Poll: Do you take red or white?

[ReservoirAngel]

I just got asked this by one of 'those' people. You know them. The snobs you see in restaurants swilling a glass of wine round and sniffing it for 10 minutes before deciding if it's good enough to throw down their neck during their meal.

When I answered that I don't know enough about wine, this person decided to try and explain the difference between red and white wine. Naturally I tuned them out, since my experience of wine is that if it tastes good I'll down it, and fuck the differences between red swill and white swill.

So I then randomly decided to pose this question to the Escapist population.

How do you 'take' your wine? Red, white, or do you just not give a flying toss?

for further discussion value: what do you think of these 'wine snobs' that act to snootish and posh because they can smell hints of rosemary in a glass of booze?

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

I think white tastes better, personally, though I'll more often drink red.

Because deep down, I think white's a girl's drink.

 

[Radeonx]

I normally find that I like red wine better, but I'll drink whatever tastes good.
With that said, I never drink wine. I pretty much just drink beer, mixed drinks, and whisky.

 

[Scarecrow]

Fuck wine! Siting all smug in bottles and on vines!

 

[Anarchemitis]

I don't always drink wine. But when I do, I drink Red.

 

[SimuLord]

I stopped drinking wine when I stopped drinking everything else alcoholic on August 14, 1996.

Prior to that, I always held to the "red with hearty meats, white with fish or fowl" rule---tried, true, and tested. Although more likely I was like "Guinness with hearty meats, a crisp German lager with fish or fowl"...six of one, half dozen of the other, really.

Fun fact: Between 2000-02, I dated a girl who lived with me and we had a few oddball house rules. One of them, since I'm a recovering alcoholic and she was more than happy to respect that, was "Pepsi with red meat, Mountain Dew with white meat"...which, surprisingly, works remarkably well!

 

[Retardinator]

Red wine. Unless it's being mixed with Cola, in which case I'd take white.

Oh and fuck snobs. My goal is not to waste an hour deciding if I'd like to spend $999.99 or $899.99 for a bottle of fermented grapes. I drink alcohol to get drunk. It's the most logical sequence of events.

 

[archvile93]

I don't care because I think wine (and alchoholic beverages in general) taste terrible.

 

[tjdavids]

I have to say that unless I have a good pairing, like adding spice to food in the form of drink, I will choose white usually, Pinot Grigio specifically... boxed, for convenience...

 

[the lapalminator]

wine is weaksauce.

if your gonna drink, do it right. whiskey, vodka. do it right

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

Why does it matter to people anyways? I suppose to some it's like comparing coke to pepsi where there are lovers and haters on both sides. But I don't care because I never have and never will drink any alcoholic beverage.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I never got the 'red with certain foods, white with other certain foods' thing. To me, red tastes shit no matter what crap you have it with.

 

[badgersprite]

I find it funny that people only separate it into red and white. I'm not a wine snob by any means, but it's just normal in our country to be able to specify different types of red and white wine, and identify them by that rather than just colour. I noticed that wasn't the case in America when I visited there. Not sure why that's different there.

Anyway, I don't like most red wine as a rule. I find it too heavy and overpowering. So white wines are my preferred drink of choice. Specifically, Chardonnays and Rieslings are what I drink more than anything else. Although they're all Australian grown so I'm sure a real wine snob will be able to tell me why they shouldn't be called that if they're made here.

 

[Thaliur]

Having to choose between white wine and red wine, I'll take white wine. If any whine is OK, though, I choose mead.

My message for the "hint of rosemary" people: Frell you!
There is no rosemary in wine, there is no vanilla in wine, there are no nuts in wine, there is nothing in wine except grapes and yeast! well, at least if the makers didn't cheat...
Anything that does not taste like grapes, yeast or alcohol in wine is just stuff from the barrels that was dissolved in the wine.

I can't find them right now, but there have been studies a while ago confirming that wine "experts" could basically taste anything in any wine. It's pretty much like art critics pretending to know Nat Tate.

 

[redisforever]

The only alcohol I drink is red wine. I don't know, I just prefer it, preferably merlot.

Speaking of wine, John Cleese hosted a wine program at one point.

 

[JezebelinHell]

Cannot touch the stuff even if I wanted to. One drink and my head hurts so bad that it makes me wish it would explode.

 

[Pips]

Neither - If I drink wine at all I drink rose. I tend to drink real ale or spirits for preference though. Mmmm, Morgan's Spiced Rum...

 

[ReservoirAngel]

wine is weaksauce.

if your gonna drink, do it right. whiskey, vodka. do it right

See now this I can agree with. If I want to get wankered I go down the pub and knock back double-vodka-lemonades and Jagerbombs, I don't sit at home sipping a glass of stale grape juice.

 

[Snowalker]

I don't know, every time I had white wine, it tasted sour... I like red wine, it tastes... fuller? I'm underage, and wine is the only alcoholic thing I cna drink on a semi-regular basis, (Parents think wine is cool because I have to make it myself.) So.. maybe I'm just making white wine wrong.. not sure.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I have always like White better.