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PollA poll about Wines
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Makes ME want to drink wine right about now, but I like whites more than reds and I don’t have any bottles at the moment.
Like my tea, I like fruity whites. They can be earthy and dry too, but I tend to like them more on the sweet side.
I don't know that much about wines and haven't tried a wide variety of them. I have had some red and white wines, as well as some rose type wines.
For red wine, I've liked Beaujolais. For white wine, I've liked Chardonnay and champagne. I like sangria too. Generally I like wine that's more on the fruity side, although I will drink some wine that I don't consider "juice wine" i.e. the sweetest wines where it basically tastes like juice with the barest tinge of alcohol.
I lean slightly towards the Beaujolais because I've had it more times than the Chardonnay, but overall I wouldn't say I have a clear preference between red and white wine.
I’ll have to see if I can find a Beaujolais to try as that’s a new one to me.
In Italy, certain regions have speciality wines made from fig, black currant, and plums, and I wonder if that’s what you mean? I’d love to try those
by juice wine, I don't really mean specialty wines, just any wines that are very sweet/fruity and don't have a strong dry or alcohol taste to them. Beaujolais seems a little hard to find where I am. A number of stores near me don't carry any Beaujolais, even if I look in the French wine section. I've only found it at some places that have a wider selection.
I did have a fruit-based wine from a winery in my state (in the US) and it had a unique flavor that was strongly of the fruit it was made of. I think it was blackberry? and I think they had other wines based on other fruits, but I didn't try those. I won't publicly mention the name of the winery here for privacy reasons, but you can PM me if you want to know. I'm not sure if you can buy it outside of the winery's local area though, I don't think it's widely distributed.
Oh I see. If you find you can’t get your hands on Beaujolais, it’ll probably be hard for me too, but it’s worth a shot since now I’m curious.
Blackberry wine sounds delicious if that’s the fruit it was! I want to try Mulberry wine as well, it’s similar to blackberry.
I’ll send you a PM since I’m in the US as well.
I don't know if it'll be super hard or impossible to find, just that you might have to go looking around for it. I'm not that familiar with the wine retail industry, so I don't know if it's typical that Beaujolais is somewhat uncommon or not popular. I haven't seen anyone else mention it here, so maybe it is a less popular wine in the US?
if you have a big wine store like Total Wine nearby, it has a much larger selection than other stores would.
I have wine stores that are similar to Total Wine that may have it! I’ll have to go on a little adventure