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Would you drink it from a box? Would you drink it with a fox?
southendmd:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 28, 2009, 01:02:20 pm ---
The bottle of wine Ennis takes out here... was there a screw-cap on it or was it sealed with a wad of plastic wrap? I seem to remember it was the latter.
A vital question for oenophile Brokies!
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I thought he pulled a cork out of it. Hmm, a good reason to rewatch the film.
southendmd:
Wine in a box? I think not.
I don't mind screw-tops at all, but I don't want my wine to be in contact with plastic. :P
While it's easy to find a good wine for a lot of money, I like the challenge of finding a decent, drinkable wine for under $10-12. Turns out, it's not that difficult, just gotta try things. I especially like cheap reds from the south of France, like Rhones, or cotes de provence, or languedoc. Very drinkable. Save the expensive wine for a special occasion.
LauraGigs:
--- Quote ---I especially like cheap reds from the south of France, like Rhones, or cotes de provence, or languedoc. Very drinkable. Save the expensive wine for a special occasion.
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Me too, although I still get "red-wine headache" often. (Less so with French than the CA wines.)
I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
:)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 28, 2009, 01:44:46 pm ---I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
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I have that new yuppie hobby! And in fact have some bottles in the basement as we speak. I did a pinot grigio and a meritage. The white is OK, a little too tart and citrusy for me, but I think that's just my taste -- I like dry wine, and I'm not big on citrus. Others have said they like it a lot. The red won't be sufficiently aged until next fall.
It works out to about $5 or $6 a bottle.
southendmd:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 28, 2009, 01:44:46 pm ---Me too, although I still get "red-wine headache" often. (Less so with French than the CA wines.)
I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
:)
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It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Laura, I wonder now that there are so many organic wines available, if they're less headache-ogenic? My local joint has only organic wines on its list.
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