Wine!..thread

“It has been almost two years since I got sick with Lymes Disease. I wasn't able to drink alchohol without feeling lousy for a couple of days afterwards, but this seems to have finally passed.

My husband was up at Watkins Glen for a car race this summer, and visited the local vineyards with a friend. One of the wines he came home with was a Glenora Vineyards Port. It was really good, a lot like a merlot. This was the first wine from a U.S. vineyard outside of the west coast that I really enjoyed.

With the holidays coming up, I thought I would start a wine thread. What are your favorites?”

“Merlot - Firestone 95'”

“Cabs, zins. Merlot's kinda bland. Don't like whites or sweet wines/ports.”

“I like zins best meself.”

“mad dog 20 20”

“Thunderbird”

“Champipple”

“Columbia crest all of them, merlot and zins. Any beer will do. Thanks for reminding me, the wine cabinet is mt.”

“Italian red.

New Zealand Sauvigon Blanc”

“Pino Grigio (sp) by Santa Margherita..

What a classy wine!”

“Yes, the Pinot Grigio by Santa Margherita is great, I agree!”

“I like the white wine from South America w/ the picture of the cat and the little cat charm that comes w/ the bottle. Gato Blanco . . . maybe.”

“Try this for fun: 1/2 red wine, 1/2 orange soda, ice. YUM!”

“Undurraga, a nice Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon from the Maipo Valley”

“When it comes to white wines, I am unsophisticated and easy to please. I like Pinot Grigio, or go get varietals from Cali like Chenin Blanc and White Zinfandel.
But for Red, I love the powerful intense old fashioned Italians, like an old Barolo by Mascarello. Normally, though I buy Spanish, Italian or Australian wine (like Wolf Blass yellow label) or a California Zinfandel.

I confess to taking a bottle of wine on short (one night), fairly flat backpacking trips.”

“Yummy sour grapes! Actually if I have more than one glass of any wine, red, white, or pink, it will give me a screaming headache. I had a glass of some really good Pinot Grigio from Oregon a while ago that was very good but I forgot the name.”

“LOL, REPTILES, I used to get a two day headache.”

“Reptiles, if you get a headache from wine, try one with no aded sulfites. Or try organically grown wines. They have sulfite levels of less than 100 parts per million by law. Non-organic can have up to something like 350 parts per million.

After starting to drink organic, NSA (no added sulfite)wines, I've found that more than a a glass of non-organic can give me a headache. NSA wines also tend to be a little higher on the alcohol content...not to mention the price.

A couple of my favorite wines...

Frey vineyards Syrah (Organic, NSA--California).

Summerhill Pinot Noir (Organic, low sulfite--Canada).

Kristin Hill Pinot Noir, Gewurtztraminer (Oregon)

Ravenswood Zinfindel (California)

General types of wine

Muscadet (it's a type, not a winery...very dry, fantastic w/ shellfish...don't let them sell you MUSCAT!)

Cotes du Rhone (French)

Chianti

so many to choose from!”

“Boones Farm Strawberry Hill $1.09 a quart. Ahhhhhh.....
Woops, I somehow jumped back to 1973. My bad.”

“clear moonlit night... campfire...
two wine glasses...
My kind of night”

“Penfold's Shiraz-cab any Penfold's really but that one in particular!! For whites a good Pouilly-Fuisse or a Pinot Grigio I look for Chilean' or Australian first then anything different just to see what's out there”

“You're talkin' to someone who resides in the heart of California's premier wine region... there are over 300 wineries alone here, and 40,000 acres of planted vinyard. No one could live long enough to try them all... dammit.”

“I prefer a bold wine with a nice bouque and a robust oaky flavor.”

“Pennsy, it was TJ Swan, Easy Days and Mellow Nights for me,,,,,LOL.”

“The good ole days, eh? When we had a few extra pennies, we'd splurge for some Blue Nun.”

“i get the feeling everyone here is grey-haired”

“Pinot Noirs Pinot Noirs Pinot Noirs (Red)

I hate sweet wine

Sweet whiners too”

“But think of the fun you can have trying Obi Wan!!!!!!!!!!!! It's alway's five O clock somewhere”

“What's hair?”

“20. IM not old
oh and dont you just love that wine in a box thingy?”

“and your point is what, Vixen???”

“hee hee hee”

“Yes, what hair I have is gray but I have earned every one of them. I agree with obi, attend to many (or not enough) wine festivals.”

“i say that forget wine! you can drink so much more beer”

“Solitary hiker is my favorite wine(r)”

“2% milk”

“wild irish rose. in a brown bag, please!”

“Any alcohol is good for you my doktor says. A half rack a day will keep that doktor away.”

“So it's "Obi Wine canoli." OK. ;-)

My favorite whine?
"I wanna go hiking!"”

“Hey PENNSEY! What about Delicious Apple? Another fine product from the Boone's Farm family.”

“Hey PedXing, You have class. My folks pulled a Wolf Blass Yellow Label 1981 cab sav shiraz out from under the bed and it was sublime, angels wept.

If you like Aussie wines, try some from the Yarra Valley. Look for the De Bortoli Windy Peak Cab/Shiraz/ Merlot.”

“I like wine...
Beer's good too...
I'm a sweet whiner...
And sing in the loo...
Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Okay, so I can't sing, either(whine)”

“Free wine is my fave.”

“Like RuPaul sez:

Champale, babeeeeeeeeeee!”

“RuPaul, LOL!!

i like Schmit Sohne riesling...if i'm in a sweet mood ;-)”

“Pennsy: Wolf Blass is usually a pretty good buy.

Pennsy: LOL on Boones Farm. First time I ever got drunk it was Boones Farm. I was pretty young and my friend and I each had a bottle. He got sick at his stomach and I was obnoxious enough to gloat about my being able to handle it better than he was. He sucker punched in the stomach and soon my digestion was no better than his. (There Pennsy, that should stamp out any illusion that I have class).”

“LOL Ped!! That's class in my book! I'm getting woozey just thinking about this but we used to have a contest to see who could chug the most without spewing.

BB, I forgot about Delish Apple. Too many brain cells got lost in those contests, but I think I remember a grape flavor that was to die (literally!) for.”

“2% milk! Tea you crack me up. You aren't a 16 yr. old Spanish guitar player are you?







Kidding! Most Spanish kids spell better in English than you do.”

“Wild Horse Vineyards. The Merlot and Pinot Noir are FABULOUS!!

There is an Italian Pinot Grigio that I love and I can't for the life of me remember the name right now, dang. Starts with a G and the bottle is blue witha dragon fly on it.
grumble, grumble, the first thing to go is the mind.

I too have been known to take a bottle of wine on a hike, not to mention taking a nalgene of Mr. Glen.”

“Ooops... it was Bunyip that made the remarks about Wolf Blass and class! (given my typos and confusion about who I was talking to, I'd say my brain cells were in an uproar just thinking about Boones Farm).”