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| Rickydodah Member Since: 14 Jul 2014 Location: East Sussex Posts: 1091  |
Yes I know what you mean, my palate was screwed by thirty years of cigar smoking. I can still detect what's sweet or dry but anything else not a chance. Mind you all the expensive stuff seems to have all these poncy adjectives to describe them where as the cheapo house wine doesn't and still tastes as good. However out of choice a real bitter, bitter is my choice, trouble is around here there are so many niche micro breweries springing up which produce beers with, a citrus after taste, strong plum and black currant high lites, dark Brazilian chocolate after notes......the best local pint around is Harvey's Best, no fancy names like dogs dangly dodahs just Best Bitter plain and simple.
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17th Dec 2014 4:05pm |
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| rtm89 Member Since: 14 May 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 256  
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Regardless of what the 'expert' says wine is all about personal preferences and tastes.
The flavours they detect are usually shared amongst the professional wine fraternity but are merely ways of communicating the level of body, sharpness and overall flavour. SWMBO works for a very well reputed independent wine trader and we still both differ on our palette of what we detect regularly even though we both are very into wines! It has to be said though that I can also tell you exactly which beer I'm tasting whilst blindfolded at the Theakston's brewery visitors bar which I frequent very regularly!!  |
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17th Dec 2014 4:08pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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Is that whilst still blindfolded rtm89? I've heard of those sort of places but I've never managed to get myself invited
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17th Dec 2014 4:49pm |
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| sharkey964 Member Since: 05 Oct 2014 Location: On a muddy track Posts: 576  
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It's all b******t,
We have a massive choice of wines here in France,in all price ranges. We buy wine,give it to all our guests,including a freind who considers himself a "wine buff".When asked what he thought of it he came out with all the usual hint of this that and the other, everyone comments on what wonderful wine it is. It's 1.59€ per bottle from the local supermarket. If it tastes good, then it is good wine. |
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17th Dec 2014 5:04pm |
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| IanW Member Since: 12 Jun 2011 Location: Gloucestershire Posts: 172 
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I think the subject has to be approached with gravity. Have a look at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B002ATI4VG Ian One wife - livid |
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17th Dec 2014 5:44pm |
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| jomara Member Since: 26 Oct 2009 Location: Lanarkshire Posts: 1790  
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^^
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17th Dec 2014 8:42pm |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3150 
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For me, every beer or lagar I have tried tastes literally like bile, I simply cannot drink it. I can just about have some wines but most taste a bit like some kind of weird mix of vinegar and what I imagine petrol tastes like.
Oddly, I can happily handle most kinds of cider although the stella ciders are mycurrent fave. 2011 110 USW 1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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17th Dec 2014 10:06pm |
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| redhandluke Member Since: 02 Jun 2013 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 243 
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Personally I can always tell the difference between Buckfast and Chateau Neuf du Pape-You only get the Buckfast in the chiller in my local off-licence!! Oh and CNDP is no use as paint thinners.
Steve |
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17th Dec 2014 11:46pm |
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| jomara Member Since: 26 Oct 2009 Location: Lanarkshire Posts: 1790
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I thought Lanarkshire was the only place you got The Coatbridge Beaujolais (Buckie) in the shop chillers!! See they now sell it in cans too!!
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17th Dec 2014 11:55pm |
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| Rickydodah Member Since: 14 Jul 2014 Location: East Sussex Posts: 1091 |
Buckie was just too expensive, so the head banger of choice was this
I started with nothing and still have most of it left!Last edited by Rickydodah on 10th Jan 2015 11:18am. Edited 1 time in total |
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18th Dec 2014 8:55am |
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| steventheplumber Member Since: 29 Apr 2014 Location: Lincolnshire Posts: 767 
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Will be having a bottle of Gewürztraminer tonight with fish and chips with side salad and lemon. Finsh it off with a glass of Port.
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19th Dec 2014 8:31am |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558
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i like a cornish cider maybe half a dozen times a year ( not really what you would a drinker
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afraid to say wine all tastes like a cross between anti freeze and ditch water to me , i would rather have glass of ribena |
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19th Dec 2014 9:03am |
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| uncas Member Since: 22 Nov 2012 Location: Wentworth near Rotherham Posts: 340
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I can't tell the difference at all I'm not a wine snob we usually go for what's on offer at the Local Tesco, Aldi do a nice Merlot from Chile called Andara,
Uncas |
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19th Dec 2014 10:24am |
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| celticpilgrim Member Since: 23 Nov 2014 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 26 
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bearing in mind your sense of taste is dictated by your sense if smell (when you have a bad cold you can't taste anything), I have no pallette for wine at all- heyfever since a kid &nasal polyps have sorted that...
However, put 3 or 4 red in front of me, and I'll know which one Mrs Pilgrim will like. Me, I'm ok with choosing ales & lagers!! |
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