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Are you a wine snob ?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Do you match your wines and know what go with what foods ... do you do the spitting and say ooo under -tones or oak and lemon . Thay have this on the bottles i can never tell myself . And some of them reds you pay loads for still are so ruff ... not really into alot of wines had one at Rick steans place in cornwall said under tones or petrol and it had i sent it back . lol give me champagne and i am happy with tescos its fine like most. lol   |
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Not a wine snob, but I do know what I like and yes will match wines to courses for a dinner party as the type of food being served can kill a wine and/or the food.
Many years ago I had a glass of wine which cost £60.00. Enjoyed it, but would say I've had ones as good that cost £6.00 a bottle.
I find that who you are drinking with and where you are drinking can make a huge difference.
A bottle of wine costing £2.00, dunk with good company in the sun can taste like the nextar of the gods. Bring it back to rainy England and can taste like something else from the gods |
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Im ok with rioja and i like a nice cava sometimes but that is it.
Im quite happy for people to appreciate good wine, talk to me about it ect. But some people go on and on and on like they are a class above you just because you dont "appreciate" it |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A £3.99 bottle of shiraz will do me fine."
and i bet thats alot better then some you would pay 10.99 for too . I have gone down the road of paying alot for bottles and found them to be so bad .
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By *un_JuiceCouple
over a year ago
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Love wine. Our opinion isn't determined by it being fashionable nor influenced by price. We can certainly appreciate it's quality regardless of the above.
Prefer French for whites mainly Chablis & Gewurtztraminer
Chilean/Aussie/Italian reds.
Aussie/Italian Rose' & Blush |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Most white wine I drink with soda, so a waste on me really. I do enjoy a red with a meal - but enjoy lager also.
Just leave me with a G&T and I'm happiest |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"not a wine buff at all , just know mixing vodka wine sambuca and some jagerbomb things in one night is not good for head 
Drinking doesn't cause Hangovers, waking up does "
need to go back to sleep again then |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"As a former Head Wine Steward on the QE2 I would suggest that you don't rely on other peoples taste. Find a wine that you like and enjoy it, cost doesn't make it better only more expensive. "
and i think its the same for champagne too .. 12.99 to 100 a bottle i could not tell . like both. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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when i was married to ex hubby i suppose you could say i was a bit of a wine snob. he joined a wine club so we got to sample many. but last year when i was touring Italy for 2 months the most i paid for a bottle of any red was 1 euro from Lidl. thinking if its shite i have only paid a pittance for it. guess what, each bottle was lovely |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I like punch red wine orange juice with spices and oranges and lemons drink it warm and over xmas we will have alot of that here for friends and family . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I won a bottle of Black Tower in a raffle, one glass and the rest went down the sink, utter shite.
I organised a corporate hospitality do in London and was allowed to have what wasn't drank one opened and four unopened bottles of claret, they were £150 a bottle. The customer was a wine buff and chose them.
I was going to give them as gifts but drank the opened bottle of claret and thought I'll not give those away, I could really get used to being a millionaire. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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well over the years mixing with the Royles with my job doing there dinner partys and things i have had some of the best wines and still i cant tell ... thats claret mosels all sorts .. not sure why maybe somthing wrong with me . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"not a wine buff at all , just know mixing vodka wine sambuca and some jagerbomb things in one night is not good for head
As in giving? "
could have done but I just might have up chucked  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If it's in a bottle or a barrel I'll drink it.
what are you like with teaspoons?
some liquors are potent lol "
I could do with lane here .. my wine tester , lol had this bottle was just like petrol ... Riszling said young with under tones of pertrol and it was ........ and yukk put me right of my dinner.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like wine and know what I like but don't get pretentious with it. A good wine for me is one I like lol and have found a range of Scottish fruit wines I adore so I'm a happy gurly |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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there is so much shit spoken about wine ,and there as a lot of bloody snobs out there ,i have spent the last 20 years dealing with wine and beer in my own pubs and very posh hotels ,and i have tasted wines that cost 100s and wine 3.99 and there are crap at all price ranges ,and some people who go out to inpress by swilling and sniffing ,are just making cunts of themselfs,because i no they are talking shit |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If it's in a bottle or a barrel I'll drink it.
what are you like with teaspoons?
some liquors are potent lol I could do with lane here .. my wine tester , lol had this bottle was just like petrol ... Riszling said young with under tones of pertrol and it was ........ and yukk put me right of my dinner. "
I sometimes think the wine critics are trying to keep it all for themselves.
I remember I Oz Clarke describing a wine to be full fruity flavour with a hint of well worn plimsoll.
How does he know does he go round tennis clubs licking them. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"there is so much shit spoken about wine ,and there as a lot of bloody snobs out there ,i have spent the last 20 years dealing with wine and beer in my own pubs and very posh hotels ,and i have tasted wines that cost 100s and wine 3.99 and there are crap at all price ranges ,and some people who go out to inpress by swilling and sniffing ,are just making cunts of themselfs,because i no they are talking shit"
well as long as i am not the only one who dont get the wine thing i feel better now . lol
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We've been members of wine clubs, but now only join to get their opening offer crate at a hugely reduced price then ring up and cancel.
Big fan of picking up a few bottles reduced in the supermarkets when on offer. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If it's in a bottle or a barrel I'll drink it.
what are you like with teaspoons?
some liquors are potent lol "
The strongest liquors I have ever quaffed, (apart from Absinthe) were Irish Poitin and Italian Grappa .... both home made and akin to rocket fuel in potency and taste!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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No as I am not bothered about drinking nor am I one of those people who have a glass at night when they get home and very little I eat has wine with it ie chicken and mushroom pasta and chips |
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"If it's in a bottle or a barrel I'll drink it.
what are you like with teaspoons?
some liquors are potent lol
The strongest liquors I have ever quaffed, (apart from Absinthe) were Irish Poitin and Italian Grappa .... both home made and akin to rocket fuel in potency and taste! "
As they say, how does a french woman hold her liqour.
By the ears. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do like good wine and am prepared to pay good money for it. I have invested in it as well via dealers, it's the only investment that has out performed property over the last 30 years |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"well over the years mixing with the Royles with my job doing there dinner partys and things i have had some of the best wines and still i cant tell ... thats claret mosels all sorts .. not sure why maybe somthing wrong with me . "
was that Jim Royle, my arse  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's like some people like real ales and others think they all taste too strong.
Suz's dad (and his dad before and....) stored wines. They bought them when they were cheap and they were kept at the wine merchants for decades.
For our weddding day, he gave us a bottle of wine that IF you could find to buy was worth (in 1981) a few thousand. Did it taste good? def yes. Did it taste like £1000? nope.
But to Suz's dad it cost total about £20 and it was worth that.
There are lots of good wines at the supermarkets these days. but it depends what you like and as a lot of our food has gone sweeter, people tend to like the sweeter things. A lot of food is selected for its sweetness.
We love a good claret with some Stilton in the evenings.
But then again I love real ales and do not like larger lol
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