Pop A Cork - Wine

Why ruin a good quality wine ?


It's never good to mix alcholic drinks such as beer and whiskey or whiskey and wine or wine and beer.
Any professional drinker knows that causes serious hang overs.
Campari is an Italian alcoholic liqueur obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit in alcohol and water.
To mix that with a quality sparkling wine sounds like a vomit inducing headache to me.
Sounds like something Ha Ha Hairy would drink for a Christmas drink.

Ruin?

Spritz Veneziano is a classic drink, With Campari, Aperol or Select.

Haven't you had it in Venice at sunset? Thousands do daily.


I prefer Picon, which of course in France is traditionally mixed with beer.

Classic drink in Italy is Chianti Classico.🍷

Yeah, now I suspect that he actually was drunk in all those films...still very funny though....I have just read a story about the making of the film "Lawrence of Arabia" and apparently both Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif spent most of their time drunk out of their skulls!

Among many many others.


He was. He was permanently sozzled while filming.

Not the only famous actor to go in front of the camera drunk.

Watch "the bank dick".

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Are you referring to Bacchus? The God of wine.

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has a pronounced gynecomastia as a symptom of liver cirrhosis typical of alcoholics....

Got a bottle of Josh Reserve North Coast Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 for a Christmas present.
Most enjoyable.

Most enjoyable - means already drunk?. It's a pity, wine is a living product. It can be stored for years. After few years it's mostly better.

No not drunk, a pleasant glow though.


Not true for all wine.
Especially the sweet white wines that will sugar out on you.
Mine doesn't last that long so I dom't worry about that happening.

Wine sucks. And the same goes for putrid coffee. I always laugh at the sheeple waiting in the Starbucks drive thru as I jovially drive past.

Wouldn't it be quicker to just go inside? Just saying.

I love watching coffee addicts freaking out when they run out of their java as well. They panic more than a junkie at a methadone clinic ! lol

They are the first ones to criticize pot smokers while they are slaves to caffeine and totally oblivious how hypocritical they sound.

Its only yuppies that drink wine and coffee..... Real men drink Beer!! Hahaha

Most people in the world who drink both are men


Most of which is fizzy muck.

My wife drinks both and she is not a man.🤔

Are you sure ?
Has she always been a woman ?
This is 2022 ya know.

Yes, he is. Why are you so doubtful??? Like Doubting Thomas.

In this day and age you never know with all the screwed-up Woke alphabet yo yo's that "identify".

Americans invented and propagated it in the world. You should respect your compatriots` achievements.

You should respect yours (PiS) achievements too as in practice what you preach. Simple
Now either get back on topic or get the f - out of here.

One od their sillier 'achievements' was prohibition of alcohol, pushed by evangelical Christians who thought they knew what was good for other people. It led to the rise of the mafia there and a number of other undesirable things.

Much better to have a glass of wine.

But it was you who started that stupid off topic exchange about LGBT+ in a wine thread. Check your post 136 where you asked: Has she always been a woman ?


They had seen too many families ruined by alcohol, too many poor kids and homeless people in streets. The reasons to ban alcohol looked very serious to them.

That was a big thing in the nineteenth century Methodist boom in the UK, mostly in industrial cities.

Probably too in America, however there, the impetus came from small town and rural WASPs. One explanation I read was that the existing settlers whose roots were in the UK and who were ultra-prot were shocked by more recent immigrants from beer-drinking Germany and from parts of the r*SSian empire.

Nope, I made a one liner joker that deserved no response, and it was YOU in the following post #137 that responded to it to take it Off-Topic.


Understandable as just look at all the lives that it has ruined and all the problems that it has caused.
Alcohol, like any other drug, should not be abused.

A week's holiday by the sea. Sparkling wine improves mood. No deadlines, great.💯🖕

Likewise. We're taking one in a few weeks, after I finish this stint on the dark continent. The criteria for choosing the place was a. convenient flights from Warsaw, b. warm weather in winter, c. very good food, d. cultural stuff and e. very good wine, not necessarily in that order.


This shall be a significant part of it.

Not a convenient flight from Warsaw however getting there is half the fun.
Have you ever been to the British Virgin Islands ?
Great food, a pirates culture, 24 to 28 C everyday in the winter with 90% sunshine.
You may have to switch from wine to rum coolers.

Probably better weather there than anywhere in Europe. We're still looking at destinations and it'll only be for a long weekend due to family stuff. Plus added complications that we're going there from different countries and returning home to Poland together.

One annoying thing is that although from Manchester or London, there are cheapish flights almost everywhere, from Warsaw there are fewer. Still, there are good possibilities, the south of France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Morocco; all with very nice wines and food.

My preference is France but probably we'll end up going somewhere hotter. Bari sounds interesting; not much tourism although there should be given how nice it looks and the food and wine in that region is supposed to be excellent. Plus, they have direct flights from Warsaw. I fancied Gibraltar (sounds interesting to see a bit of Britain on the Mediterranean) but it's not an easy journey from Poland so we probably won't.

Wherever we go, whether France, Spain, Italy or further, the wine will probably be both nice and cheap.

The Caribbean sounds fun. I've only been to Grand Bahama however that was for work a couple of times. The last time I was there, they met me at the airport and took me in a police car to meet the ship. The policeman turned round and said "if you've got anything with you, smoke it now in the car since they might be checking for stuff today". Made me wish I'd had some...

Taittinger vintage 2009 - Happy New Year. Prost.

Exactly. But tell it to alcoholics.