Are men allowed to drink white wine?

[Dujon]

Pru is dead, long live the Rock!

Rocky, my dear and hardened friend, there is nothing wrong (or even socially abhorrent) in a man drinking white wine. For a spell a few years ago I drank the odd gallon or two of red wine, and enjoyed it. These days I prefer a white to a red - probably because of the rough reds I drank stripped off the lining of my stomach.

Perhaps I'm lucky; I've had some fuzzy or 'dull' mornings over the years but a so-called hangover is a stranger to me. To me, being a non-combatant, a hangover seems to be a rotten headache, a propensity for the 'loo and nausea as a topperofferer.

Don't worry about it. Should you drink for the pleasure of the titillated palate then you drink for that reason; should you drink for the effect then who cares?

Cheers,

[Prufrock]

Pru, little tip A Cotes-De-St-Mont is the greatest secret in French wine.

Firstly can we PLEASE have less of this 'Pru' shit, I'm not an insurance company, if you must address me directly, I'd much prefer 'Mr Rock' ta very much.

Surely, Pru, it would be Mr. Frock - obviously your friends are right.
PS: Drink what you enjoy - colour doesn't matter.

Dammit you've got me. I tried to pull off the 'cool' nickname but you've seen through my erm...disguise

Furthermore, the 'F' is stands for my American middle name, which would be 'Stearns', if that began with an 'F'. So in fact i should be referred to as Mr Pru. F. Rock.

[Puskas]

never heard of Thunderbirds then Verbal?

Im guessing Thunderbirds is some form of cheap beverage, possibly of the cider variety? If we are on that plane, of getting spoon-eyed (I love how English gives you the capacity to put two unrelated words together, seperated by a hyphen, and it automatically means drunk)for next to nothing, the best method I have found is to combine White Lightening, and Lambrini. Seriously, it tastes like sugar, and you don't recall the next week. Not only that, you are so drunk you forget to take your wallet, and thusly cannot spend money buying random Bulgarian girls you have never met drinks because it seems a good idea at the time. It always seems a good idea at the time.

FFS.

Kids today.

Never heard of Thunderbird?

You'd never make a goth.

I'll bet you've never drunk Snakebite and black with a shot of pernod in it, either, have you?

Or own any LPs by the Neph....

Pah. Rubbish.

[Worthy4England]

Men can indeed drink white wine. It does look wussy though, in the hands of gentlemen who haven't reached a certain reflective maturity though.

[enfieldwhite]

Indoors - White Wine. I'm no afficianado, but I love a New World Semillon Chardonnay (get me!)


In the pub - Bitter. Real ale/ cask or chemically induced I care not.




Word to the wise. 8 pints in the pub followed by a bottle of white as a 'nightcap'? Don't.

[ratbert]

We now have threads on wine and art. Coming soon: The Wanderer debates Opera.

[Worthy4England]

We now have threads on wine and art. Coming soon: The Wanderer debates Opera.

Ahhh Senza Mamma.....from Suor Angelica can't whack it.

[Verbal]

never heard of Thunderbirds then Verbal?

Im guessing Thunderbirds is some form of cheap beverage, possibly of the cider variety? If we are on that plane, of getting spoon-eyed (I love how English gives you the capacity to put two unrelated words together, seperated by a hyphen, and it automatically means drunk)for next to nothing, the best method I have found is to combine White Lightening, and Lambrini. Seriously, it tastes like sugar, and you don't recall the next week. Not only that, you are so drunk you forget to take your wallet, and thusly cannot spend money buying random Bulgarian girls you have never met drinks because it seems a good idea at the time. It always seems a good idea at the time.

FFS.

Kids today.

Never heard of Thunderbird?

You'd never make a goth.

I'll bet you've never drunk Snakebite and black with a shot of pernod in it, either, have you?

Or own any LPs by the Neph....

Pah. Rubbish.

Snakebite is practically the first thing that gets thrust into your hand on uni sports socials...that or a pint consisting of guiness, baileys, tomato sauce, HP sauce, pernod and sambuca. All for getting the 'Goal of the Season' award.

[William the White]

We now have threads on wine and art. Coming soon: The Wanderer debates Opera.

Go, rats!!!

Di Provenza il mar from Verdi's La Traviata the most sublime aria ever...

Oh, i'm having an Oz Riesling with baked sea bass tonight... Fish, without chips, should i be questioning my sexuality?

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

i'm having an Oz Riesling with baked sea bass tonight... Fish, without chips, should i be questioning my sexuality?

Not with your siring record, sir!

Random notes:

Perfectly acceptable to drink white. I don't, often; I prefer lovely beer, as my waist increasingly bears witness. I like red but, as stated, it too often makes my head feel like it's being inhabited by a revved-up Iron Maiden (who, apparently, love wine themselves, red and white). White's fine. Either is bad in excess, which is easy to achieve – beer tends to stop you with fullness before foolhardiness. As Enfield (I think?) said, don't switch in late evening from beer to wine - once you've opened your throat you'll be supping at entirely the wrong speed.

Hangover tip: before bed, vitamin B. That's what you've denuded yourself of (along, quite possibly, with dignity). So while the last thing you do before collapse should be to have a full pre-pit pint of water (and take another to bed with you for the 4am gasp), chuck a vitamin B back. If things are still fuzzy in the morning, try a Berocca, and there's nowt better than a greasy breakfast; if that's out of the question, consider the humble Irn-Bru, and sugar in the form of a Mars bar or similar.

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, and not only would I say that it's ok for blokes to drink white wine, when it comes to eating a good 'meaty' fish like monkfish or halibut I really do prefer red wine, especially one like a Carmenere. This idea that certain food demands one wine or the other strikes me as nonsense as surely it's down to the individual's taste, no?

Oh, and the finest hangover cure that I've ever found is fresh mango, but boy does it want some eating when you've got Herp Albert and his Tijuana Brass Band as cranial squatters.

[Worthy4England]

i'm having an Oz Riesling with baked sea bass tonight... Fish, without chips, should i be questioning my sexuality?

Not with your siring record, sir!

If things are still fuzzy in the morning....

....that's the time to do brandy and port! works a treat.

[William the White]

Oh, and not only would I say that it's ok for blokes to drink white wine, when it comes to eating a good 'meaty' fish like monkfish or halibut I really do prefer red wine, especially one like a Carmenere. This idea that certain food demands one wine or the other strikes me as nonsense as surely it's down to the individual's taste, no?

Oh, and the finest hangover cure that I've ever found is fresh mango, but boy does it want some eating when you've got Herp Albert and his Tijuana Brass Band as cranial squatters.

I agree - i like a medium bodied red with salmon - rioja, chianti, best of all, burgundy... Yum...

[Bruce Rioja]

You're making me hungry now and I've already eaten!

[William the White]

To link the opera and food elements in this thread purporting to be about wine, my wife saw an Opera in Antwerp, in Flemish, called The Soluble Fish... ... but I've always thought that was a really much neater version of the 'you're as much use as a chocolate teapot/kettle/fireguard insult...'

Now, what wine is it that goes with a soluble fish?

[William the White]

You're making me hungry now and I've already eaten!

Is carmenere a chilean grape, or am I getting it mixed up? If it is i tried for the first time (half price in morrisons) last week. Thought it was excellent.

[Bruce Rioja]

You're making me hungry now and I've already eaten!

Is carmenere a chilean grape, or am I getting it mixed up? If it is i tried for the first time (half price in morrisons) last week. Thought it was excellent.

I thought that it's of French origin originally, but please don't quote me on that, I'm certainly no expert. The Chilean one that Morrisons are doing, if we're on about the same one, is Misiones D Rengo (I've just been out to the bottle bin) and I found to be absolutely superb. I don't know how long the offer's on for but I'm thinking of getting a case of it in.

[William the White]

You're making me hungry now and I've already eaten!

Is carmenere a chilean grape, or am I getting it mixed up? If it is i tried for the first time (half price in morrisons) last week. Thought it was excellent.

I thought that it's of French origin originally, but please don't quote me on that, I'm certainly no expert. The Chilean one that Morrisons are doing, if we're on about the same one, is Misiones D Rengo (I've just been out to the bottle bin) and I found to be absolutely superb. I don't know how long the offer's on for but I'm thinking of getting a case of it in.

that's the one - and i agree... excellent, and at that price...

[Bruce Rioja]

We'd better stop divulging this kind of stuff on here. There'll be no tables left for us dine on at El Rincon and no advantageously priced excellent Chilean wine left at Morrisons for us to console ourselves with when there aren’t!

[TANGODANCER]

I've never been snobbish about drink names or types. If you like it, drink it and bollox to the spectators. At home I steadfastly ignore the Harveys Bristol Cream type sherries and opt for that best kept secret, supermarket import (usually originating in the finest Spanish growing regions anyway but amazingly cheap here). This is purely for a glass pre-meal Saturday or Sunday. Don't laugh too much; most of these products are in the 17'5 % proof category which is about five times stronger than your actual lager.

I like a drop of medium sweet white wine when I feel like it, or a cold San Miguel when I don't. That's the only lager I like,although I do have s few of the Budweiser type things when the choice is limited. I do enjoy bottled Guiness but can't stand the draft stuff. That's in the same category etiquette wise as glugging out of bottles instead of glasses.

Here's an odd thing: Apart from mealtimes I never drink wine or sherry in Spain. My standard tipple there is Bacadri and lemonade with a few lumumbas thrown in during an evening's entertainment. Rarely touch either at home. Weird.

Lastly, I'd swap the lot for a creamy pint of Magees best mild. One thing for which the "old days" was decidedly better.