Poll: Do you take red or white?

[Sunstrike]

Well to be really snobby about booze, red vs white is such a huge classification in terms of quality and cost that the terms themselves really become meaningless. I mean, I would prefer a high quality (likely high cost) white to a rotgut bottle of red, but whoose the winner between a nice bottles of pinot noir and chardonnay? This are much more difficult questions to answer.

Short answer, red, usually has more depth of flavor, the vintages I drink are generally on the sweeter (and higher alch content) side, and to top it off, all the research and the great heart health benefits of red over white.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

If I'm going to drink wine I'm gonna drink wine appropriate to what I'm eating. Red wine is for the "heavier" meat, like steaks and such, and white is for fish or something like that. It's all very complex...

When it comes to the "if they're all snootish because they can taste the hints of rosemary" question of yours, then I dunno. I don't really know anyone like that.

 

[BlueGlowstick]

blueberry. xD

 

[Chibz]

I drink wine based on whatever I'm drinking it with.

 

[thylasos]

Red. Fuller flavour, spicy notes, more uses in food I like, and it's guaranteed not to be sparkling.

Cabernet Sauvignon (from certain places), Corbieres, Fitou and Rioja are all rather lovely if you spend just over a fiver.

At the same time, I'll buy three bottles of wine for £12, which is about the best deal which isn't £2 piss from Nisa.

There's an enormous difference between (most) whites and reds. I can tell that, and I smoke so much that by rights my taste buds should all be dead.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I've never had white wine, but red wine nearly made me vomit.

 

[smithy_2045]

Fuck wine, whiskey please.

 

[Fudd]

Red, but I really do prefer gin in most circumstances.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Let's just say wine is not "my cup of tea".

 

[Farseer Lolotea]

Red.

If it's stored in a wooden container, chemical reactions can create flavors that you wouldn't think were from grapes. While I can usually pick them up, I'm going to be more concerned with whether or not it actually tastes good. Because if it doesn't, it's just going to get used for marinating steaks or something.

 

[Da Chi]

It all depends on how I'm feeling. White is for celebration, red is when I'm overworked. They both compliment my mood quite well. Though I'm not a wine drinker. I usually don't even bother taking it out of the bag before the cork is gone and I'm hobo chugging.

 

[Vern]

While I'm not a huge wine drinker, I like red wine. White wine tends to taste like two asses rubbed together on a humid day. However if I'm drinking, I prefer beer and liquor, particularly whiskey and vodka as opposed to wine.

 

[TimeLord]

What about Rose wine? It isn't technically red.

I prefer Red though...

 

[Biosophilogical]

I don't drink. But if I did, I'd probably just colour code it to my meat.

 

[Thaliur]

Umm, I've made strawberry wine, and muscadine(or is that technically still a grape?) wine. So, its possible for wine to be made form something other than a grape, yet, I understand your point, and agree.

Ah, true, I forgot about cherry wine, dandelion wine (which is weird, but surprisingly tasty), plum wine (although that's a mixed drink in some cases) and other.
Of course, you can make wine from pretty much anything that contains sugar. Mead is basically honey wine after all.

The snobbish taste-stuff-in-wine people usually only violate grape wines, though, so I stand by my accusation ^^

 

[Verp]

Fuck wine! It tastes like juice made of unripe berries mixed with cough medicine.

 

[Triangulon]

I do prefer red. Usually full bodied such as a good cabernet sauvignon, merlot or shiraz. I also have a soft spot for the Campo Viejo Rioja. Where white is concerned, I do like it with white meat and fish but I'm not a fan of dry whites like pinot grigio (although I expect a very good one would be quite nice). I do like chardonnay. Aside from that a white zinfandel or Mateus rose is very nice on a summer's evening.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Red. Lots and lots, OF RED.

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[GiantRaven]

Fuck wine!

I find wine to be the foulest tasting of all the alcohols. I'd rather drink beer. Beer!

 

[tharglet]

White, because some red wines I seem to have an allergic reaction to (nothing severe, or never was when I drunk red).
Even if I did drink red, I'd prolly have white anyway by choice most of the time.

If it's a free choice of booze, then I'll take an ale, ta.