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  • GNEP
    Super MURCer
    • Feb 2002
    • 5241

    #1

    What wine?

    Well? New world? Old world? Red? White? Grape?

    Personally, I am a great fan of rich red cab/merlots; and a nice pouilly fume is fantastic on a warm afternoon No expert though.

    Or beer? (Somehow here I suspect this one...)

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    Oh yes... I can smell which vineyard the wine is from at 50 yards
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    I like a bottle of the stuff with dinner, and heh, can even recognise the grape once in a while!
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    Yup, any old plonk as long as it's cheap...
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    Wine? What's that? I like BEER!
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  • Technoid
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 7645

    #2
    Corking up bottles is fun
    I used to do this all the time I grew up and I usually smelled the wine
    I don’t like the stuff at all, but I’m pretty good at telling wich kind of wine and if it tastes good (according to others I as said don’t drink the sour stuff)….
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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    • cjolley
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 1999
      • 7672

      #3
      Give a try to a nice Australian Sheraz.
      Yellow Tail would be a good start.
      Just had a glass.
      chuck

      PS They make wonderful Merlot and Chardony too.
      Chuck
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      • thop
        Super MURCer
        • Mar 2001
        • 2536

        #4
        i can quote homer:

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        • Sethos
          MURCer
          • Oct 2002
          • 594

          #5
          Personaly I'm an all round lover of anything alchaholic for the purpose of the wine/beer itself, In other words I actually do appreciate the taste, and the process that was used to produce 'x' vintage. We wern't brought up to drink to get drunk in my house, if you know what I mean. So personally I enjoy a nice rich robust Red, but also a nice sweet light white can be good at times. But one can't forget the ports or the sheries out there either. Beer is great too personaly I prefet dark foreign (ie European) for drinking, but also cooking. Often times all forms of alchahol have some good qulaity even if it is just it's alchahol content for flaming say banannas foster...so...that's my babble on the subject.

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          • ZokesPro
            Serial Murcerer
            • Sep 2000
            • 8325

            #6
            I love Ice Wine, that's the only wine I can drink without making a funny face. And it's oh so tasty.
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            • Dr Mordrid
              Moderator
              • Apr 2001
              • 26592

              #7
              White or red, according to the meal. Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Blanc etc. I like some of our local Michigan wines and the Californias, but it looks like California is going to be bad for a year or two so later on I'll have to pass on some of them.

              Of course a great French, German or Italian is nice

              Brandy on a cold night isn't too bad either.....

              Dr. Mordrid
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              • Gurm
                MS Fanboy
                • Aug 1999
                • 11460

                #8
                I have recently discovered the joys of Sherry. Mmm, mmm.

                'Course the wife gets annoyed when I pour myself a nice snifterfull, darken the lights in the living room, and blast Steve Perry.

                ('Course I just do it to annoy her...)

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                • Dogbert

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
                  White or red, according to the meal. Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Blanc etc. I like some of our local Michigan wines and the Californias, but it looks like California is going to be bad for a year or two so later on I'll have to pass on some of them.

                  Of course a great French, German or Italian is nice

                  Brandy on a cold night isn't too bad either.....

                  Dr. Mordrid
                  Amen to that.
                  Try Portuguise wines, you'll be surprised how good they are, and while you're at it, try a good Porto...

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                  • [GDI]Raptor
                    Super MURCer
                    • Jan 2001
                    • 1045

                    #10
                    I like red-wine
                    The Spanish Rioja wines are very good....

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                    • RhinoZ
                      MURCer
                      • Jul 2001
                      • 843

                      #11
                      I brew my own. Well almost on my own, been doing it with my father for the past 20 years. And I must say we make a beautiful tasting red and a fine white wine, not too strong like a lot of home brews but good enough that you can drink a bottle of wine at dinner and feel happy about it afterwards. We use the Malagra and Barbera grapes, and we start from scratch. We crush them, press them and let them fermet. The process starts in September and usually its ready by Christmas.
                      If I ever have to buy a bottle I found a nice little diamond in a wine from Hungary called St. Stephan's Crown, but get the Sauvingnon it's dark and heavy like other Merlots. It's Merlot is a very very dark red wine. Only great for these cold Canadian winters nights in front of a fireplace.

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                      • GNEP
                        Super MURCer
                        • Feb 2002
                        • 5241

                        #12
                        Agree with the Rioja - I have been through a phase of picking them recently

                        I have actually formed a "Theory of Travel" based on wine: go wherever the wine grows - the climate will be good, and so will the evenings... so far it has taken me to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, South Africa and Chile - the fiance has just been in Oz and NZ, so the next one will have to be California I guess...
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                        • KeiFront
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                          • Sep 2001
                          • 2668

                          #13
                          Another homer quote:

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                          • Strahd
                            Super MURCer
                            • Jun 2000
                            • 960

                            #14
                            Am I the only one here that knows nothing about wine yet still enjoys even a cheaper wine?

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                            • Greebe
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                              • Aug 1999
                              • 8555

                              #15
                              Man I miss my Thunderbird and Boone's Farm "Tickle Pink"


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                              (can't drink the stuff... the sulfite preservatives causes me, like ~20% of the population to have asthma... yeah safe compound ya got there... sure can tell the FDA is ontop of things
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