Wine

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu May 27, 2004 11:52 pm

Not a huge wine fan, but I do happen to enjoy a glass of Niagara Ice Wine. Very little can be made at a time, but it's a wonderful wine. If ever in the niagara pennensula, you should check it out (if you have the money for it, that is

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Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sat May 29, 2004 2:41 am

Mad Dog 20/20. Diluted grain alcohol with kool-aid mix added. Tops for a sleazy buzz.

No Mad Dog and you're still in the mood for something seedy? Grab a bottle of Mogen David Concord wine (cheap

), drink it on ice. Chase it with beers, some Wild Turkey, and finish it off with a glass of White Grenache. Toast your ancestors, then proceed to hurl your guts up. Swear you'll never do it again, then go ahead and do it again the next night anyway.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sat May 29, 2004 5:51 am

Mad Dog 20/20. Diluted grain alcohol with kool-aid mix added. Tops for a sleazy buzz.

Chanak, you forgot the Thunderbird...

Personally, I'm pretty seasonal. I mean, I drink red, preferrably from Toscana (that's Tuscany-Italy for you low-culture lot..), all year long. Come Easter, though, as the snow starts to melt and that yellow thing in the sky suddenly appears, I suddenly switch to white. Now, white doesn't agree with me. Oh, it gives me a kick like nothing else, and since I'm a fishing/diving/sea kind of guy it's sort of a must, but the dreaded Day After is always 10 times worse than with the red. Since I don't drink hard liquor, a heavy, dry Chablis is equal to brown Tequilla for me. I must admit that I prefer European wine, though both South America and Australia make some decent plonk.

Right now I would recommend a Dumaine St.Claire Chablis 2001. Heavy on the alchol and acid, but if the sun's up and there's no day tomorrow, that one is a surfire hit. Tastes especially good with shrimp or seashells, and makes for an excellent sauce with cream if one should happen to be cooking white fish...

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:05 pm

Originally posted by Moonbiter
Chanak, you forgot the Thunderbird...

Hehe. Reminds me of the concoction some friends of mine cooked up back during Iraq Part 1. We were forbidden to have alcoholic beverages there, so these guys came up with the brilliant idea of making their own. They had some family send them a care package containing fruit c@cktail and yeast. They filled a five-gallon plastic water can with the fruit mixture, water, then dumped in the entire tin of yeast. They let it sit on the back of a truck for weeks...

The lid blew off the can about a week or so into the process, and it overflowed with yeasty froth all over the truck bed. These genuises strapped the lid back on with duct tape and let it continue fermenting.

So, the day came when they decided it was ready. A few drinks apiece and they were totally sloshed...and sick as dogs.

They had the runs for a week, and sweated yeast out of their pores for days afterwards. Shoulda had Thunderbird stashed in the care package.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:25 am

Resurrecting this one, to talk about Sancerre. YUM! I mean, I know most rampant males don't claim to enjoy white wine, but I'm firing another broadside into the sinking ship that is my über-macho image, by admitting that this summer I've been guzzling more of the stuff than ever before. Now, I live in a country where a good bender on quality plonk will cost you about a week's pay. I don't mind. You don't get Mad Dog here, and despite Thunderbird actually beeing invented by Irish monks(!) you don't get that either. There's actually laws prohibiting the sale of obviously toxic bewerages here.

But Sancerre... Oh, my! Together with freshly caught seafood on a summer day/evening, it's probably the best drink out there. Smooth, dry and with less Tanin than any other white I've ever encountered. It's perfect for spritzers, though most fans will probably string you up by the short'n'curlies for mixing it with mineral water.
Eating seafood, white meat or Pasta Carbonara?

Bourgeois Sancerre Grande Réserve 2003

What a way to go...

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:44 pm

In vino veritas!!!

Truth through wine... rite???// My latin isn't up 2 much having never learnt it evr in my life.... but i think im close

Apologies for the off topicness of the post.... but i'm 14!! I'm not a big wine drinker!!! Cider, Lager, and Vodka if we can find someone to buy us it does us just fine

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:21 pm

im with vicsun, the $3 walmart cheapy wine is the best for me, i prefere a good Arbor Mist mixed fruit white zinfendel, or wild vines white zinfendel, i guess im just an overall white zinfendel fan

only need 2 bottles to be good for the rest of the night

Lost One · Post by **Lost One** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:20 pm

You'd have to visit my family in Portugal to learn more about wine from them. Every day I visited my grandparents, I would be served wine, with no exception, during morning, afternoon and night hours. Apparently, it's unethical for a child, say of 10 years old, to drink beer. But in Portugal, to drink wine, nah, that is culturally right, no matter the age.

So yeah, I love wine. It gets you high, but does so without giving you a hangover the next day and goes down nicely and smoothly.

I drink both red and white wine. After all, it's gotta go with what you're eating. If you're eating bovine steaks and the like, then red is good. If it's fish & seafood, then white. Both taste very nice. In Portugal, there is also a special kind of wine that is not produced anywhere else in the world, which is the green wine. This wine is extremely flavory...it looks like white wine with a greenish or yellowish tinge, however it differs in a main aspect, which is that it must be consumed quickly. It does not get better with age.

As for the type of wines I can remember, I can only remember Porto and Miolo. -sigh- It's been awhile since my wine drinking days.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:29 pm

Ok. This is coming from a guy who drinks Coors Light on a regular basis and still considers it one of the best beers.

Recently my fiance has gotten me into this wine... or rather this "blush" I guess its called. Principato (Rosota or Rosato or whatever, it means Blush I think). This stuff is awsome... my question is if anyone knows of it and something else like it, so I can expand my tastes... this is the only wine i've ever really tried.

Chanak · Post by **Chanak** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:27 pm

[QUOTE=Vicsun]Sorry to blaspheme, but... I'm a really big fan of 20 kroner wine from Netto (for you non-danes, that's 3$ wine from the equivalent of Walmart)[/QUOTE]

Oooo, a European Mad Dog? w00t!

@Thug: Answer the call of the best beer on US soil. Get yerself some Samuel Adams!