I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss about wine. At the end of the day its purpose is to get people drunk and not taste too bad along the way. Turning it into a sorta-science seems silly to me, as the endgame is getting wasted. ;-)
OTOH, I used to be like that with tea, especially Green Tea and Oolong. When it comes to tea, I can be a real snob, and with good reason. With tea there really are so many subtle nuances it boggles my mind to this very day. If you are in the position to do some research, spend some money on fine teas, you can experience tasty pleasures that are beyond what words can describe. And I can go on and on and on about that, without noticing that people who do not care about tea that much get bored really fast.
So to some other people, wine is what tea is for me. And in fairness, I have not much experience drinking fancy wines. But I have no desire to, either. When I want sophisticated nuanced sensual pleasure, I drink Tea. When I want to get blotto, I drink wine.
These days, I am more pragmatic about it, but I still shiver at the sight of teabags.
>I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss about wine. At the end of the day its purpose is to get people drunk and not taste too bad along the way.
"I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss about sex. At the end of the day its purpose is to make babies and not be too unpleasant along the way."
We’re pleasure-seeking animals with an incredibly strong sex drive. I don’t see how that’s remotely comparable to drinking one of a vast array of tasty intoxicants.
Definitely stay far away from wine if you care about your wallet. With what you have said about teas it would only be a matter of finding the correct wine (I think people call it their Eureka wine?) and you would be hooked in a far more expensive habit.
My wife is a winemaker, we work on wines together, and we rarely drink wine for the sole purpose of getting drunk. We love wines far more than any other alcoholic beverage, however the quality to price ratio of beer or spirits is orders of magnitude more reasonable than wine when just looking to enjoy an evening. We reserve wine for special occasions, regular get togethers with our industry friends, and when she either come homes with free wine from work or a bottle from another home or professional winemaker looking for opinions. We certainly couldnt afford to regularly drink the wines she makes ($40-$150) but we have a great appreciation for those that can.
Drink a beer with a similar level of alcohol and residual sugar to a wine and in almost every case (even most natural wine) the beer will be almost impossible to enjoy. The vast majority of high alcohol beers rely on sugar to strike a balance that the natural components of wine achieve effortlessly. What separated vitis vinifera wine from all other fermented beverages to me is that wine has an ability to effortlessly strike balance no other alcohol can compare with.
The romanticism of wine for better or worse has built a market willing to spend significantly more on wine than they do on all but the most expensive spirits in the world. This over millennia has allowed winemakers the freedom to explore, understand, and later control the most minute details of viticulture and enology in the pursuit of eeking out ever more flavor and nuance from fermented grapes.
>I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss about wine. At the end of the day its purpose is to get people drunk and not taste too bad along the way. Turning it into a sorta-science seems silly to me, as the endgame is getting wasted
If one is 20 maybe. But then they can just down some Jägermeister shots or something, no need to mess with wine.
>When it comes to tea, I can be a real snob, and with good reason. With tea there really are so many subtle nuances it boggles my mind to this very day.
Ugh, Jägermeister is disgusting. If the primary objective is getting as drunk as possible, Vodka is usually the most efficient vehicle. Or Tequila. Wine and beer make it easier to pace yourself. Plus, wine tastes better.
> > When it comes to tea, I can be a real snob, and with good reason. With tea there really are so many subtle nuances it boggles my mind to this very day.
> And with wine there are not?
I can well imagine that there are wines that can be just as rich an experience as tea. I just know next to nothing about fine wines. Tea tends to be cheaper, plus I can drink tea at work without getting into trouble. ;-)
OTOH, I used to be like that with tea, especially Green Tea and Oolong. When it comes to tea, I can be a real snob, and with good reason. With tea there really are so many subtle nuances it boggles my mind to this very day. If you are in the position to do some research, spend some money on fine teas, you can experience tasty pleasures that are beyond what words can describe. And I can go on and on and on about that, without noticing that people who do not care about tea that much get bored really fast.
So to some other people, wine is what tea is for me. And in fairness, I have not much experience drinking fancy wines. But I have no desire to, either. When I want sophisticated nuanced sensual pleasure, I drink Tea. When I want to get blotto, I drink wine.
These days, I am more pragmatic about it, but I still shiver at the sight of teabags.