I knew I was tweaking some noses with my question. I do appreciate
Winston's gentlemanly response. I have never enjoyed wine whenever I tried
it, and figured it was analogous with DeBeers and diamonds. Hype to keep up
the prices.
Incidentally, my favorite drinks are water and Hood's chocolate milk.
Jackie

"J. Davidson" wrote:
>
> I knew I was tweaking some noses with my question. I do appreciate
> Winston's gentlemanly response. I have never enjoyed wine whenever I tried
> it, and figured it was analogous with DeBeers and diamonds. Hype to keep up
> the prices.
> Incidentally, my favorite drinks are water and Hood's chocolate milk.
> Jackie

Why does that not surprise me?

The real reason wine is as expensive as it is in the U.S. and Canada is
the taxes and laws on alcoholic beverages. Even so, there are
inexpensive wines. You might like them; you might not. If you feel
compelled to try wine in hopes that you'll like it, start with a white
zinfandel, a German reisling, and a sweet sparkling wine like Rosa
Regale (in that order). If you're really looking for the cheapest wine,
try Charles Shaw wines. (Ask for "two buck chuck.")


One must not learn to like something that one believes tastes awful. I
don't know who told you that, but I think it would be fun if you told us
what else he told you about food and sex.


The mystique about wine goes back to a lot of things, mostly its
history, but also, like DeBeers, to advertising. That's not necessarily
a bad thing. If a product is going to survive in the marketplace it
needs a few things: It needs to be a good product, and it needs
advertising, to name two.


Another part of wine's mystique is due to the way there are so many
variables in the finished product: the variety of grape, the soil the
grape is grown in, the sunshine and rainfall in the particular year, the
winemaker's skill. I think it's cool to taste those differences (and
I'm a novice with scarcely a beginner's understanding), but I do
understand if someone wasn't into it. Hell, I'm not into watching
sports, and a lot of people are, while I am into making quilts, and a
lot of people aren't. Different strokes.


If you're interested in applying mystique to other beverages, try
different waters from different municipalities in your area or different
bottled waters and see if you can tell them apart. A good way to
develop your palate is to start with anything you like and start seeing
if you can distinguish small differences.


--Lia

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:30:45 -0600, "J. Davidson"
> wrote:

>I knew I was tweaking some noses with my question. I do appreciate
>Winston's gentlemanly response. I have never enjoyed wine whenever I tried
>it, and figured it was analogous with DeBeers and diamonds. Hype to keep up
>the prices.
>Incidentally, my favorite drinks are water and Hood's chocolate milk.
>Jackie
>
That's OK ! I was born without the "beer gene"
All beer tastes like dishwater to me.
I watch all these wonderful beer commercials,
and wonder ...."What am I missing"

As for wines... you might want to try some sweet "sipping wines"
A nice port, sweet sherry, or a New York State sweet sauterne.

At worst, there;'s always Annie Green Springs, MD-20
Ripple, or Bartle&Jaymes...

<rj>

"<RJ>" > wrote in
:

> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:30:45 -0600, "J. Davidson"
> > wrote:
>
>>I knew I was tweaking some noses with my question. I do appreciate
>>Winston's gentlemanly response. I have never enjoyed wine whenever I
>>tried it, and figured it was analogous with DeBeers and diamonds.
>>Hype to keep up the prices.
>>Incidentally, my favorite drinks are water and Hood's chocolate milk.
>>Jackie
>>
> That's OK ! I was born without the "beer gene"


Commiserations to you :-(


> All beer tastes like dishwater to me.
> I watch all these wonderful beer commercials,
> and wonder ...."What am I missing"


*Lots*.


>
> As for wines... you might want to try some sweet "sipping wines"
> A nice port, sweet sherry, or a New York State sweet sauterne.


Ever tried a 'Muscat'?? If you like Raisins.... you'll love it :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

'Enjoy today, it was paid for by a veteran'

http://www.beccycole.com/albums/vide...ter_girl.shtml

J. Davidson wrote:
> I knew I was tweaking some noses with my question. I do appreciate
> Winston's gentlemanly response. I have never enjoyed wine whenever I
> tried it, and figured it was analogous with DeBeers and diamonds.
> Hype to keep up the prices.
> Incidentally, my favorite drinks are water and Hood's chocolate milk.
> Jackie

So if you don't like wine, don't drink wine. I love Australian wines. So
much less pretentious than French wines and cheaper, too. Then again (if
you like wine, which you don't) there are some good ones from vinyards in CA
and NY. What I despise and don't understand the popularity of are soft
drinks like Pepsi and Coca Cola. I'd rather drink ice water (and I do, all
day long) than drink that carbonated syrup crap. But that's just me

Jill