Whatcha drinking (2025)?

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This, grape juice, it does look like wine from afar, haha, we’re going dry for the whole year until next Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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Same ol same ol - black coffee no sugar :(

I REALLY need a beer!!!!!! Can you sue the weather for deprivation of standard human rights and entitlements?????
 
At lunch this afternoon, our Fish & Chips place (they loads of other items as well) now serves cocktails and on the menu was Spiked Hot Chocolate - spiked with Peppermint Schnapps, MMM! Not I need to find some Schnapps to add to my growing bar ... :giggle:
 
rascal said:
the bottle.
Someone bought her a cheap wine.
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I only asked because , about 15 years ago, I was involved in gourmet festival which lasted 3 days. My stand was right in front of the sommelier's stand, so I thought, ok, now's the time to ask what wine goes best with curry.
SYRAH! they all exclaimed in unison.
The following day I went to every single wine purveyor at the event and tried their Syrah. The best was a Chilean and the worst two were Californian and Australian - waaaaaayyy too sweet.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Nope. Had to look it up.
All the ports I've ever tried were from Portugal. Didn't know there was an Australian one!
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Ahh yep and Grand Father Port (Dated) is very very good and expensive as hell, which brings me to the purpose of my question. I was doing a trip from Adelaide to Katherine in the Northern Territory - anyway we stopped at one of the very few outback pubs/camping grounds on our way there and did the right thing went in and had a few beers and a feed.

After my partner and I ate I asked if they had any Port (it was a thing back then) and the guy/barman/owner said he thought he had some old stuff in the cellar. Anyway, off he goes and comes back a few minutes later dusting off this bottle of port _ Dated Grand Father. I looked at him and hesitantly asked how much ... he looked at me and at the bottle and hell, it's been down there for years how does $5 (AUD) sound! I was agreeable (and have felt guilty ever since) and asked if he had any more to which he replied, yeah I think there's another 2 or 3 bottles of the stuff - you can have it if you really want it. One of theother bottles wasn't dated so my off sider and I settled in for a few ports.

When we got back to Adelaide my off sider told me to get the other two bottles valued, at that time I didn't really know that much about the stuff. Anyway long story shortened - one bottle was valued at $2000 and the other at $1500. The sad thing was I had work mates around one night and we knocked off the $1500 bottle - BEST hang over I ever had :D
 
That I am not sure of - I know it should be turned periodically and like wine, not left standing but on its side .... I'm really not sure though sorry.
 
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