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Qeldroma
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21 Dec 2007, 7:53pm

Who's Wining?

I'm your basic brew and margarita fan. Wines are not my thing- so pardon me if I don't know close to dirt about them.

However, last weekend I was invited with a few dozen others (I guessed about 60) to a wine and cheese party by my boss. >gulp!<

Of course, he has the thing fully and formally catered with cheeses, meatballs, chicken wings, (all the stuff to make a meal in itself), and about fifty vintages from the US, Italy, France, Germany and Australia. There were cross-sections of Sirahs, Merlots, Chardonnays, Cabernet Sauvignons, Pinot Grigios, Zinfandels ....

We were simply to pick the one we liked the best.

I picked the blush 2006 Beringer Zinfandel.

You know what? So did nearly everyone else!

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Qeldroma edited : 21 Dec 2007 at 8:03pm . Reason: typos
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21 Dec 2007, 7:55pm
Smooth. Have you read this? I can't think about wine tastings without the story coming to mind.
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21 Dec 2007, 7:59pm
Good on ya!

(I hate wine so much)
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21 Dec 2007, 8:08pm
Quoting Buddy Jesus
Smooth. Have you read this? I can't think about wine tastings without the story coming to mind.
Yikes! Just don't send it to my boss if you're looking for a job ...
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21 Dec 2007, 8:20pm
Wish your boss were my boss!
(I hate wine so much)
Gotta leave that Mad Dog 20-20 alone, Thrax.
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21 Dec 2007, 10:06pm
I read the wine column in the WSJ every week.
Their motto is 'try it'.
I have always been a red wine guy. Nice big, dry ones.
Now I am playing with some whites.
Go to a good wine store during a week day and spend an hour with the owner.
You will leave with a case of wine for under $150 and have a lot of fun trying some new things. There are a lot of very good reasonably priced wines.
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21 Dec 2007, 10:40pm
Quoting edcentric
I have always been a red wine guy. Nice big, dry ones.
I'm a white fan and one I really like is a german wine called Rheingraienberg 2005.
Myself I don't like the red haven't found one yet, but do try new reds every now and again
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22 Dec 2007, 4:02am
Quoting Leonardo
Gotta leave that Mad Dog 20-20 alone, Thrax.


Just remember that MAD DOG spelled backwards is.......GOD DAM !

I gotsta have me some of that "god dam" wine !!




I prefer Boones Farm or maybe some Night train





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22 Dec 2007, 4:10am
I've just lost all hope in humanity.
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22 Dec 2007, 4:13am
When I was dating my wife, her best friend was the daughter of a vintner in Germany's best wine producing region in Germany, Baaden-Wuertemberg. I was fortunate to learn the wine process, the elements of vineyards success, and learned how to really appreciate wine. I've been hooked ever since.
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22 Dec 2007, 12:08pm
We like the berry Merlots and the Zinfandels here.
Then again we are big seafood eaters and like it with the meal.
Well, maybe one or two after also. You never know what it might lead to... ehh I digress.
We can't tolerate the whites-- I get acid indigestion every time I try one, no matter the price/quality and we really don't care for dry wines.
There was one wine I used to have imported in my bachelor days.
Someone a long time ago gave me a glass of it.
Ever since it has been my all time favorite wine for yrs.
And the wife said it was her favorite too after tasting it.
It was an Israeli Sangria with an extremely delicious/ light fruity flavor.
Left absolutely no aftertaste on the palate that you get from almost all wines.
Haven't been able to get it for yrs though.
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24 Dec 2007, 2:50pm
Here's another interesting article about wine tasting:
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/...ource=rss_feed

I'd like to think I'd be able to tell the difference, since I usually enjoy the dryer taste and feel of a red wine, but who knows how it really ends up when the food coloring hits the bottle, eh?
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