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Red wine hot chocolate. I just heard about this beverage today. Have you tried it? It sounds completely disgusting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/di...

Wow, that sounds unusual

Red wine and Coca-Cola in Spain got all the teenagers messy drunk.

I'd like to splurge on a wine at around $30 a bottle. Any suggestions?

Scout wrote: "I'd like to splurge on a wine at around $30 a bottle. Any suggestions?"

Any preferences in type of vino?
i.e dry, dessert, full bodies (like a red burgundy), sweet-delicate (like an ice-wine), etc?

Where you are and what is available is also a consideration.

Then again if you have a Trader Joe's there 'cheap' wines like three buck chuck (or two buck chuck if you've been buying them long enough) are hard to beat for something just drinkable.

For around $25 there are several 2014 Pouilly Fuisse that are very good. You can spend a lot more on a good P-F but unless it has been perfectly handled it is not worth it.

Check www.winemag.com for a good starting point for pricing.

But red, white, domestic, imported, sweet, dry, fruity, and so on will determine ultimately what to drink.

I'm a Bordeaux drinker. I will drink a good early white burgundy on occasion and one or two other blancs, but usually I like the very full bodied complex wines.

Just drinking vs drinking with a food pairing should also influence the choice.

Thanks for the suggestions. I had a Pouilly Fuisse once years ago that I still remember fondly. I'll try the 2014.

A question for a wine lover: when people go to these wine tastings and say that they taste chocolate, vanilla, cherry, blackberry, and leather, are those really ingredients in the wine?

I'd never had almond milk before, and I was curious, so I bought Almond Breeze vanilla flavor. It's good, as a by itself beverage. I wouldn't use it in combination with anything, like to flavor coffee, or on cereal. But I won't buy almond milk again because it's so bad for the environment.

Why bad for the environment?

Driftwood wrote: "Why bad for the environment?"

Almonds are technically, like rice, a monsoon crop. Lots of rain water needed to grow them. I mean LOTS of water. In the US they are only grown in a desert! Thus the irrigation to produce them requires diverting water from other areas where it would naturally do more good.

Almond 'milk' is water 'dirtied up' by a few pulverized pieces of almonds and sold at an incredible premium. Cartons of commercially produce Almond milk analyzed range from O.K. we can detect almonds in the product to maybe at best at best the equivalent of a dozen almonds. If it is made 'correctly' a serving might double that quantity.

Eat the almonds. Don't worry about someone using lots of water to make the stuff, create a carton and advertising. They're good for you so . . .


Just. Eat. The. Damn. Nuts(seeds).

Good clean Water continues to be the best beverage.

Followed in no particular order by coffee, Islay scotch whisky, and this time of year Russian Tea.

They should just call it almond sugar water.

I also wonder about the packaging it comes in (the same boxed liquid packaging that so much broth and soup comes in). I don't know if it's recyclable, or rather, probably it is if you tear it apart and recycle everything separately, but our neighborhood recycling company doesn't take those boxes, whereas they do take plastic milk containers.

Actually I think it would be good in hot tea. I think I'll try that.

I'm drinking hint water infused with watermelon.



It's okay. I wouldn't necessarily buy it again, unless I had limited options. The watermelon taste is extremely subtle.

When it comes to beer, do you go for imported or domestic?

Scout wrote: "When it comes to beer, do you go for imported or domestic?"

Local. Lots of area brewers.

Like whisky, I prefer heavier beer.

Whatever tastes good and will not break the bank. I don't care what country it came from. There are so many good domestic beers, obviously there has been a renaissance in American small batch beer production, microbrews and what not.

OK I resorted to Corona this afternoon.

Offer me a Corona and slice of lime on a hot day, and I'm happy.

When did beer get so expensive. It's almost impossible to find a good sixpack for less than $10-11.

Also why do people like cans. I hate cans for beer.

Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee! Mmmmmm good!

Splurged on the purchase of a half pound. Careful use of the Chemex maker should produce a few dozen cups.

I'm trying Rice Dream Rice Nog. Delicious.

Lobstergirl wrote: "I'm trying Rice Dream Rice Nog. Delicious."

Update: mind changed. I hate this stuff.

Dark Matter Coffee espresso shot is fantastic.

Hot chocolate tonight. Temp dropped another 10 degrees (F). Perfect night for cocoa.

Perrier watermelon flavor. Really good.

Sipping on a cheap Shiraz.

Dunkin Donuts coffee.

Scotch and soda.

It's Friday.

Yay for Friday!

Evolution Green Juice: yuck. Would not buy again.

ORGANIC CELERY JUICE, ORGANIC CUCUMBER JUICE, ORGANIC SPINACH JUICE, ORGANIC ROMAINE LETTUCE JUICE, ORGANIC KALE JUICE, ORGANIC LIME JUICE, ORGANIC PARSLEY JUICE.

Chianti

Blood Orange Diet Coke.

Strawberry smoothie.

Espresso ground Peruvian coffee!

Dos Equis draft

we're a thirsty lot

Naked strawberry and banana smoothie.

Sparkling water.

I enjoyed two glasses of champagne with a hamburger. Several days ago.

A glass of 2016 chardonnay.

I don't recommend Trackers Crossing 2017 Shiraz. Notes of sour blackberry and manila envelope.

Flavored tequila margaritas! I have been stuck on them lately. Went out to eat yesterday with my brother and had two lime margaritas and two strawberry. They were really good!

Kirin Megumi beer is my current beverage. It's low carb, 99.9 % sugar free with only 129 calories per 330ml bottle.

I'm having grapefruit juice with sparkling water.

This is drinkable. At $4.49/can it seems steep, though. And that was on sale from $4.99. Even the Target clerk, as she scanned it, said, "You know this is $4.49, right?" I laughed.

My first time ever drinking canned wine !

Hated this California red blend "Crucible Incantation"

A very drinkable rose. Cheap, often on sale at Whole Foods.

Dang! Butterscotch Root Beer. This is tasty if you like root beer and butterscotch.

Not a fan, will not buy again.