Does anyone like wine?

I ask because today I drank an amazing bottle of wine. It was a half bottle, actually. It was a 1972 Green Label Deinhard Bereich Bernkastel, 9.1% alcoholic content.

lolllllllllllllllll  ....idk

like 10 years older and i can drink 🤣🤣

not that i rlly rlly wanna xD

I was an alcoholic by the time I was four. Then I reformed. In common with a lot of families in England, children were allowed to drink small amounts.
I have a bottle of 1976 Kreuznacher Auslese I'm keeping for a special occasion some time this year.

I know you're ten. You never let me forget it!

Took a sip of red wine from my dad a while ago. I didn't really like that experience. Experience as a whole. I didn't drink enough to get a real taste for wine.

I'm actually drinking a glass of cab right now, in celebration of my greatest chess victory to date. I started playing chess 3 weeks ago, and I just beat a 1355 in rapid, solidly, so I'm extremely happy.

Cheers, everyone!  

Well, most red wine isn't all that good. It's all too fruity, sweet, acidic. All at the same time. You have to pay quite a bit for a really good bottle of red wine and it isn't worth drinking the cheap stuff so it's best to only do it for special occasions. The wine I was talking about was some German white that I got really cheap .... about 60 half bottles, all 1972. Some had to be thrown away. The rest of it varied according to how it had changed, because it should have been drunk 45 years ago. There are people who pay a lot to get access to that kind of thing that's impossible to buy in shops.

You a fan of IPA's?

It's pretty popular, globally. I'm from Austin, TX, and I would say it's probably the most popular beer sold here. It's pretty strong, ranging from 6-9% alcohol content, and hoppy, but it's got a very crisp, bitter taste. I don't like anything sweet, so it's ideal for me. I highly recommend you try it. 

Lonestar is a terrible beer lol. I'm sorry you had to drink that. We have much, much better beer here. Austin alone probably has over 200 breweries, most of which brew fantastic beer. 

Where did you have BBQ, if you don't mind me asking? 

That's awesome, and I'm glad you enjoyed your stay in Texas. I was born here, so I'm glad people from abroad appreciate it. Did you have tacos while you were here? 

My grandad worked his passage to Galveston round about 1909 and he loved it there. He couldn't stay because he was engaged. As for IPA we have some good ones, like Shepherd Neame. It's £ 1.50 a bottle. https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwif-KeylJ3vAhVV7e0KHSskDcoYABAFGgJkZw&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAASE-RodeTRfXEZHi9HI0dmN_nIerU&sig=AOD64_1u3kIas3QJo9UcKN71iPVlkWS1dw&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwiUwKKylJ3vAhWNecAKHcPQAaEQ9aACegQIAxBO&adurl=
Traditional British beer. My dad and grandad always got crates of IPA in at Christmas.

Interesting, I'm actually half English and half German, racially/ethnically, and all of my German ancestors came through Galveston and Indianola, in the mid 19th century. 

IPA's are fantastic. I typically stick to a good, dry red, but when I drink beer, it is almost exclusively IPA. Occasionally, I'll drink a Goza. 

Hmm, it seems to me that I asked you at one time if you ever tried your hand at making your own wine.

I can still remember my late uncle's wine cellar, he took it quite seriously you know. 

My favourite type of wine is a good red Burgundy. About seven or eight years ago I bought a load of second hand wine very cheap. One of the bottles had the label nearly torn right off and I got that for £2. All you could see was ""69" and I assumed it was a Bordeaux, which would have gone off. I let it settle for a few weeks and opened it and tried it. I realised by its taste it was a Burgundy. '69 was one of the two best Burgundy vintages of the 20th century. I was slightly annoyed because if I'd realised it was a £200 bottle of wine, I might have kept it for my birthday! I also like rich and complex Italian Barolos and maybe a good Rioja, but it's almost impossible to get those any more. They make them too fruity. I hate smooth, fruity red wine, which everyone seems to want. What's the point, when you may as well eat a bunch of grapes with a malt whisky?

Wow, I would have been both pissed and pleasantly surprised! To find such a steal would be impossible around these parts. 

Totally agree, I can't stand the fruity varieties, and I don't want smooth. I prefer a very bitter and dry wine. I generally won't drink anything sweeter than a cab. You might as well just make a cocktail if you are going to drink something so sweet. 

I have quite a sensible relationship with alcohol, based on not drinking during the week, and then enjoying about 5 pints over the weekend. This weekend I discovered that my local shop sells something called. Abbey Royal, described as an English fortified wine, for £5 a bottle. According to the label, it's 10.5 units, i.e. comparable to 5 pints of 4-4.5% ale, so very much within my range. And it tastes rather like medium sherry - I prefer fino, but I'm not complaining.

IPA's here in the UK tend to be more like 4-5%. I can quite happily drink 3 pints on a Friday night without getting more than very slightly p155ed and without having to worry about hangovers.