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I'm 20, of course I don't know how to pick a good wine. That said, I haven't even tried wine since I was about 18, and I decided I'd rather drink whiskey.


If the water used in ice is sourced from the same place as the whiskey, it isn't blasphemy. Although, that's really hard to do when you drink Scotch and live in Canada. I've mostly only drunk Rum since I've been in Canada, since booze is insanely expensive here.

Cheese tastes like smelly feet. It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would want to willingly ingest something that foul.

The only reason I eat it as a condiment is because it's easier/faster to not order without cheese, and the synthesized kind used in most of that food doesn't really taste of anything anyway.

I guess it's an acquired taste. I used to eat it as a kid, but I can't even imagine why I'd want to do that now. I hated coffee as a kid, though, but now I've found that it tastes like win and awesome.

Whiskey and cheese and wine are all delicious. Maybe not all at once though.

Cheese and wine do pair nicely though.

Cheap whiskey does often call for a mixer. Good whiskey with a single ice cube is super A+.

Grilled cheese sammiches and tomato soup is, by far, the ultimate lunch combination.

I feel left out. I've never had a grilled cheese sammich. Although ,I can vouch for tomato soup being awesome, only if it's Heinz. Strangely, even though it's out a tin, I still prefer it to home made soup. Maybe it's cause I grew up having it when I was ill, and it always made me feel better.

Also: Aeth, are you a fan of Meshuggah? I can't remember if I've asked you that before.

Yiddish word, what?

And haha. I'm way too amused by the fact that on Wednesday, I will be in a situation where German me is in Pakistan and my Pakistani BF is in Germany. I've had the same with a British one before, but this is far more awesome.

You probably just haven't exposed yourself to enough different types then. A white zinfandel tastes very different from say, a riesling or a chardonnay. And I don't even know that much about wine.

Actually, if you're talking about wines, there are a bunch of different types. Red, white, and rosé is a very simplistic approach (and technically you should also add port), but even within each of the three varietals you've named, you're going to favor some over others. For instance, a cab is vastly different in most cases to a pinot noir. They will have a completely different body, and they will open differently (a cab should always sit open for ~20 minutes so it can aerate, where a pinot noir will be drinkable almost immediately).

Under the heading of white wine you'll also have desert wines, champagne, sparkling wine, etc.

It's a bit too simplistic to say that you want red wine, because while some red wine will really enhance the flavor of a steak, some will dull the flavors.


Trust me, I could show you the difference between a good wine and a bad wine. My first bottle was a bottle of Sea Smoke (pretty tough to find and moderately expensive, can go for ~$80 a bottle if you're lucky but in restaurants will be $300+), and since then I've tried to buy as much wine as I can to try everything. I've had amazing bottles at $7 a bottle, and I've had ****** wines at $30 a bottle.

The thing is even from year to year at the same winery the same exact wine will taste differently because of how the grapes grow (thus why some years are much more expensive than others). Similar to aging whisky (or scotch, etc), the weather and the quality of the soil the grapes are grown in will have a massive affect on the wine.

I've been learning about wine since I was 12 and tasting since my teen years, and at 27 I still am overwhelmed and happy with how much I have left to learn about wine.

If it's not your kind of thing, fine, but don't say that you can't taste the difference between reds when you can differentiate between one whisky and another (it's incredibly easy).


Yes, exactly. If you need some advice about what to buy, that's easy and readily available. There are a lot of good wines out there that don't cost an arm and a leg (my average bottle is about $15-20).

Grab a bottle of cabernet and a bottle of pinot noir and taste each. They're worlds apart. A decent pinot noir is going to be smooth; a decent cab is going to be more tart and unpleasant to someone that doesn't drink wine regularly.

I like reds more than whites by far with wines, with Beaujolais being my favorite variety.

A good Riesling I will drink but I prefer to stay away from whites.

Also, I got the sudden urge to make something crafty at 11pm at night. My brain is weird. Specifically, I want to either do needlepoint or make myself a corset. neither of which I can really do at the moment. Bah.

One of my friends from highschool did this. (I guess I have to tag this as NSFW language?)

I don't know if you've asked but not really. I can appreciate the skill but I prefer the sludge/doom kind of heaviness over the very technical stuff. (With Death being an obvious example because how could anyone not love Death?)
Meshuggah is good but their music just doesn't do it for me although I can't say why exactly.

I can easily tell the difference between wines, but I'm not really good at naming the different smells and tastes like I can with beer, wine still mostly just taste like wine to me and I can usually tell what about it that makes me like or dislike it but I can't pinpoint flavours like I can with beer. I just haven't drank that much wine so I can imagine that someone who has had very little wine it all tastes more or less the same, especially if they haven't had any good wines.

Oddly enough I can pretty much do the tasting thing with whiskey yet I have had very little good whiskey in my life. And staying away from that too, my wallet cannot deal with an obsession for whiskey.

Also also, cheap sweet white wine is absolutely disgusting. It's like the girl version of a case of super cheap beer to get drunk off of.

What Horsey said.

My mom is pretty crazy about wine too so she usually has pretty good wine. And wine is so much cheaper in France, it's kind of silly.

And I now want to see a pic of Rio in all traditional Scottish clothing. That'd be cool.

I honestly have no idea. The people I lived with then usually stock up loads of wine every time they go (once a year) that is around $50/bottle and that one was more expensive than that. IIRC it was Sauvignon? I have no idea about this kinda stuff.

I just didn't have enough money to buy my own cooking wine, haha, and I was cooking for them so they let me use it.

Sweet wines are kinda disgusting, imo.