wth red wine....
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Topic: wth red wine....
Posted By: *Stealth*
Subject: wth red wine....
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:31pm
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Ok, It tastes like crap and gives you a head ache pretty fast. Who actualy likes this stuff? |
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:31pm
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Me.
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Posted By: chronic future
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:32pm
| grandpas |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:32pm
I was told I was stupid not to eat more when I drank it... (just had a very small portion of the served food). Is this true? |
Tae Kwon Do wrote:Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:33pm
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You can drink whine?
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:33pm
JUST corrected that actualy. |
Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:50pm
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:53pm
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Not a wine fan.
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:53pm
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 9:53pm
| I prefer wine over champagne. I think red wine isn't too bad, but the white wine is what I like more. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:02pm
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Me. I think I'll go get a glass right now.
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:03pm
| Me. |
Posted By: RicWhic414
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:05pm
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old people
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:26pm
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I don't mind it every now and again. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:27pm
I had some at work a couple of months ago and I hated it as well.
Therefore, based on the transitive property, TKD is a grandpa. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:37pm
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If it tastes like crap, then you had a bad one.
Most red wines are very decent, especially if you are drinking them at their propper age. I started drinking red wine back when i was 18 (legal in this country). Especially if you are using it corectly, and not just drinking plonk to get hammered. Living in South Africa has it's advantages. Around here we get some pretty good Merlot. Also some very good Pinotage. One thing beginers should always try are blends. They aren't always as heavy as the traight up wines. A good starting wine is a Merlot/ Cabernet savignon blend. Generally got for around 40 Cab 60% Merlot. At a dinner party the other night 8 of us polished off 9 bottles of wine, and none of us woke with a headache. KBK |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 10:42pm
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Wine varies wildly it flavor. Good wine is very good - bad wine is vinegar. But like KBK said - drink it slow, eat, and try an easy wine like a Merlot or a blend. If you drink it like its beer bad things WILL happen, and you are missing out in the process. For later I recommend Shiraz or equivalent. Yummy. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:04pm
 Cheers Come to think of it I have a very vaguely Hannibal Lecter sort of thing going on there... ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:06pm
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Don't worry - your sig removes any thought of Hannibal from our minds. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:09pm
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LOL... I'd honestly forgotten about that. I suppose it's time for a new one.
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:27pm
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Well done on the sig.. And I enjoy the occasional glass of wine. ------------- 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:32pm
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i'm just starting on wines... white merlot, white zin, and riesling are the few i can stomach. sooner or later i'll be drinking reds |
Posted By: Thatoneguy123
Date Posted: 14 February 2007 at 11:50pm
| Merlot or shiraz ftw. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 12:18am
I'm drinking an Amarone right now. A light, pleasant red. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 12:31am
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 12:49am
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I enjoy red wines much more consistently than whites.
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Posted By: Panda Man
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 12:51am
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To make a panda Sing. 1 Box of Wine + Music = Karaoke panda! ------------- 
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 1:00am
The only wine I've ever tried was an old stale white wine that I found in my grandparents cabinet....I've had a serious lack of opportunity in certain areas of my life....central Ohio sucks...
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Posted By: Rock Slide
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 1:05am
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"Old People" ??? Bite me...
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 7:16am
The same with me. A wine tasting is a great place to get more involved with different types and styles of wine while around people that can answer questions and make recommendations. I'm actually going to another one in a couple of weeks. I like cabernet savignon. Yellow Tail makes a nice, inexpensive, wine that goes well with my dinner from time to time. ------------- 
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Posted By: FlimFlam
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 8:56am
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Chianti ftw ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 9:46am
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Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 10:22am
| The bigger the box teh better the wine. |
Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 11:56am
I have really gotten hooked on connecting the taste of wine with chocolate. There is a really snooty rich part of Orlando, called Winter Park, and in their fancy little downtown shopping square they have this one high-end chocolate store that every once in a while has a sampling day, where they match some of their newer chocolate creations with various wines and let the public sample them. I try to make it to every one. They don't check ID, seeing as I am 18, that is a good thing, but the tastes of these dark red wines with good rich chocolate...amazing. -------------
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Posted By: FlimFlam
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 2:05pm
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What, no action in the big city of Kenton? Hehe... My sales territory used to run through there, I think I've driven all the roads in Hardin County. Say, Benji, does the Ada public pool still have the 9 meter olympic platform to dive off of? Not sure if you'd know or not, but I used to go with a friend of mine to Ada to visit his grandmother, and we LOVED diving off that platform... Only one at a public pool we ever found... I'm sure in the last 15 years it's been removed, what with the lawsuit potential there... -------------
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Posted By: FlimFlam
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 2:07pm
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QFT A good Australian Shiraz with a quality chocolate covered cherry... A little orgasm for the taste buds.... -------------
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 2:14pm
Champagne IS wine. It's simply made in Champagne, France. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: 636andy636.
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 3:27pm
Wine in a can FTW! ------------- [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/anthonymartinez/402cdjo-1.gif"> |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 4:07pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 5:14pm
| in a typical month, i'll go through roughly 32.1 bottles of Cristal |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 5:44pm
That being done. I'm a huge fan or red wines, I find the depth of character and flavor to be superior to those of whites. I find that the fault of whites being rather less stimulating lies with the producers rather than the particular style of wine, however. American Chardonnays, for example, were these big, oaky, overpowering wines for years and years. Finally, once everyone finally figured out that your whites weren't supposed to taste like you were chewing on a slightly charred tree, the California chardonnay guys started to ease off the oak and turn to a more decidedly French style of production. Due to this, some of the market for whites has come back into favor. A lot of Cal-Italias (Italian varietals grown in California) specifically your various pinot grigios, are the new swill of the bored housewife. However, the market for whites right now is dominated by Riesling and Gewurztraminer, both fairly sweet and fruity German varietals. I wish that the American public would get into the white Bordeaux wines as well as some of the lesser known but excellent Alsatian whites. That said, the reason I like reds is due to the delicate balance of fruit, earth, wood, and cream/vanilla that you pick up in both the nose and on the palate. I'm not a big fan of Syrah (it's not SHIRAZ no matter **edited** an advertising company tries to tell you) unless it is blended in with something like a Zinfandel or Cabernet (Savignon or Franc, doesn't matter) Petit Syrah, on the other hand, I absolutely love. It'll kick you in the teeth harder than you can imagine, but when you're in the mood for something that can stand up to a 32oz Porterhouse well, there's not much else that will do it. For the "light-bodied" red, I prefer a Pinot Noir. I'm not a fan of Merlot (and no, not because of Sideways, I haven't liked it since I was younger) the body is just too light for me and the acidity too much for a red IMHO. Pinot offers a much rounder body, better malolactic fermentation, and a more robust flavor than Merlot. For the medium body wines, I suggest picking up a nice Cabernet Franc if you can find one (they tend to be on the rare side) or a Cabernet Savignon from Chile, specifically Montes Reserva or Montes Alpha. Malbec is another nice light-to-mid bodied red that you don't find outside of the South American Wineries that much. For full body. Zinfandel Zinfandel Zinfandel!!!!!! Specifically Hendry or Ridge, I also like Terra Bianca's "Campaccio" from Italy, and I go through a bottle of Chateau Neuf de Pape about once per week. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Black_Shadow
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 6:53pm
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Alas, i have yet to sample red or white wine for that matter... alas i am allergic to red and white wine... i think i might be allergic to beer too... i mean, i have 15 or 16 and i throw up... get allerges all over the place... pain in the butt it is... ------------- 98CP ACT R/T J&J Ceramic 14" Egg II w Z-Board GTA Inline X-Chamber NCStar Red-Dot Pen Spring Mod Trigger Stops Polished Internals Dye Sticky Grip 20oz Co2 w On/Off Next Up: Spimmy |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 9:12pm
Any one care to decifer that? |
Posted By: Shadowminion
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 9:23pm
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I am completely devoid of any liking for wine . The sulphates that are put in wine make it as if you were picking your teeth with the wrong end of an unlit matchstick (Sodium Metabisulphate to be specific) . I was fortunate enough to taste unadulterated wine as I was growing up , Dandelion , peach , apricot , plum , grape and other fruits I personally had a hand in cultivating . While they werent from anything close to a recognised vineyard , they were darned good . Today's wines , go suck on a match,,,,,,, Edit , and the sulphites CAN be responsible for allergic reactions too.... ------------- SL68-II , micro honed and polished .688" bore . Tuff Enuf . Widowmaker , under construction |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 9:26pm
Tons of people like red wine. I'm not a fan, but I can see why people are. |
Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 15 February 2007 at 9:41pm
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I drank a bottle to start my day off St. patricks day last year. then went on to heavier stuff after i left the house. ------------- Gamertag: Kataklysm999 
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