Reply to: A billion bottles of wine going to waste...

[AlfredJPruffock]

Terrible to reflect that I live in a country that has 450 varieties of beer.

[Shimano105]

Wine is good, but overrated

I think a lot of people like to hang on to the 'French is best' line because that is the way it has always been.

But I think many of the old classic wines seem light and thin to me.

I still think that good beer is best though, even more so because it doesn't usually get the attentions of the pretentious wine fraternity.

Good beer? Classic real ales (which seem better than ever these days) and proper, imported continental lagers, none of your 'brewed under licence' malarky.

Mind you, I think that this whole thread could be offensive to Muslims and so should be behead... I mean deleted.

[Joe Black]

If I'm reading the original article right, we don't want to buy this thin inconsistent French mouthwash any more: but they have fixed the EU so that we still have to pay French growers for it, even if we don't drink it.

Adam Smith must be glad he's dead.

Even better expat, "under the Common Agricultural Policy, the farmers will then be paid for not producing wine but for keeping up environmental standards on their land instead"

[Lucifer Box]

I'm all yours LB (in a non-sexual, but vin-wise way, of course...)!

I may allow Mrs Lucifer a small taste, but otherwise it's mine, all mine, yes precious. What has he got in his pocketses?

[expat]

If I'm reading the original article right, we don't want to buy this thin inconsistent French mouthwash any more: but they have fixed the EU so that we still have to pay French growers for it, even if we don't drink it.

Adam Smith must be glad he's dead.

[Gibbon]

New world wines and especially their shirazs are homegenous puke.

[TheMonkey]

You'll never believe this. I was driving one of my many Lambos the other day when the bespoke satellite navigation system I designed (it was one of my many international companies that launched the satellite, by the way - NASA have approached me but I told them I only deal with larger customers) briefly malfunctioned. Luckily I soon recognised that I was passing by one of the vinyards I own, so I stopped and had a chat with some of my staff. I didn't like the attitude of the head viticulturalist so I fired him and later had him killed by the King of Denmark. Anyway, I tried some of my wine which was very nice.

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[Dalek Supreme]

You'll never believe this. I was driving one of my many Lambos the other day when the bespoke satellite navigation system I designed (it was one of my many international companies that launched the satellite, by the way - NASA have approached me but I told them I only deal with larger customers) briefly malfunctioned. Luckily I soon recognised that I was passing by one of the vinyards I own, so I stopped and had a chat with some of my staff. I didn't like the attitude of the head viticulturalist so I fired him and later had him killed by the King of Denmark. Anyway, I tried some of my wine which was very nice.

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[ASB]

I love good scrumpy, but it's not easy to find good stuff, made with the proper apples, and nice and dry.

This chap just down the road from me is pretty good.

http://www.richscider.co.uk/

But the website is buggered at the mo.

If you don't drink the whole gallon in a couple of days it's good for cleaning the silverware.....

Wilkins of Mudgley is another local producer who makes decent cider. Try it if you see it.

[hyperD]

I'm all yours LB (in a non-sexual, but vin-wise way, of course...)!

[Lucifer Box]

I have a bottle of 1961 Chateau Canon la Gaffeliere St Emilion sitting right beside me awaiting my eager attentions at the weekend.

Which is nice.

[hyperD]

If you have an old man that collected Chateau Lafite in his prime and thought to share it with his son, then you know what I voted!

Can't beat it...

[TheMonkey]

Wine is expensive, makes you horrible when you drink it and doesn't actually taste that nice. It's kind of like Caviar for the average joe - people drink it because everyone else does or it's fashionable. It's another modern tragedy.

I prefer a nice cold glass of traditional Pepsi with ice in it. Either that or a nice glass of absynthe on ice (correctly prepared of course!)

[Fungus]

I'm not a wine fan. All too often red wine tastes of little more than raisins (I wonder why?), has horrible cloying tannin, and a nasty woody taste that reminds me of woodwork classes. I think there's far too much pretentiousness in the wine world. I do like an occasional wine such as a Bordeaux, a Muscadet or a Gewurztraminer.

I prefer Belgian beer and English real ales. I love good scrumpy, but it's not easy to find good stuff, made with the proper apples, and nice and dry. It'll clean the limescale from your bowels.

[Joe Black]

Well, for less than a fiver I'm not sure it's that easy to always get a good wine, but certainly these days with some new world reds edging above the 14% mark (fortified wine territory?), I'm pretty sure you won't have a problem with the alcohol content.