01-05-2017, 03:58 AM
LJay Wrote:My actual last purchase was a dozen eggs, but just before that I bought a new keyboard for the computer. [MENTION=23180]axle2152[/MENTION], why did the last one break after only about four months? I am really not mean to them!
[MENTION=21558]Emiliano[/MENTION], drink the wines you like and experiment a lot. Rieslings are easy to like and gewurztraminer is great stuff, especially if you like sausages. The bottle neck shape tells you a bit about reds. The one with a shoulder and a straight neck is generally for Bordeauxs and the one with the tapered neck is for Burgunday-styled wines. I tend to like the red burgundies. I also tend to like sherries and ports, which are not in fashion right now. [Hush, Native Son.] A long while back I was a wine buyer. Learning about them is fun, especially if you have a friend or two to help you taste around.
What does it mean if it comes from a box?
Last summer I went on a New England road trip with a friend and all he cared about was antiques and wine... we did the New Hampshire wine, cheese, and chocolate trail and I ended up trying a lot of new stuff. A lot of fruit wines and I think it was called ice wine, which was crazy delicious. It was a lot of drinking. But also a lot of fun learning about wine and wine making. I also got to try a lot of mead which I like too.
Sherry just reminds me of getting drunk in crab soup. I can't really imagine drinking it by itself, but I do really enjoy being soup drunk.