The Wine & Whisky Thread

[archiesdad]

If you're near Dunfermline I can recommend a visit to "The Commercial" in Queen Anne St, they do a nice range of hand pull ales, changes made weekly. Ossian by The Inveralmond Brewery is my tipple tonight, comfy in the house away from the cold night air, a nice malt may wash it down later.

[Rare Bird]

I had a party on this yesterday & doan i know about it this morning

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Domai.../dp/B005CX9LW8

The wife was on this below, she'll be in a coma all today hence some peace & quiet

http://www.marksandspencer.com/La-Vi..._rd_s=center-3

[Marco]

That's a nice wine, dude, at a bargain price! You like your Shiraz, don't you?

I know why, as they're 'big', jammy, powerful and packed full of flavour... I like them sometimes too, as they're a nice change from the more traditional French and Italian wines I normally drink. You should try some of the Chilean and Argentinean stuff, too.

Watch all those calories, though, with your diet!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Yes Shiraz is my fav, don't worry about calories i'm very good with food intake at weekends

[Marco]

Trouble is, dude, and please don't take this the wrong way, but that's not a recipe for a healthy diet, as all the good that you're doing your body by eating healthily is being ruined by alcohol 'abuse'....

It's all a bit 'arse about tit'. Think of the effect that the alcohol is having on your liver. You only have to research this on the 'net.

S'up to you what you do, though. IMO, you'd be far better off enjoying a few nice meals and cutting down on your alcohol intake (especially with the amount of calories in wine), than binging on red wine and then living off of rabbit food!

But then, being Italian, I have a rather different attitude towards alcohol (and food) than most people in the UK, as I just don't get the attraction of getting totally drunk. I gave all that up when I was 17.

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Yeh your right it's not good but i refuse to give my drinkipoos up at the weekend. Anyhoots it's only till im done on my diet which should be around five weeks. Ive actually finished my diet now but i want to get a bit more off because of the up & coming Holiday abroad where i want to enjoy myself without watching the calories.

[Marco]

No worries, dude. I guess that you get as much pleasure from your "drinkipoos" as I do from Del cooking me a nice meal, and enjoying ONE good bottle of red wine between us, with the meal.

I think it's a fundamental difference in cultures. Italians live to eat, not eat to live (as in general Brits do), and Brits live to get pished......!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

To be honest i don't like food i think it's a pain in the arse having to eat a few times a day never mind a waste of a large chunk of my money & time but you have to eat to live i suppose

However people have different attitudes to drinking, some go out to socialize some to pull birds some to get pished, im in the latter, i don't see the logic in drinking without getting drunk one thing i don't understand is how someone can become an alkerolic, ive been on a few week long benders in my time but never been dependant on it!

As you know i have zero value for life & if i can get out of this shitty world by getting dwunk i will do so

[Marco]

Lol... I understand where you're coming from, dude, but can't empathise with it in any way.

You know that we agree on many things, but when it comes to our attitudes towards food and drink, we *are* literally living in different worlds!!

Marco.

[Barry]

Oh André, André, André ....

You have it 'all about face'! The point is to enjoy life! You and I are not so different - we have both been 'shafted' in our times; at least you have a partner you care about and who cares about you.

If it wasn't for my friends, music, food, drink and travel, I think I might have 'topped' myself years ago.



Booze is not the panacea, but knowing you like Shiraz, I can recommend the following:

2010 Fairview 'The Black Road', Shiraz Pinotage



An Aussie 'slurp', the Shiraz grape gives it a big 'bold' flavour (in 'wine speak', Shiraz is spoken of as being "generous"), as well as providing 'spice and pepper' flavours.

14% ABV, about £10 a bottle.