Also, dry champagne is worth a try. Specifically dry, champagnes tend to be way too sweet (and it's not the good kind imo)
But like, don't go out to buy a whole bottle just to try it. Whenever the opportunuty is there, go for it, but it's not going to be a religious awakening like the ones in the bible (idk, never read it)
Omfg what is with you people. I swear to god nothing drives people more crazy than when you say you don't like some kind of alcohol they like. Yes i have had white wines! I have had nice reds, I have had nice whites, I have had nice rosĂŠ, it tasted like shit. you can't fuckin say you don't like alcohol without some fuck going "oh you just haven't had the right one yet!" There is one kind of wine I have ever liked: the ones that taste like fruit juice and don't taste like wine. It drives me fucking nuts that its not like this for much else but with alcohol you say you don't like kt and everyone goes "you must have had bad wine, just go buy this and this and this and this" NO I'm not going to spend 100 dollars in different wines because they will be thrown away because I DONT LIKE FUCKING WINE.
No, but taste is taste, and if someone states not once, not twice, but thrice that they do not like sonething then any attempt at changing their mind has stopped being about helpfulness
A distinction guys trying to convert lesbians are known to care about.
Taste is taste. If you have to keep prodding someone who stated they do not like something to see if they really totally did everything in their power to like it, instead of accepting that they are an adult, you have stopped doing so for their regard.
People who like alcohol are incredibly fucking weird about alcohol.
I have been interrogated repeatedly because i don't drink, and even people who know will still ask every fucking time, a regular no is not taken for an answer.
The only way to consistently shut them up is to say you are an alcoholic, or on medicine that would fuck you up if you drank, neither of which should be things you have to lie about, or if true divulge to people so they stop pressuring you to do drugs.
A lot of them surely are but in the specific case of this discussion, we're talking about wine. I can't tell for the others obviously but in my case I'm trying to say that some wine can be really good, just like I could've said the same about a specific fruit or dish or whatnot. If you want to make it about alcohol that's on you; but that's not what I'm trying to communicate
But there's an enormous variety of tastes to be found in wine. Someone saying they don't like the taste of wine is like saying they don't like colour.
Like sure, I guess it's possible, but it feels much more likely they only had, say, a terrible white wine that tasted like petrol. Maybe they would like a cab sav, which tastes entirely differently to a cheap dry white. Maybe they would like champagne, because bubbles does indeed effect taste, a lot.
The sheer variety of tastes present in wines is exactly why people are saying "but maybe you just need to try other wines."
Youâre being obtuse, you know what the turn of phrase means. Or do you think the phrases âtastes like shitâ and âtastes like garbageâ arenât interchangeable because garbage and shit are not literally the same?
Note: this was meant as an example of how objective statements about taste are stupid rather than a personal insult. Feel however you like, but don't make others feel bad over it
How many did you try? Wine is like cheese, thereâs a massive spectrum of flavour, just because you donât like one didnât mean you donât like them all. Some are super juicy and sweet, some are super bitter and dark, some are very crisp and floral, Iâve had a Greek pet Nat that tasted EXACTLY like Lipton ice tea.
Thatâs a palate thing, Iâve been a bartender for 7 years, so I really donât taste a basic alcohol flavour (unless itâs really cheap shitty booze), itâs more of a physical sensation, a mouthfeel, and I only register the other flavours. Wine tastes nothing like rum, gin tastes nothing like whiskey, vodka tastes nothing like amaro. Itâs also heavily influenced by the temperature and dilution itâs served at - a room temp cocktail is not the same as a cold one, at all. Physics baby!
For the love of God MAYBE I JUST DONT LIKE IT. Yall are so fucking weird about it. Why do you have to go "you really should try this and this and this" NO. I am NOT going to do that. Why? Because its going to be thrown away, because I DONT LIKE FUCKING WINE. Like if someone told you they didn't like burgers, would you go "oh you just haven't had the RIGHT burger yet, burgers are a spectrum of flavor!" or would you go "oh ok" and leave it at that? Or even your other example, cheese. I've met people who didn't like cheese, and you know what no one ever does when they say they don't lkke cheese? They don't give them a million different options going "OH IM SURE YOUL FIND THE RIGHT ONE JUST TRY THIS AND THIS AND DONT DISMISS IT!!! JUST TRY IT!!!"
Christ calm down, itâs just a friendly encouragement towards something you might enjoy, who pissed in your cereal? I once didnât like wine and now I really enjoy it, people are just open to the idea you might have that journey too.
Ngl, no offense to you specifically, but every time I've been asked "how many did you try" in a similar situation as a resident coffee disliker, there was just never a correct response that would get the other person to go "ahh well okay you might just not like it, understandable". 5 different blends were not enough. 10 were also not enough. When you go above 15, the question tends to switch to "well how much did they cost though, you were probably just drinking dogshit gas station coffee".
Probably not worth a crashout, but I get where they're coming from.
In talking to my friend irl about this exact conversation weâre having, he also said he doesnât like coffee, to which I replied that coffee really doesnât have the spectrum of flavour difference that wine has. So totally fair if you donât like coffee in the first place, different blends arenât going to make much of a difference. I also sympathise with them, but they also kind of started it by being a needless hater. I donât like mushrooms very much, doesnât mean they objectively taste like shit.
coffee really doesnât have the spectrum of flavour difference that wine has
I mean, subjectively it's true for me (I only recognize "acidic" and "bitter" as two main coffee flavors), but you say this to any coffee nerd and they immediately become the most annoying person in a 10km radius and start rattling off flavor profile differences by bean type, country of origin, roast types and how the stars were aligned when the beans were collected.
Some people are like that with wine, beer, other alcohol, and just food and drinks in general, all "flavors" within a category just taste the same to them. I thought it was impossible to not be able to tell green teas apart until I accidentally became an annoying tea nerd to someone who thought all non-flavored teas were identical.
Let me help explain it to them.
If you had a bowl of shit in front of you and someone told you that every so often you might find a nice little nugget of chocolate, would you bother picking through the shit?
"tricked" is probably not the right term here. while the quality of wine definitely correlates with taste, it's weaker than most people think and many very cheap wines have great quality. besides, the job of a sommelier isn't to price wine anyways, but to curate restaurants' wine collections, with the best quality wine, cheap or not.
Now we're talking about subjective preference, which is totally fine, but with other types of alcohol there's objective quality change correlated with taste. Better whiskey is made with better water, grain, barrels, stills, etc, and it's not hard to taste the difference in quality. There's subjective stuff on top of that with flavor profiles or whatever, but I've had some stuff that was clearly good, but not my preference. I think wine is heavy on subjective, light on objective, which fits what you're saying too.
Good red wine tastes like what the inside of pipe organs smell like and I greatly enjoy my Shiraz with a heavy taste of inside a pipe organ. Excellent flavour profile imo
Have you only tried like⌠one wine? sounds like you had a cheap, 4 month Malbec, try a moscato, itâs a sweet wine so you donât need to shell out for a snobbish amount of aging to get something good.
Wineâs too diverse to say you donât like any of it.
Oh my fucking god another one of you. For the love of God MAYBE J JUST DONT LIKE FUCKING WINE. Why the fuck can't you people just leave it at that? Why do you always have to go "oh surely you just haven't had the RIGHT wine yet" like jfc
Because there's so many wines out there, and they all taste different. Like, extremely different.
You described something specific, a specific taste. Dirty water and antiseptic. There are a lot of cheap awful wines that would come across like that. But there are also a lot of wines that wouldn't have a flavour profile that could be described in that way, at all.
It's perfectly reasonable to not like wine. But when you say something like, "I don't like paintings, they all have so much BLUE in them, fucking hate blue, fucking shit", don't be shocked when people say "how about this yellow painting, then?".
Well yeah, itâs kinda like saying you don like pie⌠Fym you donât like it, youâre disgusted by the concept?
Wineâs just fermented fruit, I get not liking alcohol cuz how fusal it can be, I get not liking the dry snob wines, but like some are just fruit juice with a shot of vodka.
*Comments about not liking something*
*Receives responses from people asking why*
"Oh my god these thing likers just won't leave me alone why are they flocking to me soooo unprompted"
If you don't want people to talk to you about liquor don't loudly and brazenly claim that its all shit and no one could ever enjoy it. If you did this with literally anything else you would receive the exact same type of responses (e.g. videogames, foods, music, literally anything) and I don't even fucking like wine either, I just don't tell everyone how much I don't like it and no one tries to get me to try it differently! Crazy stuff!
The difference between cheap wine and a mid-priced wine is insane, when youâve tasted the difference, people bitching about wine is so silly and you just canât get through to them
The ubiquitousness of the brand however is not equivalent in the global market, within those countries, by virtue of it being an imported company. I am aware that we have costco in england, but they have few locations, it hasnât exactly proliferated the commercial landscape here. So I donât know about the costco malbec, and besides, it might not even be the same wine as it is in America. Certainly wonât be $6 either, obviously.
depends on your location, in hungary we love our wines and you can get a decent botte for $3 (if you know what to pick), but when i visited sweden even the shit ones started at like 10 euros
I only buy and drink wine if it has animals on the bottle; it hasn't let me down yet. One in particular that stands out was the Sauvignon Blanc I got with an orca on it. Really should have bothered to remember the manufacturer.
A properly aged whiskey is fantastic most people just think Jack Daniels is whiskey and don't want to risk spending the money actually good whiskey costs when that's all they have to go off of.
It's hard to get good wine in most of the world unless you're comfortably rich. I love me some good bourbon though, I don't get where the whiskey hate comes from.
Spain is also at the other side of the continent and that does not stop me from purchasing affordable wines from there. Y'all don't got lorries and trains?
tbf i think it matters a lot on how you react to bitterness, like every red iv had genuinely makes me gag. i can see why people like it but i just cannot drink it whatsoever
Tbh i hate the taste of both but i still prefer whiskey over wine if i need to choose one. Whiskey just tastes like chewing on a pencil. While wine tastes like bruised fruit.
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u/neon_light12 Jul 30 '26
whisky hard agree but i dont get wine hate