On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:13:38 +0100, Pamela >
wrote:

>I have drunk my fair share of alcohol and used to enjoy getting merry on a
>regular basis. In time I grew up. Luckily I don't have any dependency on
>alcohol and will regularly go without a drop for 6 months without noticing
>it. I drink when it suits me.
>
>I've come to see that wine enthusiasts kid themselves that wine enhances
>the flavour of food. They are essentially dipsomaniacs who want an excuse
>to indulge their habit under the cloak of fine wines, chateaux, vintage
>years, clarity, rarity and all that guff. I have a friend who is very
>wealthy and forever ordering expensive wines at restaurants -- not to show
>off but as an excuse for drinking yet another bottle of some "connoisseur"
>wine. There's always some fantastic wine which goes fantastically with
>the food he's ordered. We consider him a alcoholic, he says he's not.
>
>If you took the alcohol content out of wine, it would lose it's appeal to
>self-appointed oenophiles who drink and eat together.
>
>I remember having a pizza with an Italian friend who had come over to the
>UK for a few weeks. The waiter offered us wine and was told "Where I am
>in Italy we have pizza with Coca Cola not wine".
>
>Of course people can drink what they like with their food -- but they kid
>themselves if they think a meal is incomplete or substandard without wine.
>
>If I went to an Italian food store, I would buy the gorgeous foods and
>ingredients I couldn't find elsewhere -- not more damn vino.

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