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Posted by Fred 2025-12-12 || E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1806 views ]  Top

1 Better looking bunch than recent posts.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-12-12 04:45||   2025-12-12 04:45|| Front Page Top

2 That would be an intriguing slumber party.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-12-12 05:51||   2025-12-12 05:51|| Front Page Top

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Posted by badanov 2025-12-12 08:54||   2025-12-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

4 Love me some Broken wood port or Shiraz.
Posted by alanc 2025-12-12 10:22||   2025-12-12 10:22|| Front Page Top

5 I'm obviously not a wine connoisseur, but what's the great deal about wines?

They're all fermented grape juices! (There's other fruits and plants used as well. "Boone's Farm" comes to mind)

As far as I can tell, there's five main types of wines:

White wines (including "bubbling wines)

Red wines (meant to be drunk at room tempurtures and has various 'phoo phoo' names for what's basically the same stuff and is to me generally undrinkable!)

Blended wines (including White Zinfandel, which is really
pinkish in color and actually a pleasure to drink!)

Brandies (Which as far as I can tell are "reduced" wines and often blended to become rather powerful drinks, often one or two fingers is enough to knock one out for the night, so I've been told!)

Fortified wines, (Mostly cheap wines with added alcohol added, it seems.)

There's also Concord Grape wine, not sure but it seems to be a religion thing with this kind of wine)

I've been to wine tasting parties and as far as I can tell, there's no difference between them, some taste good, other taste horrible.

I did learn what a "corked wine" taste like! And I learned that 'screw top' bottles of wines are better than bottles that's sealed with cork as apparently the quality of corks as degraded over the past century or so, something to do with over harvesting of cork bark or some such.

I also learned that 'boxed' wines is actually good because oxygen does not ever touch the wine until it's poured!
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-12-12 11:14||   2025-12-12 11:14|| Front Page Top

6 Not an expert, though I know a few. As far as I’m concerned, the key is to know what you like and dislike, whatever they are. Everything else is merely for the pleasure of knowing why, if you care to. Also, as one moves from childhood through adulthood, the ability to taste changes, and therefore what tastes good and bad. I used to enjoy a great deal more sweetness than I do now, which is normal.

At least one aspect of preference for sweet wines is location: in Eastern Europe they like their wines sweet, whereas in Western Europe the preferences run much dryer. Beyond that, often enough inexpensive wines are sweeter, which may play into what churches buy for their ceremonies.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-12 11:36||   2025-12-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

7 ...Visualized: Average Monthly Salary in Major Global Cities in 2025
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-12-12 13:11||   2025-12-12 13:11|| Front Page Top

8 Very nice data, P2K. Thanks.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-12-12 17:29||   2025-12-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

9 
re drinking wine

the key is to know what you like and dislike,

The away I was told was that drink what you like.




Posted by alanc 2025-12-12 20:03||   2025-12-12 20:03|| Front Page Top

10 What's the word?
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-12-12 20:10||   2025-12-12 20:10|| Front Page Top

11 Thunderbird
Posted by Frank G 2025-12-12 20:35||   2025-12-12 20:35|| Front Page Top

12 What's the price?
Posted by Flinelet Crater1540 2025-12-12 22:21||   2025-12-12 22:21|| Front Page Top

13 Priceless
Posted by Omons Peacock3469 2025-12-12 23:47||   2025-12-12 23:47|| Front Page Top

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20:03 alanc
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