Wine and spirits thread

[pellegrino]

It's like why kids strongly prefer bland foods like macaroni and unaged cheese and sweets Like bleu cheese and the best literature wine and spirits are an acquired taste partly related to experience, a maturing of tastes, repetition, and education.

my daughters all love bleu cheeses of all sorts. They especially love gorgonzola and squeal with delight when the find out it's on the menu. Does this mean I should begin introducing them to wine and spirits?

[il Padrino Ute]

my daughters all love bleu cheeses of all sorts. They especially love gorgonzola and squeal with delight when the find out it's on the menu. Does this mean I should begin introducing them to wine and spirits?

Either that or no more books with pictures.

[MarkGrace]

My dads day -to-day Bourbon is Knob Creek or Makers Mark. One glass every night...doctors orders.

If I drank, this would be me.

[pellegrino]

Either that or no more books with pictures.

we're working on that.

[MarkGrace]

my daughters all love bleu cheeses of all sorts. They especially love gorgonzola and squeal with delight when the find out it's on the menu. Does this mean I should begin introducing them to wine and spirits?

Nice!

This is a favorite of mine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleu_d'Auvergne

[FN Phat]

If I drank, this would be me.

Yup. If I end up with my 'ol man's blood disorder this is what I would do. Seems very enjoyable.

[SeattleUte]

If you want to call plain chilled vodka a martini, be my guest. I know that you are not alone in this, and there is nothing shameful about drinking plain vodka, Cossack, but it is my humble opinion that you can't pour a cocktail straight out of a single bottle. That is not a recipe. That is an ingredient.

Face it, you just like to drink vodka, but think it sounds more neat-o to call it a martini. I like to drink plain vodka too. I just don't call it a martini.

It depends on the glass. You can pour it out of a bottle from your freezer, thick as karo syrup, and it's a matini if it goes into a martini glass, especially if you put an olive in it.

Vermouth in a good vodka is like ketchup on a good steak.

Extra dry martini is code for leave the cap on the vermouth when you tip the bottle.

[SeattleUte]

my daughters all love bleu cheeses of all sorts. They especially love gorgonzola and squeal with delight when the find out it's on the menu. Does this mean I should begin introducing them to wine and spirits?

We drank an Opus 1 today we'd been keeping for 7 years (a gift form our realtor). It's by far the most expensive wine I've ever drunk, and was the best wine I've ever drink, I think, in a very subtle way. We were lavishly praising it so naturally our kids (5 and 7) wanted a taste. We poured each a thimble full and they drank it. (There's an urban legend that this immunizes them from binge drinking in college because it becomes old hat.)

[pellegrino]

We drank an Opus 1 today we'd been keeping for 7 years (a gift form our realtor). It's by far the most expensive wine I've ever drunk, and was the best wine I've ever drink, I think, in a very subtle way. We were lavishly praising it so naturally our kids (5 and 7) wanted a taste. We poured each a thimble full and they drank it. (There's an urban legend that this immunizes them from binge drinking in college because it becomes old hat.)

excellent, my daughters are the same age, we'll get started on this right away.

[SeattleUte]

excellent, my daughters are the same age, we'll get started on this right away.

It's a very Parisian thing to do.

[landpoke]

It doesn't work.

[landpoke]

It doesn't work.

I'm not sure what I was going for here.

[Viking]

Pretty standard NYE fare: the widow in a yellow box but it never disappoints

[ERCougar]

I won't go as far as doctorcoug on this, as I think our alcohol restriction is pretty silly. I've said before that I'd support a restriction up to say...25; after that, people seem to drink much more responsibly.

But it puzzles me how alcohol is legal and marijuana isn't. All of the justifications for banning drugs apply to alcohol and it would be so nice if college freshman would go seek their buzz/high/etc through marijuana instead. Of course, they keep me in business.

Here's some anecdotal info. I teach once a month at an ER residency in a town of about the same size as my current one. The ER sees 3-4x as many patients a year. I've performed one paracentesis (draining of ascites fluid from an abdomen--a consequence of cirrhosis) since I've been here; I do one every time I visit the other town. It's really been eye-opening to see the real effects of widespread alcohol use (and obviously, we're talking abuse here, but I don't have a way to account for the difference in abuse without discussing the difference in baseline use).

[lambdacoug]

Last night...I totally went overboard. *sigh*