer a wine pairing event every 2-3 months on a sunday afternoon. You get a 4 course meal and a different wine paired with each course, and someone talks to you about each type of wine as they serve it and so forth, usually its 45 dollars a person, and its always been a great time.

I have to admit the speaker is a little boring for me, but by the 3rd course i dont really hear anything he is saying, LOL.

But seriously, i have found some great red wines that are unbeleivably tatsy (and i am a beer guy through and through).

 

[CliffnDallas]

You are right to hate it. It taste's like crap.

 

[Juke99]

There's a lovely red I like. I think you would too.


Red Wine

Nyquil..the moonshine of medicine...it comes in two flavors...green and red...and it's the only thing on the planet that tastes like the colors, green and red.

Lewis Black.

 

[Hostile]

Nyquil..the moonshine of medicine...it comes in two flavors...green and red...and it's the only thing on the planet that tastes like the colors, green and red.

Lewis Black.

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[Juke99]

I can't stand the taste of wine. It tastes like crap and upsets my stomach.

Everything upsets your stomach...even posting here.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Nyquil..the moonshine of medicine...it comes in two flavors...green and red...and it's the only thing on the planet that tastes like the colors, green and red.

Lewis Black.

Lewis Black kills me

 

[WV Cowboy]

I don't like any wine that I have tasted, except Lambrusco, ... which I love.

Go figure.

 

[Juke99]

Lewis Black kills me

Now that guy is the ultimate New Yorker...

Do you have his DVD's?

 

[Yeagermeister]

Now that guy is the ultimate New Yorker...

Do you have his DVD's?

No I have only seen a couple of his specials on tv.

 

[jterrell]

I am a fan of Pinot Grigio and Texas Reds.

I drink the Red because it helps my heart and I have enough Heart Disease in the family to scare anyone into sucking down some grapes.

The dish does make a big difference.

I am slowly getting into the boxed wines too. I know its serious trailer stuff but my 6 year old already broke one bottle of Texas Red and we were just thankful it wasn't on her foot. I used to give my wife grief about grabbing boxed wine at the Wal-Mart but she now has the snappy kid killer comeback for me.

Texas Red is really great with chocolate dipped strawberries. Found that out by accident but its now a favorite.

 

[royhitshard]

I am excruciatingly jealous over people who like wine....They make it sound like sooooo much fun...and it sounds so damn sophisticated...yet everytime I try it, red or white, I hate it...

I am fearful I am doomed to being low class for the rest of my life..and don't get me wrong, I like ordering chocolate milk with my dinner at a restaurant..but I am tired of the looks I am getting from the waitors....

So, what's the secret?

Beer is the answer, and when you think you want more wine, have another beer! Nothing wrong with being low class...just ask me. :

 

[TruBlueCowboy]

Beer is the answer, and when you think you want more wine, have another beer! Nothing wrong with being low class...just ask me. :

I saw an interesting documentary on the mini ice age that hit our planet from roughly 1300 to 1800 A.D. Because of this ice age, grapes didn't grow nearly as well as they do in today's North American climate, and so beer, whisky and other grain-based products became the staple alcoholic beverages in our country. Most of the immigrants in this country were wine drinkers. If not for that mini ice age, today we might be going to a grocery store or gas station and picking through five sections of wine and only one section of beer, as opposed to the current model which is exactly opposite.

And regarding wine, a funny story from my college days. So here I am your typical partying college student, and my boss hosts a huge charity event in which Messina Hof, the Texas winery, was one of the sponsors. Anyways, Messina Hof sent this event boxes and boxes of just about every label they make. They sent too many and my boss was left with at least ten boxes (probably 12 bottles in each box) of various wines that he had no desire to keep. So not wanting to throw them away he asks me if I want them, and being the poor working (but partying) student I was, it took me about a half a sec to say yes. Needless to say, there were plenty of festivities at my pad for at least a month, only instead of kegs, we were some wine drinkin' fools.

 

[DallasCowpoke111]

eedless to say, there were plenty of festivities at my pad for at least a month,

Hey thanks for the story Link... Tell Peggy Lipton I said "peace".

 

[ROMOSAPIEN9]

Mad dog 20/20

That's all you really need to know.

 

[Crown Royal]

Mad dog 20/20

That's all you really need to know.

Even as a college student in debt I never became that hard up.

 

[Juke99]

I'd like to thank everyone here for their input...this weekend, I am going to sit down with a nice glass of wine....and Cbz's pea salad.

The way I figure, no matter how bad the wine is, it'll taste wonderful when compared to the pea salad.

Wish me luck.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I'd like to thank everyone here for their input...this weekend, I am going to sit down with a nice glass of wine....and Cbz's pea salad.

The way I figure, no matter how bad the wine is, it'll taste wonderful when compared to the pea salad.

Wish me luck.

I hope your insurance is paid up

 

[Kangaroo]

I am excruciatingly jealous over people who like wine....They make it sound like sooooo much fun...and it sounds so damn sophisticated...yet everytime I try it, red or white, I hate it...

I am fearful I am doomed to being low class for the rest of my life..and don't get me wrong, I like ordering chocolate milk with my dinner at a restaurant..but I am tired of the looks I am getting from the waitors....

So, what's the secret?

Juke I learn to never envy something that is so over rated like wine

Wine is for the pansy; snobby yuppies there I said it

Ok now on to real stuff a mans drink to show them you are no pansy Dark Beers trust me it is way better than any wine :beer1:

If you want to be more CEO power broker (like wearing a red tie the power drink like the power tie) it is Scotch on the rocks or Scotch and water and not that cheap arse belnded stuff either single malt.

Now if you just want to be the high society yuppie type but do not get wine you can always do Cognac it is a sophistaced high society drink if not Cognac you can play the Brandy game to and come off as an old school yuppie

Me give me the Real man or the power tie drink myself :nana:

 

[Kangaroo]

Even as a college student in debt I never became that hard up.

I drank a whole bottle of Maddog in Highschool years (only once)

The stupidest drink I ever did was what we called a Water Buffalo (When I worked at a bar in college) which is everything that is in the little rubber mat the jigger sits on that catches everything that spills you pick it up poor it in the glass and slam it

:insane:

 

[Yeagermeister]

I drank a whole bottle of Maddog in Highschool years (only once)

The stupidest drink I ever did was what we called a Water Buffalo (When I worked at a bar in college) hich is everything that is in the little rubber mat the jigger sits on that catches everything that spills you pick it up poor it in the glass and slam it

:insane:

uke: