Snobby wine drinkers only fool themselves

It amazes me how some wine-bibbers like to hide under the now-accepted phrase: "Red wine has health-giving properties." as their livers rot out.
You wouldn't believe some of the old toothless sots I've known who were once wealthy and got hooked on the drug "wine". They came to poverty and died young. That's how healthy THEIR red wine was.

I am on my 4th can of lager now (since 19:00 hours), as I don't ever drink tea or coffee, I always look for the cheap supermarket deals.

I don't like red wine, but if someone gives me a glass of white then it goes down like lager, but wine is not my prefered drink

I avoid getting anywhere near drunk, and I fail to understand people paying a lot for a bottle of wine, but if they want to pay £50-00 or more for a bottle of wine then it is up to them, the cash they pay, will pay someones wages.

I do enjoy a glass or three of red but with a decent bottle selling for around £3 / 3-30 Euro here in France its not hard to overconsume.!!

I drink loads and loads of wine. I am an unrepentant alcoholic and love it. Don't like beer though...

A friend of mine called me an alcoholic for ordering a Jack Daniels and coke with a meal. She drank a whole bottle of red wine.

"MikeP - You really are a foolish snob. " To put cheap rubbish on to the table". By this I assume that your unsurprisingly assuming a direct link between cost and quality . So are all 'inexpensive' wines rubbish ? Even if they were full price at £10 a bottle but actually bought for say 4 for £20 or similar.
Tnuc Ybbons 09-Mar-2009 22:53 "

How childish you are "Tnuc Ybbons" but small things please small minds and ressot a era uoy kniht I. Sorry for taking myself down to your level but I couldn't resist, must be that 75p/litre Kazakh plonk I've been on.

Of course there is a link between cost and quality. Do you want to tell me that a Renault is as good as a Mercedes? That a Bulgarian wine for £3 is as good as an Argentinian Malbec for £10?

There is a lot of snobbery and rubbish talked about wine and it's up to each individual to decide what he likes. I have never found a decent red wine in the UK for less than about £6 a bottle. I don't enjoy white wines and rarely drink them so can't comment.

I really hate these TV wine critics who talk and act like complete tossers and use expressions like - "the fruity bouquet is magnificent and you can feel every drop tantalising your tastebuds" or words to that effect!

It's all so fake!! What's non-alcoholic lager when it's at home? Brown water, perhaps?

Bulgarian Red .90p per bottle [Serve chilled] takes the harshness away nice summer drink.
I also like an aged Rioja which varies between £5-£15 per bottle.
Very hard to find grape is the Cinsault which is an excellent red about £3 per bottle.
Wine choice is by taste what suits and appeals to you not the cost or the brand.

There aren't that many ghastly wines on the market these days. You get the odd cheap bottle that has a taste of turps but the majority are sound. If you want to pay £1 for 8 litres of El Cheapo table wine then you know what to expect.

MikeP - You really are a foolish snob. " To put cheap rubbish on to the table". By this I assume that your unsurprisingly assuming a direct link between cost and quality . So are all 'inexpensive' wines rubbish ? Even if they were full price at £10 a bottle but actually bought for say 4 for £20 or similar.

Here's a tip. Did you know that you can very easily make very nice wine using the grape juice sold in supermarkets (sometimes at knockdown prices, 50p a litre). We're talking about pure grape juice here and not 'made from concentrate'. Some very basic equipment (pick it up on ebay, or better still Freecycle.org) and 3 or 4 weeks later. Perfectly drinkable wine at a fraction of the price that the shops will charge. Only complicate bit, you might need to control the acidity a bit and there's a table you can use to figure out how much sugar to add (not usually much as grapes are sweet anyway). When you consider that you can pay £5 and get a really crap bottle of wine and you can make a reasonable one for 50p its quite satisfying. Okay, it might not impress the connoisseur's but at the end of the day, room for improvement and everyone has their own taste.

Now matter how cheap, you judge a wine by its taste. If I buy a cheapwine and it is ghastly I do not buy it again.