Frankly, I despise the taste of alcohol.
People who know me know that I have made a case of beer last a decade.
I’ve tried several varieties of mixed drinks, which usually result in me either making a run for a bucket, or, if i drank them fast enough not to notice the yucky flavor, hospitalization and/or incarceration.
I’m not a happy drunk, and I know it. I’ve done things while drinking that are Just. Not. Right.
I had decided, years ago, that there was hardly any point to me even trying anymore- I hated alcohol and that was that. Oh, now and then someone would dream up some concoction which would involve sickeningly sweet, cough syrup tasting stuff- and ice cream drinks that just tasted bad. I wanna shake, I’ll go to arby’s.
Then someone turns me on to these german wines- Beerenauslese, and Eiswein are the types, and they’re made in a very specific way- they are allowed to hang on the vine until nearly consumed by a special fungi, a process called, I believe, botyrising; the individual grapes are picked lovingly and made into wine. the Eiswein takes it a step further by waiting until the grapes are frozen, then making the wine, and by skimming off the ice so the water content is minimized and the wine takes on a very special flavor.
Apparently the French (and excuse my ignorance, this is all new to me) have a similar process, for a class of wines called sauternes, from the Bordeaux region.
I’ve now tasted both types of wine, and other than some subtle differences in flavor, I can say unequivocally that they taste, to me, like More. The Beerenauslese seem to be a tad bit less expensive, the stuff I’ve become addicted to is around twenty bucks a bottle. The Sauternes, on the other hand, starts around forty.
So after over forty years of an intense dislike for alcohol, I had a great time down at the liquor store, picking out a couple of bottles of wine for Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully Nobody else will like it, and I’ll be forced to consume both bottles myself.
Y’all have a good turkey day.
b.