Is America the greatest country in the world?

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

tbergs said:

Welcome to the fucking Catalina wine mixer thread!!!

https://youtu.be/aTJMiLPV4P8

You know you love it!  I love how everyone is coming together because of vino, reminds me of Sunday dinner.  We even have spiritual drinking some wine this weekend!! It is in the 40’s here so I just opened a nice Sonoma cab. Allie your sister would kill me but when I drink red I have to put in ice cube or two. 

A caveman move.

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

mcgruff10 said:

tbergs said:

Welcome to the fucking Catalina wine mixer thread!!!

https://youtu.be/aTJMiLPV4P8

You know you love it!  I love how everyone is coming together because of vino, reminds me of Sunday dinner.  We even have spiritual drinking some wine this weekend!! It is in the 40’s here so I just opened a nice Sonoma cab. Allie your sister would kill me but when I drink red I have to put in ice cube or two. 

A caveman move.

I like my red wine cold. I admit it is a major rookie mistake. 

I don't think anyone could argue you don't own up to your errors, Scruffy!

mcgruff10 said:

Cheers @oftenreading   !!!  Only three ice cubes.

oftenreading said:

mcgruff10 said:

Cheers @oftenreading   !!!  Only three ice cubes.

Jesus. Why don’t you just freeze it and make a slushy? 

PJ_Soul said:

njnancy said:

PJ_Soul said:

oftenreading said:

PJ_Soul said:

I don't even care. I buy BC wines exclusively now, just to support the local economy. Luckily, BC wines are some of the best in the world too. Most Americans wouldn't know that though, apparently. I tried to find some BC wines when I was down there, and there was literally not a single bottle on the shelves in any of the stores I went to.

There are some good ones and some crap ones, and all tend to be overpriced, with the good ones at the extreme. Most good BC wines aren’t worth what they’re asking. 

I think they are (the good ones, that is... Luckily my sister is a sommelier, so she knows which winery has a good or bad batch in any given year. One year a wine can be award winning, and the very next year the exact same wine can be crap; that is true for cheap and expensive wines alike; some years the best wine on the shelf might be an $11 bottle, and the next year it could be the $40 bottle (although I would rarely buy anything that costs more than $20 - there is no need to go higher, because there are plenty of great BC wines for less than that) ... But I don't see the BC wines as any "worse" priced compared any other country's wine in BC stores. It's ALL way overpriced. FFS, I bought a couple bottles of wine in the US - the same bottles that would have cost about $15 here cost $6 there! Booze is so expensive in BC, it's insane.

Could your sister recommend any non-alcoholic wines? De-alcoholized wine. California used to make some decent ones - Ariel - but they don't make them anymore and the other stuff available is shit. Hoping she might know. I'll throw in USA/Canada to be thread appropriate.

And I put ice cubes in red wine also - it's good for your heart but bad for migraines (the wine, not the ice cubes). 

Thanks Ali.

I'm afraid not Nancy. She's never even tried any non-alcoholic wines and doesn't know anything about it.

njnancy said:

PJ_Soul said:

njnancy said:

PJ_Soul said:

oftenreading said:

PJ_Soul said:

I don't even care. I buy BC wines exclusively now, just to support the local economy. Luckily, BC wines are some of the best in the world too. Most Americans wouldn't know that though, apparently. I tried to find some BC wines when I was down there, and there was literally not a single bottle on the shelves in any of the stores I went to.

There are some good ones and some crap ones, and all tend to be overpriced, with the good ones at the extreme. Most good BC wines aren’t worth what they’re asking. 

I think they are (the good ones, that is... Luckily my sister is a sommelier, so she knows which winery has a good or bad batch in any given year. One year a wine can be award winning, and the very next year the exact same wine can be crap; that is true for cheap and expensive wines alike; some years the best wine on the shelf might be an $11 bottle, and the next year it could be the $40 bottle (although I would rarely buy anything that costs more than $20 - there is no need to go higher, because there are plenty of great BC wines for less than that) ... But I don't see the BC wines as any "worse" priced compared any other country's wine in BC stores. It's ALL way overpriced. FFS, I bought a couple bottles of wine in the US - the same bottles that would have cost about $15 here cost $6 there! Booze is so expensive in BC, it's insane.

Could your sister recommend any non-alcoholic wines? De-alcoholized wine. California used to make some decent ones - Ariel - but they don't make them anymore and the other stuff available is shit. Hoping she might know. I'll throw in USA/Canada to be thread appropriate.

And I put ice cubes in red wine also - it's good for your heart but bad for migraines (the wine, not the ice cubes). 

Thanks Ali.

I'm afraid not Nancy. She's never even tried any non-alcoholic wines and doesn't know anything about it.

Thanks anyway. Used to be able to get Ariel by the case each month - then it just disappeared. Demand not high enough, or not profitable enough. 

dignin said:

Ummmm.....

https://twitter.com/zachgoudie/status/1052391085828399115

lastexitlondon said:

Wine and beer???? Dear  god. Come on mcgruff 
I drink lots of both and as for wine.  I like some USA wine. But it cannot be no.1 in the world. And I have to say u.k real ale is the king of all beer.lager is just fart water.