Red wine

bilbot79

What you need is a decent haut medoc. I think Chateau lamothe sissac might be one.

Surreptitious

Red red wine stay close to me ehhhehhh.

LordSutch

UB40.

Mr. FoggPatches

I like my wine to have an aroma of ochre, with a lingering hint of oak and daisies and to taste of a deep firesmoked chestnut with a cheeky infusion of granite and the aftertaste of sweat.
Ideally lidl have a Chilean red fulfils these requirements for me - chateau de pretentious mile neuf cent de social climber.


(I've never drank red wine)

LordSutch

Full bodied for me please.

tritium

If you want sweet red it is possible to get red dessert wines and often relatively cheap since everyone seems to think they only make white dessert wine. I remember spotting some a few years back that was dated the year i was born, so i bought a few for special birthdays, delicious but i do like dessert wines. Do be aware theyre very sweet compared to most other wines.

Id agree with several posters that pinot noir is a lovely light red to get started on. Another quite different but very nice one if you can spot a decent bottle for a good price is chateauneuf de pape.

Surreptitious

Surreptitious wrote: »

Red red wine stay close to me ehhhehhh.

LordSutch wrote: »

UB40.

You be Sutch?- LordSutch?:D

ROS123

I like on occasional glass of red, but invariably I end up throwing out a half or a third of a bottle on occasion because I don't finish it within a couple of days. While visiting a relative abroad, they were drinking from boxes of Red wine. They could pour a glass or three and the box was sealed, they could go back to it a day or two later and it still tasted good. I like the idea of this, a box handy on the worktop, pour a glass when you feel like it and leave it for a day or two and return again when the desire reappears.

I haven't seen many boxes (3l) for sale, any advice other than avoid boxes of wine..

harry Bailey esq

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Just one moment please..

Aongus Von Bismarck to reception please, Aongus Von Bismarck.

Bismark is a reisling chap,the op wants a non overpowering red as an into to red wine so any notes he made would fall on deaf ears.
Personally, from the minute amount of the OPs taste id reccomend a mid strengh merlot from new Zealand.Nice way of tasting many wines without breaking the bank.

Arne_Saknussem

Aldi do a passable Chateauneuf du Pape for €15.

A 'Cheeky little number', in the immortal words of Eddie Hitler.

Berwick

I once had created a wine thread in this forum.

Now I see that it has been closed.

Why?

I think wine is an endless topic!

Why close it?

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120164168#Comment_120164168

I disagree, red wine is either horrible, good or great, not much more too it. All that pretentious what year, flavours, sweetness etc still just amounts to horrible, good or great.

BaywatchHQ

I have found wine to be a useful drink if you want to get drunk for a few hours but not blackout level drunk. I find that it is best to drink the bottle within a space of 10 minutes as if you drink it slowly over an hour you aren't even going to get drunk. Both red and white wine are vile poison, I don't understand how anyone can enjoy the taste of any alcoholic drink.

AllForIt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120165100#Comment_120165100

Yea, but I don't think discussion of the differences in taste is pretentious though, because that's real, I'd agree with all the other stuff you mention. I don't like sweet red wines myself so I'd need to know which are and which aren't particularly.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167339#Comment_120167339

I think it's weird that you would drink a bottle of something that you don't like within 10 mins, isn't getting drunk meant to be fun?

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/101755230#Comment_101755230

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/101755349#Comment_101755349

Agree on the Marquis, top stuff, and tempranillo in general as an easy drinking red, and wouldn't drink a sav blanc from anywhere else.

As for the OP looking for a sweet wine, i find the Dada no. 1 to be sickly sweet, so probably be right up their street.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167339#Comment_120167339

Kids, dont try this at home. Or outside either.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167579#Comment_120167579

OP hopefully figured it out since 2016!

Yeah I only copped that on second look.

But for those looking for reds that have some sweetness to them there is Dada as you note.

Menage a Trois

Dark Horse

Apothic

19 Crimes

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167612#Comment_120167612

Lol didn't even notice that, who resurrected this thread!!

Op is obviously living under a bridge now.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167637#Comment_120167637

Hopefully sipping a bottle of Port to keep warm.

That would be the logical progression step.

standardg60

Berwick!

Should have known, always up to no good, like pretending to be Scottish.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167339#Comment_120167339

Drink a bottle in ten minutes is it ?

Not even in ten days according to the latest proposed alcohol guidelines in Canada.

They reckon 2 148ml glasses per week is your limit.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167339#Comment_120167339

Wrong! I'm a pint drinker.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120167431#Comment_120167431

Tipsy is fun. Drunk ain't.

Deregos.

I gave up drinking wine years back, but I've noticed that recently its slowly sneaking its way back into my life again, as I've been using it a lot of red wine for cooking.

Sometimes I even put it in the food.

odyssey06

Just one thing... short BBC podcast with Michael Mosley.

Choose Red Wine...

Something about fermented polyphenols and a glass of red with dinner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hp70

Northpole

i like gewürztraminer

Northpole

as i said above

Bobson Dugnutt

Where did Aongus Von Bismarck go to? Doing 15 years in a minimum security prison for financial crimes? Lost climbing the Matterhorn? Packed it all on to become a roadie for Kraftwerk?

Grayson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/101750001#Comment_101750001

Always given me a rotten hangover. So I stick to the whiskey.