How do you drink your wine?

[Redway]

Between Alf and LeatherTrumpet, misplaced biases and bizarrely-random comments about the apparent stream of ‘survey-questionnaires’ that come from me are welcome but I’m not going to be engaging with those inevitable comments on any level so if I were either of you I just wouldn’t bother. Stock-bait (especially when it doesn’t-even make any sense) gets boring after a-while. If me being a grammar-Nazi with a new-found want to hyphenate expressions which in the most-nichely-pedantic sense are supposed-to be double-barrelled confuses you, that really-isn’t my problem.

Anyway (to go back to the actual topic I’ve drafted-up), I happened-to be sipping a bottle of Bordeaux last night and the fact that I enjoyed the taste more the slower I drink it got me thinking about how the TiBB-lot in general likes to savour their wine. Do you down-it and get the drinking-process over-with rapidly (as-of it were water) or are you one of those people who really take your time when you’re sipping it out of a glass (insofar that you might-well even finish your meal before clearing as-much-as half-a-glass of red)?

[Mystic Mock]

I put Nitric Acid in my Wine, pour some Honey in the mix, and then guzzle it down like there is no tomorrow.

Seriously though don't put Nitric Acid in any drink for obvious reasons.

And I don't drink Wine, it's not my type of drink.

[Redway]

I put Nitric Acid in my Wine, pour some Honey in the mix, and then guzzle it down like there is no tomorrow.

Seriously though don't put Nitric Acid in any drink for obvious reasons.

And I don't drink Wine, it's not my type of drink.

Yeah, I’m not really a wine-buff but it does serve a purpose, especially in situational-contexts where it’s awkward to drink anything-else (aka up-market restaurants). I naturally-gravitate towards beer, gin, Koppaberg and Lambrini but I do enjoy a bit of wine here-and-there.

[Beso]

I usually need 2 bottles..

But im off the drink now....

Are you thinking about a tea drinking survey in the near future?

[rusticgal]

It went down quickly tonight…hard day at the office :laugh:

[Mystic Mock]

Yeah, I’m not really a wine-buff but it does serve a purpose, especially in situational-contexts where it’s awkward to drink anything-else (aka up-market restaurants). I naturally-gravitate towards beer, gin, Koppaberg and Lambrini but I do enjoy a bit of wine here-and-there.

Oh I get that tbf, in those situations I tend to drink it slowly because I can't handle drinking it too fast because of how strong I find the flavour to be.

My drinks that I like are Whisky, Rum, and Vodka.

[Beso]

It went down quickly tonight…hard day at the office :laugh:

Its hump day, and nobody has died from a fit of rage at work..that in itself is worthy of celebrations..

Id be away up the co op for another bottle by now.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I have a great big blown glass sturdy wine glass so it wont easily coup over

like this https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QdOlNN3XL._AC_SY550_.jpg

and mostly buy wine in a box as 1. i dont need to stick the empty in the glass box and 2. the empty boxes I use to post stuff as they are of a good robust nature.

[joeysteele]

It went down quickly tonight…hard day at the office :laugh:

:joker: That made me smile.
Hope you enjoyed it.

I really only have wine with a meal if out.
Then at Christmas.

One glass usually, drank very slowly.

[AnnieK]

I love a glass of wine after a long day....I usually drink red but prefer a glass of pinot when its warm. Don't chug it, but can do a bottle in an evening easily, especially if I have friends round

[Denver]

With my mouth

[Redway]

I love a glass of wine after a long day....I usually drink red but prefer a glass of pinot when its warm. Don't chug it, but can do a bottle in an evening easily, especially if I have friends round

Do you find yourself drinking more in company than when you’re just doing your own thing?

I only ask that because of the stigma associated-with drinking solo but generally I think that stigma comes from an overwhelmingly-extraverted perspective. Even someone with a very outgoing personality can enjoy more glasses of red or cans of Carling than the decidedly-moderate limits mainstream-society likes to permit (otherwise you kinda risk coming-across as a problem-drinker or at-the-least a saddo with no social life) but the more socially-reserved are usually very sensible about their intake of stuff like that. They’re just (by their very-nature) more-comfortable drinking alone unless they have an actual planned reason to drink socially. Just like some people wouldn’t even-dream of dining alone or driving out-of-town alone because they’re so extraverted that they really need people around them all the time to get their energy but I feel-like just because modern Western society likes to frame that as the norm doesn’t mean everyone’s like that and wants to abide by those social rules. Sometimes it really is a game of ‘the-more-the-merrier’ but generally I don’t think people should feel like they need social permission to open a bottle of Pinot or Echo-Falls. If you’re a bit of an introvert doing stuff alone just comes naturally.

[rusticgal]

:joker: That made me smile.
Hope you enjoyed it.

I really only have wine with a meal if out.
Then at Christmas.

One glass usually, drank very slowly.


I enjoy a nice chilled Rose in the warmer weather…enjoy a red with a meal because it’s a ‘sipper’ drink. However some days when you have had a tough day at work it seems to slide down quicker :laugh:

[UserSince2005]

With cheese in my drawing room

[Denver]

With cheese in my drawing room

Closely translated to drinking my fruit shoot with a cheese string in my play corner

[Redway]

Love your wine, kids. Love your wine.

[GoldHeart]

I don't understand when people chug wine like water , it's meant to be enjoyed slowly ..so you appreciate it more .

[Niamh.]

I'm a heathen and drink my white wine (Italian Pinot Grigio) with ice

[Crimson Dynamo]

I don't understand when people chug wine like water , it's meant to be enjoyed slowly ..so you appreciate it more .

you can do both

[bots]

some wine is designed to be chugged others are designed to be savoured. There is an amazing variety of options available

[Josy]

I don't ewww headache in a glass

[Redway]

some wine is designed to be chugged others are designed to be savoured. There is an amazing variety of options available

That there is.

[Kate!]

Wine used to be my tipple of choice but now it gives me really bad heartburn. I don't drink these days anyway though I am gonna have one just to see the New Year in. That's my limit.

[thesheriff443]

By now members should know I don’t drink, i and find it a joke that not drinking should be seen as a no no or awkward maybe because I have a strong character and I don’t need or try to fit in,

My partner and yes I do have partner despite Glenn and slims attempts to call me a liar or label me as incel

She won’t drink cheap sh1t and I don’t blame the most I’ve paid is 14 pounds a glass

Drink is over rated like most things in life and is often used as a coping/not coping substance

I have a friend who is 18 years sober, she was abused and used drink to numb the pain thankfully she realised what it was doing to her and her family and she went to AA they do a buddy system that you can ring if you are struggling

Another example, me and my brother gave a thousand pound for bottle of moet champagne dated around the First World War which makes it extremely rare and another bottle is on sale for 17,000
Ours got collected by a wine dealer took to London to be verified by experts, it turns out it must of been rebottled but they can find no proof of this

The only way to see if it’s or not is to remove the foil over the cork and see if it has a Moët cork but that is where the value lays with it being in opened.

[Oliver_W]

Mix it with vodka to give it some kick.

[Redway]

I actually feel more refreshed this Monday after a bottle of Oxford Landing (Pinot Grigio). I was drinking a little bit yesterday in the evening but I think the difference is the wine. It’s not the first time I’ve actually felt better the morning after rather than hungover after a bottle of wine. Anyone-else experience this?

[Redway]

I mean, it’s a Monday morning and I actually feel more refreshed than grumpy. Must’ve been something special in that wine.

[user104658]

I mean, it’s a Monday morning and I actually feel more refreshed than grumpy. Must’ve been something special in that wine.

You sure it's not still in your system Redway? You can wake up not feeling the "drunk" effects of alcohol but still with a relatively high blood alcohol level. Once that's metabolised the hangover will hit :joker:.

[Redway]

You sure it's not still in your system Redway? You can wake up not feeling the "drunk" effects of alcohol but still with a relatively high blood alcohol level. Once that's metabolised the hangover will hit :joker:.

Hangovers have always affected me more gastrointestinally than anything else (I’d puke it out of my system after a heavy night and then be okay) but since I started taking CBD even that is a thing of the past. I take Ibuprofen sometimes for something else so having that on standby helps. So I’m not even feeling hungover yet and I doubt I will.

[user104658]

Hangovers have always affected me more gastrointestinally than anything else (I’d puke it out of my system after a heavy night and then be okay) but since I started taking CBD even that is a thing of the past. I take Ibuprofen sometimes for something else so having that on standby helps. So I’m not even feeling hungover yet and I doubt I will.

My terrible affliction was that my hangovers were always hang-unders... I can't sleep drunk. So we'd all get in from a big night out, everyone would pass out drunk, and I'd just have to sit around watching TV or on the internet or whatever feeling horrific until I sobered up. Then I'd go to bed and sleep like a baby.

So depressants keep me awake, stimulants (caffeine) also make me calmer/sometimes even sleepy, and opiates have little to no effect on me.

The Internet insists this means I have pretty serious ADHD? :joker:.

[Redway]

My terrible affliction was that my hangovers were always hang-unders... I can't sleep drunk. So we'd all get in from a big night out, everyone would pass out drunk, and I'd just have to sit around watching TV or on the internet or whatever feeling horrific until I sobered up. Then I'd go to bed and sleep like a baby.

So depressants keep me awake, stimulants (caffeine) also make me calmer/sometimes even sleepy, and opiates have little to no effect on me.

The Internet insists this means I have pretty serious ADHD? :joker:.

Everyone wants to be “neurodivergent” these days. The Internet can be an incredibly useful tool when it comes to understanding these conditions and it’s not a good sign when a pharmacist or someone shuts you down and patronises you because they don’t know the depths of where your knowledge is coming from and don’t know you but people get called autistic and ADHD just for breathing these days. Everyone’s on some sort of spectrum (so long as you have any personality at all) but not every quirk is an actual disorder. TikTok-dem need to chill out with the ADHD over-normalisation.

But ya. Take yourself seriously but not too seriously.