What are you people drinking these days? I'm very partial to Cotes du Rhones now. There are a few $20-ish bottles out there that are pretty titties. Bordeaux too. There's a Spanish Rioja called Proximo that's $10 which finds it's way onto my table very regularly. I love white wine though. Good Pouilly-Fume from the Loire valley, Or Pouilly-Fuisse from Burgundy. Gewurztraminer from Alsace is an amazing white that tastes like the minerals in the soil where the grapes are grown. Perfect with a plate of raw oysters and a crab cake. Perhaps you guys should stop drinking Carlo Rossi's jug wine. Though I like that guy, he makes both kinds of wine, red and white. Sangria is awesome. Rioja red, some brandy, peach schnapps, little pineapple juice, fresh cut apples, pears, peaches, some grapes. Fucking sex.
My family just got back from a trip which included some time in Tuscany. Had some "Super-Tuscans" for the first time, that is, Italian style wines made with Bordeaux grapes as opposed to the typical Sangiovese that normally make up a Chianti. They are GOOD. We have a case in transit from a winery housed in one of Machiavelli's old villas, which tastes of power, wealth, and subterfuge. Also some Morellino di Scansano which is good stuff as well. Speaking of white wines, at dinner, we had a special house blend made for the restaurant we were at that was a Chianti blend without the skins, so it was essentially a red wine in taste and body but looked and felt like a white. It was crazy.
That sounds like the pre-mixed stuff my girlfriend used to bring with her to the cottage. She'd get ripped on "Girls' Night Out", which contained more liquid sugar than a case of Coca Cola, and wonder why she had a hangover the next morning. I tried a sip of the stuff and nearly yakked. Too sweet. No bueno.
More Zima for me!* I can't drink rum. I've tried it in numerous forms. CJ knows the deal. *Disclaimer: Never had Zima. Is it a sports' drink? Kidding! Um, never had it for real though. Sounds perfect.
For the most part my wife and I only drink red wine at home. Usually it's some form of pinot noir. I prefer cabernet, but the wife likes pinot so I just go with it. I will occasionally drink white wine, but that only occurs if I'm cooking with it. Usually if a recipe calls for white wine I'll buy a nice bottle of sauvignon blanc and drink what I'm not using while I'm cooking. It's always a good idea to keep the chef well lubricated.
I made some wonderful Sangria on vacation last week, however I am ignorant and inexperienced with wine itself. I guess if I became a wine drinker I would probably go with red because oenophiles are tell me that's the wine for cigars and/or meat. You sold me right there.
Everyone's got a little Captain in them! I think somebody must've had a puking experience, or maybe a lesbian experience with rum in their past and is holding onto some bad memories. Maybe a lesbian puking experience. Rum was the first thing I got drunk on in high school. Bacardi 151 and Coke. One of my friends drank Rum & Coke all the time. I was like, "dude, I don't drink, what should I start with?" He said, "Coors light is pretty tame." So, I tried that. Coors light sucks ass, and I said to him, "Coors light sucks ass." So, he suggested, "try rum and Coke. It tastes like Coke." It did. He said he used Bacardi rum, so when I bought some (God, I was 16 - that liquor store was ridiculous, because no way in hell I looked 21), I thought the 151 bottle looked cooler, and had no idea it was higher proof. Later, I passed out in my other friend's parents master bathroom. I threw up a lot. (I was later consoled by the girl I would later lose my virginity to - high five!) Anyway, with the previous KFC mention earlier, most of you are too young to remember this. But, back in the mid '80s, before KFC was Yum! foods and only sold Pepsi (yuk), they sold liters of Coke in the drive through. It was the big wax cup thing, with a little plastic clip at the top and a straw hole. You could unfold the plastic clip, pour in the rum, fold it back over and "Im just drinking a Coke, mom!" Ballgames, parties, shopping, gym class, etc.
The only bottle of wine in my house is from NZ and it's called "Cat's Pee On A Gooseberry Bush". I believe it's an 1886 blanc.
Rum was my liquor of choice back in high school. Captain Morgan Silver to be exact, although that's probably because it was my old boss' favorite too (she was buying). I'm only half-judging because I can't smell tequila without dry-heaving a little. Or dip, man that stuff makes me nauseous. Red wine is great. Sangria in the summer and mulled wine in the winter. Oh yes we aren't leaving a big pot of mulled wine on the stove out of this discussion. I whipped up dinner for my girlfriend last night and grilled some turkey burgers. Got a little more buzzed than expected sipping on Tito's vodka mixed with grapefruit juice and diet 7-up in the process. Very smooth. My girlfriend loved it too.
Last night I had some hard root beer. I'm glad I tried it but wouldn't do it again. Waaaay too sweet.
Wear something pretty to give you confidence. That always helps. You mean waaaay too delicious. How can something be too sweet?
About two years ago, when we were just friends, the gf says to me "White wine is for whores." or prostitutes or something like that. Now, up until that point I never had a preference. I switched on and off to keep trying new stuff, and stuck to the food rules (white meat = white wine, red meat red wine). Then I found myself drinking it to be drinking and it always was red. I also realized I knew a few girls who drank exclusively white wines and they were in fact of lower moral character... Probably at a 75% red to 25% white ratio now, but yeah, ever since I heard that, much less white wine.
Depends. Is the "recital" at his house, at 9 PM at night? And, did he suggest you come alone and wear something comfortable? Has he been practicing whistling around you lately?