White Chardonnay

[DAGTA]

I shall have to try some of these other rums... never heard of them before.
I have a bottle named Pyrat Rum in my cabinet that was a gift. It's unopened. Saving it for the first night in my first house.

 

[ScoobMaster]

You guys should come up here to the Finger Lakes area of NY sometime. There are some GREAT wineries there. We could charter a bus and have an ATOT Finger Lakes Wine Trail meet. After a dozen or so stops for wine tasting we'll all be feelin' happy 🙂

Finger Lakes Wine Country

 

[azazyel]

The only white I will even touch is a Sauvignon Blanc

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: KoolAidKid

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer. When drinking, it's either wine, Mike's Lemonade, or liquor for me. I had a friend teasing me last year that I like the 'girly' drinks. So, I offered to do a shot of Whiskey with him straight up. He declined.

But the best of all is..... RUM! A good Puerto Rican rum... such as Don Q's Gold... is awesome!

I'm assuming you mean white zinfandel, which is made from red zinfandel grapes with their skins removed. To each his own, of course, but IMO White Zin is for those who want to like wine but don't. Nothing more than a glorified wine cooler.

Eh, I think it's just that some people want a semi-refreshing drink, and don't necessarily want to dedicate themselves to wine education. I can appreciate that, but the cerebral aspect of wine appreciation is much more refreshing, imo.

I make my own beers and wines, so for refreshing I usually go a lower alcohol beer; tannic, high alcohol, and warm (relative to a chilled beer) wines just aren't refreshing on a summer day. The closest I get to a refreshing wine is a Beaujolais served ~55F. It's lower in alcohol, usually, it's cheap for a Cru, usually, and it's not that complex.

When I went to Germany they were ending the wine season, so everywhere you went was wine... free. They had this incredible tasting Federweisser wine which is somewhat analogous to the Beaujolais Nouveau--it's about as fresh as can be; there's remnant CO2 in some cases, you can still taste a little bit of yeast, and it's cloudy. It tasted almost like a fruit punch, but it was great on a hot day.

Ok, I'm shutting up now.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer. When drinking, it's either wine, Mike's Lemonade, or liquor for me. I had a friend teasing me last year that I like the 'girly' drinks. So, I offered to do a shot of Whiskey with him straight up. He declined.

Please tell me you're talking about RED zin and not that PINK/WHITE garbage called "zin". I love wine, but that stuff really is a girly drink. Sorry.

But the best of all is..... RUM! A good Puerto Rican rum... such as Don Q's Gold... is awesome!

Word. Mount Gay + tonic + lime = best summer drink ever.



.....huh huh.....Fausto said "gay".....huuh...huh....

I picked up some of that Mount Gay rum after you suggested it in some other thread (I don't remember the thread). It was good but a little sweeter rum than I was used to. Still keep some around to change my drinks up every now and again though. 🙂

Cockspur is another on to look for; it's a bit more alkaline than the Mount Gay.


hehe...."gay"....."cock'.....I think Fausto's trying to tell us something....


😛

Thanks, I'll try that one too. 🙂

Lately my rum of choice has been the Bacardi 8.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer. When drinking, it's either wine, Mike's Lemonade, or liquor for me. I had a friend teasing me last year that I like the 'girly' drinks. So, I offered to do a shot of Whiskey with him straight up. He declined.

Please tell me you're talking about RED zin and not that PINK/WHITE garbage called "zin". I love wine, but that stuff really is a girly drink. Sorry.

But the best of all is..... RUM! A good Puerto Rican rum... such as Don Q's Gold... is awesome!

Word. Mount Gay + tonic + lime = best summer drink ever.



.....huh huh.....Fausto said "gay".....huuh...huh....

I picked up some of that Mount Gay rum after you suggested it in some other thread (I don't remember the thread). It was good but a little sweeter rum than I was used to. Still keep some around to change my drinks up every now and again though. 🙂

Cockspur is another on to look for; it's a bit more alkaline than the Mount Gay.


hehe...."gay"....."cock'.....I think Fausto's trying to tell us something....


😛

Thanks, I'll try that one too. 🙂

Lately my rum of choice has been the Bacardi 8.

I use Bacardi in frozen drinks or whatever, but that's about it. It just doesn't really have much character on its own.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer.

You're a woman. Face it. 😀

As has been pointed out already, zinfandel is a red grape so your second and third sentences don't match! Incidentally, most champagne (the real ones, from France) are made with red grapes, and many white wines are, too. For French wine, unless it says "blanc de blancs", it's made with red grapes, not white ones (there may some leeway in that, meaning that not all blanc de blancs have the label statement -- not sure on the French laws about that one).

wines just aren't refreshing on a summer day. The closest I get to a refreshing wine is a Beaujolais served ~55F. It's lower in alcohol, usually, it's cheap for a Cru, usually, and it's not that complex.

I know that rosés have a feminine connotation for some reason, but try a good one from Provence on a summer's day -- Tavel is the appellation that's most well known. I'll usually only drink white wine in the summer but almost always prefer red. I spent some time in Alsace last year though, and it opened my eyes to some good whites beyond Reisling. Beaujolais is just foul though. The French market the stuff, but they almost universally agree that it's swill. I'll drink it with some cheese since it's so damn cheap. 🙂

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer. When drinking, it's either wine, Mike's Lemonade, or liquor for me. I had a friend teasing me last year that I like the 'girly' drinks. So, I offered to do a shot of Whiskey with him straight up. He declined.

Please tell me you're talking about RED zin and not that PINK/WHITE garbage called "zin". I love wine, but that stuff really is a girly drink. Sorry.

But the best of all is..... RUM! A good Puerto Rican rum... such as Don Q's Gold... is awesome!

Word. Mount Gay + tonic + lime = best summer drink ever.



.....huh huh.....Fausto said "gay".....huuh...huh....

I picked up some of that Mount Gay rum after you suggested it in some other thread (I don't remember the thread). It was good but a little sweeter rum than I was used to. Still keep some around to change my drinks up every now and again though. 🙂

Cockspur is another on to look for; it's a bit more alkaline than the Mount Gay.


hehe...."gay"....."cock'.....I think Fausto's trying to tell us something....


😛

Goddammit!!... that's two throwbacks you've ruined..

greedy self-exploiting bastard...

😛

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer.

You're a woman. Face it. 😀

As has been pointed out already, zinfandel is a red grape so your second and third sentences don't match! Incidentally, most champagne (the real ones, from France) are made with red grapes, and many white wines are, too. For French wine, unless it says "blanc de blancs", it's made with red grapes, not white ones (there may some leeway in that, meaning that not all blanc de blancs have the label statement -- not sure on the French laws about that one).

wines just aren't refreshing on a summer day. The closest I get to a refreshing wine is a Beaujolais served ~55F. It's lower in alcohol, usually, it's cheap for a Cru, usually, and it's not that complex.

I know that rosés have a feminine connotation for some reason, but try a good one from Provence on a summer's day -- Tavel is the appellation that's most well known. I'll usually only drink white wine in the summer but almost always prefer red. I spent some time in Alsace last year though, and it opened my eyes to some good whites beyond Reisling. Beaujolais is just foul though. The French market the stuff, but they almost universally agree that it's swill. I'll drink it with some cheese since it's so damn cheap. 🙂

You might be referring to the Beaujolais Nouvea, which most everyone knows is crap, but it's the festivals that go along with it that carries so much attention. A Cru Beaujolais is far, far superior to a Beaujolais Nouveau or a normal Beaujolais. Anyway, it's never great, but I still think it's decent.

I just returned from a vacation through the Alsace, although I spent most of my time along the Rhine and Mosel. I got pretty tired of white wine after having countless offerings of it, but there was some good Riesling to be had. The Mosel river was incredible, and the wines were considerably better.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: DAGTA
I don't care what people think of my drinking preferences. 🙂 My favorite wines are Chardonnays and Zinfandels. I don't like red wine. I also don't like beer and do not drink any beer.

You're a woman. Face it. 😀

As has been pointed out already, zinfandel is a red grape so your second and third sentences don't match! Incidentally, most champagne (the real ones, from France) are made with red grapes, and many white wines are, too. For French wine, unless it says "blanc de blancs", it's made with red grapes, not white ones (there may some leeway in that, meaning that not all blanc de blancs have the label statement -- not sure on the French laws about that one).

wines just aren't refreshing on a summer day. The closest I get to a refreshing wine is a Beaujolais served ~55F. It's lower in alcohol, usually, it's cheap for a Cru, usually, and it's not that complex.

I know that rosés have a feminine connotation for some reason, but try a good one from Provence on a summer's day -- Tavel is the appellation that's most well known. I'll usually only drink white wine in the summer but almost always prefer red. I spent some time in Alsace last year though, and it opened my eyes to some good whites beyond Reisling. Beaujolais is just foul though. The French market the stuff, but they almost universally agree that it's swill. I'll drink it with some cheese since it's so damn cheap. 🙂

You might be referring to the Beaujolais Nouvea, which most everyone knows is crap, but it's the festivals that go along with it that carries so much attention. A Cru Beaujolais is far, far superior to a Beaujolais Nouveau or a normal Beaujolais. Anyway, it's never great, but I still think it's decent.

I just returned from a vacation through the Alsace, although I spent most of my time along the Rhine and Mosel. I got pretty tired of white wine after having countless offerings of it, but there was some good Riesling to be had. The Mosel river was incredible, and the wines were considerably better.

Yes, you're right -- I was referring to Nouveau since you were talking about "new" wines earlier. Don't know that I have ever had a Cru from there, though I have tried about 4-5 of the appellations (Morgon is a decent one, I remember).

Actually, I discovered that the best whites are NOT Reisling, strangely enough, which is what I always thought. I had some fantastic Gewurtztraminer which weren't at all overly sweet, and the Tokay Pinot Gris were out of this world. I was able to attend an Alsatian Grand Cru wine tasting event which had about 60 vineyards, each offering 5 or more different Grand Cru -- all for 8 euros! Unfortunately they weren't selling anything there, but we made a trip to a couple places and bought our fill. 🙂