I’m not much of a drinker.
I like Boone’s Farm.
I think the two statments above are related somehow.
OMG…all the mothers in my neighborhood used to buy that by the gallon jug and sit around each other’s kitchens in the afternoons getting bombed on that stuff! Then they would make terrariums out of the jugs! I was allowed to taste it, it tasted like Hawaiian Punch to me.
My brothers were always drinking Mad Dog and Ripple…vile tasting stuff, and I never went in for it. When I was a partying teenager we drank a lot of Boones Farm and Annie Green Spring, and I still like it. I also like wine coolers over beer. (Bartles and James Blue Hawaiian was my most recent new flavor, yum!) I never got too drunk on the cheap wine, but drinking beer always got me lip dancing/technicolor yawning drunk.
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Hiney! I haven’t seen them around in eons!
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As to the actual topic: the only one I’ve sipped has been the Boone’s Farm ‘wines’. I generally can’t make myself drink more than a few swallows though, it just isn’t a taste I care for.
Howeever, it’s rather fun to serve some to someone who doesn’t know what they’ve been served (beyond that it’s some kind of alcoholic drink) and see what their reaction is. It tends to be :dubious:.
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Not that it exactly falls into the Bum Wine category, but when it comes to some cheap ass hangover wines I do love me some Lambrusco. Light, sweet, bubbly and deadly. Carlos Rossi couldn’t even come up with something as tasty and as poisonous as Lambrusco.
I have to agree. I’ve drank Boone’s Farm, MD and Wild Irish Rose, but the worst was a good, old-fashioned tear on Cisco, the crack of cheap wines.
Almost immediately I’d be drunk, obnoxious and hyperactive. Even more than when drunk on other things. Heck, the only blackouts I’ve ever experienced were the result of a bottle of Cisco.
Hmm, wonder if I can find some around here?
They Might Be Giants have a wonderful song in honor of Thunderbird. It should be on every iPod on the planet.
“I remember now/ why they called it Thunderbird…”
And I thought I’d find a description of a drink the City of New York has made from the vagrants it takes off the streets.
Or maybe wine that rummages through dumpsters and asks people for quarters.
Soylent Grape is made from PEOPLE!
I myself was thinking of wine that had been around too long and gone “bad”, like a “bum foot”.
Speaking of which, I can’t wait for Beaujolais Nouveau to come out: I had my first last Thanksgiving and won’t go back to any other wine (even though some might consider it to be one step above “Bum Wine”: as for myself, no oenophile, I plan on actually mixing it with about %25 Concord Wine :o (the best of the actual bum wines, so it can have a bum wine pedigree and a concord flavor to it)
Retsina, A Greek wine flavoured with wood resin.
Try it, I dare you
I drank quite a few bottles of MD 20/20 and Boone’s Farm in my day. My roommate freshman year in College used to make a drink whose recipes was the following. 1/3 of a drink cup of MD 20/20 any flavor but usually banana red, a 2 shots of cheap vodka, and top off with Mountain Dew. It was tasty at the time but left me with a hangover of almost epic proportions at a time when I usually didn’t get hangovers. Boone’s Farm was considered a girly drink but we would always drink it at 2:00 in the morning when we were out of everything else or when we were broke and wanted to get messed up for a few bucks.
I like retsina. I have a bottle of it in the fridge right now that I have been consuming. My wife thinks that it is disgusting, but I’m kind of fond of it.
Ah, yes.
“Oh, bartender? I’ll have a nice green wine from Soylent Vineyards …”
I actually have. Tried it that is. One sip is my lifetime limit. :: shudder ::
Huh. Odd. I love drambuie and am a lightweight but don’t get hit any worse by it than I do by liquors with harder reputations like rum, vodka, or tequila but, then, the drink that hit me the worst (if you ignore the night I wound up in the hospital following an entire fifth of rum, which I try to) was a bottle of chianti from about a year ago. It had me in bed the entire day afterward with my first and only hangover.
A couple of army buddies of mine would each buy a bottle of MD 20/20 to take to Austin (I was driving). When we got there they would break out the straws. Before we went into the clubs they would stick about three straws into the bottle and suck it down as fast as they could. That way they didn’t have to buy an drinks in the club.
I have. I really like it.
Hah… lightweight.
Let me tell you, after an afternoon at a friend’s house eating spit-roasted lamb, dolmas, spanakopita, pasticcio(?), beer, baklava, and what seemed like a couple dozen shots of ouzo and metaxa with your friend’s Greek dad, a glass of retsina seemed like a welcome respite. (not particularly an ouzo or metaxa fan!)
Honestly!
Bleach. Never cared for any of the bum wines. I have had Cisco in quantity though, when I was a desperate teenager. I think the reason you go so crazy on it is the high sugar content - it makes you into a very drunk adult crossed with a four year old on a sugar high.
It’s flavored with pine resin, specifically. Good retsinas are all right. Bad ones are reminscent of Pine-Sol.
I nominate Canei White for the worst wine I’ve ever had. They should rename it Eau de Rotten Olives. I’d take Boone’s Farm, Ripple and Catawba wines, as awful as they are, over Canei anytime.