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Vile wine
Posted: 17:45 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
I am at Belfast International Airport waiting to fly to London. I ordered the only Old World red wine available by the glass but it is so vile that I think I cannot drink it. When was the last time you ordered something you really couldn't drink? (For the record, it's a bog standard Faustino Rioja.)
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 18:48 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by DRT
I am also drinking Rioja - what a coincidence!
Fortunately for me my glass of Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 2001 is far from vile
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 19:13 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
Hmph.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 19:28 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
Oh yes, pile on the misery. Derek's drinking the 904, Daniel is off to somewhere glamourous and here I sit with a glass of prosecco (bleugh) with Em watching the Strictly semi final. I'm going to search the cupboard for something I can actually drink.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 20:30 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
Prosecco? Owen. You surprise me.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:00 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
djewesbury wrote:Prosecco? Owen. You surprise me.
In a garden, in the summer, why not. Watching painful TV with a cold, not so good. Awful in fact. I have found brandy, the cheap stuff, pretending to paint the Christmas cake with it.
I am hoping Santy will bring me a tasting note on the 904 Rioja.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:01 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by DRT
If it is any consolation, that utterly fabulous bottle of 904 would have benefited from another ten years in bottle.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:05 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
Got an email from Berrys about magnums of this, as previously mentioned I am tempted. Unfortunately I think I have bent the Christmas wine budget about as far out of shape as it will go already.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:09 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by DRT
LGTrotter wrote:I am hoping Santy will bring me a tasting note on the 904 Rioja.
Owen!!
Santy's been!.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:11 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
Can I open this one now or do I have to wait 'til Christmas morn?
Oh please, please, please...
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:12 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by LGTrotter
Too late, I peeked in the cupboard and found it.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:47 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by AW77
djewesbury wrote: I ordered the only Old World red wine available by the glass but it is so vile that I think I cannot drink it.
This is why I prefer beer when I see that the wines on the wine list are no good.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:49 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:djewesbury wrote: I ordered the only Old World red wine available by the glass but it is so vile that I think I cannot drink it.
This is why I prefer beer when I see that the wines on the wine list are no good.
Usually a good idea, but in these places even the beer is horrendous. Harp, over-chilled Guinness, Budweiser. These are not 'beer' as any beer-lover would recognise. If you don't chance the wine you have to retreat into spirits.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 23:55 Sat 13 Dec 2014
by AW77
djewesbury wrote: If you don't chance the wine you have to retreat into spirits.
When you take a plane to go up in the air, you might as well "retreat into spirits" when you're still on the ground.
Re: Vile wine
Posted: 00:00 Sun 14 Dec 2014
by djewesbury
AW77 wrote:djewesbury wrote: If you don't chance the wine you have to retreat into spirits.
When you take a plane to go up in the air, you might as well "retreat into spirits" when you're still on the ground.
Agreed. So long as you're not flying the plane.