Posted on 11/18/2018 9:08:49 AM PST by Michael.SF.
Thanksgiving Day is approaching and we are spending the day at our son's house with his family. Our other son and his family will be there as well.
Usually I bring the wine, some whites for the Ladies and Reds, for us. For the red I usually bring a merlot based Bordeaux from my modest collection. Problem this year:
Included in the festivities will be my sons father-in-law, a very likable guy and we get along great. The issue is, he prefers his Red, with a couple of ice cubes in it.
I cringe at the thought of ice going into a 15 year old Bordeaux............. sacrilege!!
My wife says: deal with it, he doesn't drink that much. Or bring a cheaper wine that he can do that with.
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After a few bottles, target practice is always next on the list. Probably take 90 rounds to kill it good.
rose’ nouveau Beaujolais
shopping for T day wines tomorrow will look for it.
Not driving on the day, on the New England rocky coast so i will be full bore in the taste mode & they dint us’tah call me “The Wine Pig” for naught.
Do yourself a favor and stick to non-glass.
Still picking up pieces from the 50’s 60’s when the elders though shooting bottles was cool, but cant fault em they didn’t have plastic back then or much of it.
“Get the rope”...
*snicker
As long as it’s on private property...preferably yours. Some asshat took a bunch of heavy wine bottles out into the dunes and shot them up at the bottom of a dune that kids would slide down on cardboard, and that people walked there dogs near.
We are very traditional and eat a very traditional Thanksgiving dinner. In fact after researching the pilgrims and what they had to work with at that particular time of year and how bad they were at hunting because they were clumsy in the woods excetera... We read that they probably ate Cod... and some vegetables like squash and corn.
Black Friday we eat a turkey with all the trimmings and into Saturday. Cod is good Thanksgiving Day. However sometimes I got to have salmon and break tradition.
Christmas? We stay the hell out of the kitchen and go eat Chinese buffet.
Whatever he does with his glass is not your concern.
Besides, isn’t it white with turkey?
“...its time for Beaujolais nouveau.”
Make sure its a bottle of 2018...
I used to laugh going into wine shops that carried Nouveau Beaujolais that was 2 or 3 years old!
Bet Krapernick’s white family regrets taking him in and wasting all that time and money on him. His birth mother spoke out against his attitude a couple years ago.
That’s why they invented box wines.
“I also don’t see that red wines are for men and white wines are for women. . .do you just not want to share your high-end wines with women?”
Back when I was around 25 or 26 I found out that there is a cosmetic reason why women don’t particularly go for red wines... This grande southern lady told me “it’s because red wine stains the teeth.” She also told me that her husband “made the money, and she made life worth living.” What a great old cougar that one was.
No doubt it makes shipping more economical. And if you fill the empties with sand, you can build a foundation for the trailer.
“My wife says: deal with it, he doesn’t drink that much.”
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Oh,so what——he likes it the way he likes it. No big deal.
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Perhaps they get their jollies smelling stinky feet or have a foot fetish. Either way, it’s down right icky. What if the guest doesn’t want to shed his shoes? Some might find it embarrassing. Ordering guests take their shoes off is not in anyone’s book hospitable.
Homemade wine coolers anyone?
I like Burgundy better that tannin wines. But I rarely drink and then it’s probably bourbon & “cola” or perhaps a beer.
RED is healthier. ICE with RED will not make it any less healthier. Let him have his RED and his ICE. Taste is in the bud of the beholder. Case closed!
Many don’t drink alcohol at all.
“Does red go with turkey?”
You are talking about what is now old school. Wines were not there to drink and be a part of the meal. They were there to cleanse the pallet for the meal.
You’re right in that many of the reds, originally set up for meats and pasta, will overpower white meat and fish so you will lose the full taste of the food. But wine has become so much of a status rather than a tool for meals so anything goes. Only certain wines receive the use they are there for. And most of them are sipping wines and not for food mixture like chilled chardonnay, certain champagne, brandy, port, or cognac. Special purpose wine.
In the US, one of the, if not if the, largest selling wine is white zinfandel. Zinfandel is a very dark red cordial while it’s little brother is just made different. White zen is prior to being caste quick frozen to kill the fermentation. Then it is in the barrels for a short time, bottled, and sent to the consumer. So as it has no ability to ferment, a WZ bottled in 1985 and one in 2015 will taste the same. So the 9 to 10 year fermenting recommendation for most white wines is not only useless, it is stupid. This is why you won’t find a good year with WZ. And it is sold as the wine for everything. Many say for nothing as it is immature and way too sweet in most occasions as the sugar couldn’t convert. But it’s trendy.
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There are non water ice cubes. Some are plastic some stainless steel. If you can’t get some in time, run some large stainless steel nuts thru your dishwasher before popping them in the freezer.
I agree. It’s all piss at the end.
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