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I had some red wine tonight, I enjoyed it, it was nice.

you wine buffs and connoisseurs can be so pretentious sometimes.

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The sulphides/sulphites thing FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE is true. For my birthday last year I had a wine tasting at home and purchased 12x bottles of organic wine without the sulphides. Bit pricey but lovely flavours and no hangover.

I typically stick to supermarket wines though if I'm honest and know enough now to know what I like and what is a decent offer and not the supermarkets blowing smoke.

Ill tell you all about a tip for buying wine at Tesco shortly.

One of my best friends was a master of wine. The youngest in the country I believe and was widely quoted in wine books/guides and was a wine buyer for many well respected stores and an advisor to some good restaurants and hotels. He died at just 27 years of age. : (

I have some of his wine books and always promised myself I'd read them all. I've done a bit but feel a bit bad now I haven't.

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I don't typically get hungover from drinking wine. I probably would drink less of expensive organic wine and therefore definitely not have a hangover!!

Maybe that's the secret!

I don't suffer hugely with hangovers, but love a drink so happily take them on the chin and just get on with it.

Had a lovely Tempranillo last night. We always have a lot of wine in but we should really cut down.

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I absolutely love wine, it stems from the days my brother used to give me warm hock when I was about ten.

 

My general favourites are Sauvignon Blanc from the Malborough Estate and other New Zealand regions, Chablis is a party in the gob but costs the earth and some decent German reislings.

 

There are plenty of other white wines I enjoy but the above is a play safe mainly because the missus is a picky bastard and i've managed to get her to enjoy all of the above.

 

Red wines i'm not really that preferrential, I love a Spanish rioja and a Malbec.

 

Good lord, i've not touched a single nip of ale all weekend due to being ill as arseholes but now I fancy a skinful!!!

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Maybe that's the secret!

I don't suffer hugely with hangovers, but love a drink so happily take them on the chin and just get on with it.

Had a lovely Tempranillo last night. We always have a lot of wine in but we should really cut down.

 

I do enjoy a few glasses of wine in an evening. But I am thinking of cutting down too.

 

I think if I could limit myself to a glass of REALLY good wine a night I think I would be happier. It's keeping to the limit that is the problem.

  • 4 months later...
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Current favourites:

 

Central Otago: Pinot Noir's - All LOVELY!

 

And from my  wine spreadsheet (Yes I am very, very sad!):

 

  • Toroloco Temperanillo R 2012 Utiel Requena Spain
  • Rosewater Park Sauvignon Blanc, Semillion W 2012 South Eastern Australia Australia
  • Barossa Drive, Reserve Shiraz R 2011 Barossa Valley Australia
  • Valle Reale Cerasuolo, D'Abruzzo P 2011 Raccolto Italy
  • Enoteca, Orso Primitivo R 2011 Puglia Italy
  • McGuigan Classic Chardonnay W 2012 South Eastern Australia Australia
  • Origin Chenin Blanc W 2012 Western Cape South Africa
  • Colpasso Nero d'Avola R 2011 Sicily Italy

 

 

All Good! :thumbup:

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Current favourites, Blue Nun and Black Tower, amazing flavour and taste!!

Wine snob! What's wrong with Lambrini?

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Wine snob! What's wrong with Lambrini?

Pfft i wouldn't touch that stuff with yours, you should be ashamed of yourself!!!

 

20/20 is also a quality Wine, well worth spending the money for a special occasion!!

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These are the vineyards we went to today and the wines we bought.

Rustenberg: Ida's White 2011, Stellenbosch Shiraz 2011, Straw Wine 2011, Peter Barlow 2011

Thelema: Rabelais 2008, The Mint Cab Sav 2011

Tokara for lunch, amazing.

Had to take the kids home but brother and sister in-law went on to another vineyard.

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I used to go in Sakonis ALL the time. I got to know the owner, fVcking sound bloke. Anyway, he gave me a bottle of red wine at £35 a pop. Absolutely lovely it was. Gutted that I cannot for the life of me remember whist it was. Twat.

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