Pop A Cork - Wine

@jon357
sounds like something an alcoholic would buy.

Yesterday was a long evening. Yep, the ESC final. Small bottle of sweet liquid with a ruby color. 0.375l and 11.5% alcohol. Ruländer Beerenauslese Leiselheimer Gestühl. Wine from Breisach am Rhein. Producer bottling. Apparently this wine won a gold medal... but it does not say when. There is one fact that distinguishes this wine. This is a vintage, the wine is from 2001. If it were a dry white wine, after 24 years it would no longer be suitable for consumption. In this case it is the other way around, the wine tasted wonderful. It just took 24 years to wait for this. 🤔

Gin?

No, they tend to drink vodka, fruit flavoured 'wines' or nasty american 'whiskey'.


The last beerenauslese that I drank was crazily sweet.

Yes, but this sweetness ensures the longevity of this wine.

It's absolutely terrible. And gives biblical hangovers if you're foolish enough to have a second glass on the basis that it can't be worse than the first.

The only Polish gin I've had that I'd drink again is 24 Herbs Gin and that one is very much only to drink with tonic.


You're half right there. Well, if one takes the approach that all liquids are drinkable once, you're completely right.


Round here they're all on "Special Hard". I doubt you've seen it, as it's a Dino exclusive, but it's 12% (yes, twelve percent) and 3.99 for 500ml. Not a recreational drug.

Can't say I, or people I know ever experienced that.


Drink whatever. Including high end alcohols.

Alcoholics still mostly buy the cheap stuff though with some of the nastier bottom shelf vodka brands, plus those awful fruit wines, marketed especially for them.

Some of them. Others, high functioning, often drink good alcohols.

Most of them even. You're right that there are of course some alcoholics with money (I've known a few over the years including a couple of very well known politicians in PL, not publicly known to be drinkers) however the overwhelming majority are skint.

Hence the cheap stuff marketed to them.

Your kind of crowd

There is no such thing as "good" alcohol. Alcohol is poison that damages liver and causes cancer.

Before it kills you, it makes you stoopid.

His fancy "European wine" tastes like a budget bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 or Nightrain, just with a fancier accent on the label.

It also causes pancreatitis, impotence, addiction, and ultimately death. There are no "safe" amounts of alcohol you can drink.

When I first came to PL years ago, I was surprised to see Tennant's Super in some shops, the stuff in the purple tin that many who drink it hide inside paper bags.


Lubuski is fine.

God save us from 'craft gins' that don't even taste of juniper. Anyway, it always has tonic, ice and lemon, sometimes a dash of angostura, in it. At least you can get slimline tonic in PL nowadays.

I much prefer gin neat. But for that it has to be good quality. I really the seaside-influenced gins. Edinburgh Seaside is good if you fancy trying one of those. If you like that, get a bottle of Hills & Harbour, then a bottle of Harris. All those are at Lidl (at least winnicalidla anyway). I also like the Old Tom process gins, Cotswold Distillery do a particularly good one of those. If you want something closer to a classic gin but with a twist, Roku (Japanese gin) is very good, delicate and citrusey; but I'd stay the f*ck away from the Roku Sakura Blossom edition!

But I am with you when it comes to the flavoured gins, such as the ones that Whitley Neill make. Those are generally terrible (although the rhubarb and ginger from Edinburgh Distillery is surprisingly good).

Gordon's or Beefeater are both fine, as is Lubuskie.

I sometimes get Mason's Yorkshire gin at duty free but mainly for the bottle which tops up nicely with Lubiskie.

It really is just plain spirit rectified with a few herbs.

I'm a complete ignoramus on Gin. Google led me to Tanqueray for cocktails and I like the taste. Wife used to live a G&T but less so since kids arrived, she is normally using Bombay Sapphire

It's a good one. Same as Gordon's (same company) but a few more ingredients.

To be gin, they usually add juniper berries, lemon peel and something called orris root while distilling it. Some add more juniper after like a nalewka (juniper has a strong taste but isn't absorbed easily). The cheapest are just a nalewka.

If it doesn't taste of juniper anemometers is flavoured with raspberries or liquorice or basil, is it really gin.

Fashionable now, but we've been drinking it at home since long before it was, when it was still a drink for bourgeois elderly.


Also nice, however if it's got tonic, I e and lemon, there's not much difference between one that costs 150zl and one that costs 40zl.

If you want it fancy, pop a few allspice (ziele angielskie) in the bottle when you buy it. The flavour takes very quickly and it tastes of Christmas.

They would have to pay me this much to drink this crap...

I remember the days when smoking was cool and sophisticated. Then they tell you you have lung cancer...Not so cool anymore...

Surely someone is doing some tests that need paid guinea pigs. Apply.