storm Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Just a post script - My bp just went down from 140/100 to 120/80, thanks to the two bottles! Now that's good medicine! :thumbsupsmiley: Kala ko pare, the same year tayo graduate ng high-school? what I did, pare nagpakulo ako ng tubig then I put a handful of salt then I inhaled the fumes - medyo nakagaan naman ng pakiramdam, although mas maganda sana kung wine and ibinuhos ko dun Buti naman at magaling ka na. Mas bata naman ako kasi 1960 ako ipinanganak. Mga pare!Lumagpas na naman pala yung anniversary ng Thread!Two years na last July 24 - can anybody imagine a thread like this prospering for two years??!!Well, malakas siguro talaga batak ng wine Thanks to everybody who has kept this thread alive in one way or another - more power to all the winos out there!!! cheers! O ano, eb na tayo? Belated party!!! :cool: Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 Pare, one needs al ittle poison to be stronger. There is such as thing as "annihilation of the weak and the survival of the fittest!" Pare, you should have done it! Nothing beats the smell of alcohol evaporating in a hot pan!!!! Truly heavenly!!!! Especially if you are deglazing a pan used for cooking lamb or steak!!!!I agree! I have started my daughter, who is 10y.o. to sip wines. I make sure she has her own glass so she feels that she's not "salim-pusa" doing it. I help her discover wines by assisting her. I give her a run down of the color, smell, taste and finish. In my household, wine and food are serious business!!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Thanks to you pare, just like the acquaintances we developed, this thread is alive and well!!!! pare the way you're starting up your daughter this early, she might grow up to be the Jancis Robinson of the Philippines, or maybe the local Helen Turley if she gets serious enough seems like we just cruised along, then two years na pala...thanks to all you guys! Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 :thumbsupsmiley: Buti naman at magaling ka na. Mas bata naman ako kasi 1960 ako ipinanganak. O ano, eb na tayo? Belated party!!! :cool: hehehe oo nga - baka late bloomer lang ako kaya yung EB will be courtesy of you early-bloomer storm and your surging thread Quote Link to comment
Aquarian Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I love wine....especially red wine Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted July 29, 2006 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Pare, one needs al ittle poison to be stronger. There is such as thing as "annihilation of the weak and the survival of the fittest!" Pare, you should have done it! Nothing beats the smell of alcohol evaporating in a hot pan!!!! Truly heavenly!!!! Especially if you are deglazing a pan used for cooking lamb or steak!!!!I agree! I have started my daughter, who is 10y.o. to sip wines. I make sure she has her own glass so she feels that she's not "salim-pusa" doing it. I help her discover wines by assisting her. I give her a run down of the color, smell, taste and finish. In my household, wine and food are serious business!!!!CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Thanks to you pare, just like the acquaintances we developed, this thread is alive and well!!!!pare the way you're starting up your daughter this early, she might grow up to be the Jancis Robinson of the Philippines, or maybe the local Helen Turley if she gets serious enough seems like we just cruised along, then two years na pala...thanks to all you guys! Two years! Wow.........congratulations all! I took my family to France some years ago (must have been 14 years now!) and drove through Champagne, Burgundy and the Loire over a period of 3 weeks. that car must have known where every winery was! As we got close to one, it would slow down and as if it had amind of its own, it would turn into the driveway and stop! WEll, since I was there anyway, I decided I would taste the wines. My daughter was 14 that summer, but that didn't stop the winemakers from pouring her a glass just as they poured me one. Them and the restaurateurs....when I ordered wine, they would automatically bring her a glass too! (And my wife as well, though I drank HER wine! ) I remember one place we stopped along the road in Nuits St. Georges - a negociant had set up a wine cellar, shop and tasting room. He asked if i liked pinot noirs, and then proceeded to do a tasting of the past seven vintages. My daughter tasted right alongside me - and it was her wine conversion moment. We got to the wine that was 5 years old, and she looked at me with big, wide eyes and said - "So THAT's what wine is all about!" She's been a wine drinker since, and has never succumed to drinking a cheap wine just to get drunk. It's the good stuff or nothing for her! Congrats again, Bods! May this thread live many more years! Like a fine red, it gets better with age! Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 I love wine....especially red wine hello! care to tell us of your wine-drinking experiences?do stick around and we do hope you can learn more about wine here... Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted July 29, 2006 Author Share Posted July 29, 2006 Two years! Wow.........congratulations all! I took my family to France some years ago (must have been 14 years now!) and drove through Champagne, Burgundy and the Loire over a period of 3 weeks. that car must have known where every winery was! As we got close to one, it would slow down and as if it had amind of its own, it would turn into the driveway and stop! WEll, since I was there anyway, I decided I would taste the wines. My daughter was 14 that summer, but that didn't stop the winemakers from pouring her a glass just as they poured me one. Them and the restaurateurs....when I ordered wine, they would automatically bring her a glass too! (And my wife as well, though I drank HER wine! ) I remember one place we stopped along the road in Nuits St. Georges - a negociant had set up a wine cellar, shop and tasting room. He asked if i liked pinot noirs, and then proceeded to do a tasting of the past seven vintages. My daughter tasted right alongside me - and it was her wine conversion moment. We got to the wine that was 5 years old, and she looked at me with big, wide eyes and said - "So THAT's what wine is all about!" She's been a wine drinker since, and has never succumed to drinking a cheap wine just to get drunk. It's the good stuff or nothing for her! Congrats again, Bods! May this thread live many more years! Like a fine red, it gets better with age! wow! so your daughter has turned out to be a great wine enthusiast. That's one great thing about wine. If you had made your child taste vodka or scotch or brandy, or even beer at 14 years of age, I don't think he or she will enjoy the experience, much less grow up to be a devotee of such a drink. Wine is so much easy on the palate, I guess but of course we would all be in hot water here if we aggresively endorse wine to pre-teens Two years and running, pare! I do hope this thread is not some kind of a drink-now wine..... Quote Link to comment
storm Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Hangga't may MTC, buhay ang thread na ito :thumbsupsmiley: Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 wow! so your daughter has turned out to be a great wine enthusiast. That's one great thing about wine. If you had made your child taste vodka or scotch or brandy, or even beer at 14 years of age, I don't think he or she will enjoy the experience, much less grow up to be a devotee of such a drink. Wine is so much easy on the palate, I guess but of course we would all be in hot water here if we aggresively endorse wine to pre-teens Two years and running, pare! I do hope this thread is not some kind of a drink-now wine..... She likes her wine.......so I bring her some bottles every time I drive to LA to visit. Last time around I brought her a mixed case of reds and whites. She's more of a white wine drinker but she likes the ligher reds as well. Nothing wrong with hard lioquor but it's so much more intense that it's hard for a child to appreciate the subtelties. Than and the fact that you get drunk so much faster with hard liquor make it unsuitable for younger palates. Quote Link to comment
floppydrive Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 A trip to a wine region, with the wineries' best wines available for tasting is a great way to introduce someone, young or old to our fave drink! That's how I got started. Last night, we had a 2003 Durbanville Hills (South Africa) Merlot. I'm not a real fan of Merlot, but this one was fantastic! Great fruity boquet, with very storng plum. Well balanced in the palate, with a great finish. The plum flavor lingers and was great with Peking Duck (Here's a perfect match for a chinese duck!). Great bottle! Too bad there was only one of it. Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 She likes her wine.......so I bring her some bottles every time I drive to LA to visit. Last time around I brought her a mixed case of reds and whites. She's more of a white wine drinker but she likes the ligher reds as well. Nothing wrong with hard lioquor but it's so much more intense that it's hard for a child to appreciate the subtelties. Than and the fact that you get drunk so much faster with hard liquor make it unsuitable for younger palates. The teen years are the most critical - that's when they begin to dally with high-alcohol stuff due to peer pressure and the college environment. I wonder how it would be for someone who was weaned to wine at an early age - I mean would they still have that overwhelming curiosity to try more potent stuff in their teens? I don't have any personal experience with this... Quote Link to comment
bods1000 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Share Posted August 1, 2006 A trip to a wine region, with the wineries' best wines available for tasting is a great way to introduce someone, young or old to our fave drink! That's how I got started. Last night, we had a 2003 Durbanville Hills (South Africa) Merlot. I'm not a real fan of Merlot, but this one was fantastic! Great fruity boquet, with very storng plum. Well balanced in the palate, with a great finish. The plum flavor lingers and was great with Peking Duck (Here's a perfect match for a chinese duck!). Great bottle! Too bad there was only one of it. pare where did you get the Durbanville? I am a fan of South African wines, or at least I try to get to know them as much as I can....Pinotage, anyone? Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 The teen years are the most critical - that's when they begin to dally with high-alcohol stuff due to peer pressure and the college environment. I wonder how it would be for someone who was weaned to wine at an early age - I mean would they still have that overwhelming curiosity to try more potent stuff in their teens? I don't have any personal experience with this... I think the urge to try stuff is still there - but having sert the standard with wine, only the best would do for her, so that kinda set the limit on consumption to whatever she could afford, which wasn't much. So a drink or two of the good stuff instead a lot of the cheap stuff (which isn't good for you in ANY sense of the word!). Quote Link to comment
masi Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 The teen years are the most critical - that's when they begin to dally with high-alcohol stuff due to peer pressure and the college environment. I wonder how it would be for someone who was weaned to wine at an early age - I mean would they still have that overwhelming curiosity to try more potent stuff in their teens? I don't have any personal experience with this... I agree bods. That's why while I could still could dictate to my daughter what she should be doing and where she should be going, I take every opportunity I can. My daughter could take wine with her food. At this point, she could consume about a third of a wine glass --- I limit her to that. I try to observe how the alcohol affected her. I think she gets to be more behaved. I often tell my wife that I would like my daughter to grow up able to discern good art, good food, good wine and good company, more than I could. Well, I hope I'm off to a good start. Quote Link to comment
agxo3 Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 A trip to a wine region, with the wineries' best wines available for tasting is a great way to introduce someone, young or old to our fave drink! That's how I got started. Last night, we had a 2003 Durbanville Hills (South Africa) Merlot. I'm not a real fan of Merlot, but this one was fantastic! Great fruity boquet, with very storng plum. Well balanced in the palate, with a great finish. The plum flavor lingers and was great with Peking Duck (Here's a perfect match for a chinese duck!). Great bottle! Too bad there was only one of it. The good thing about living in California is proximity to some of the world's best wine regions - Napa, Sonoma, Livermore, Lodi, Santa Barbara/Santa Lucia Valley and Paso Robles. Nothing more than a 3 hour drive away! So aside from that trip to France, my daughter has experienced the wine country many many times. Here, however, they won't pour for anyone under 18. :grr: But since she became legal, she's gone to enjoy the local wineries many a time with me. California is hideously expensive, but it's got its compensations.... Quote Link to comment
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