ChattyCathy wrote:
> James Silverton wrote:
>
> > My reply to the white with fish, red with meat question should really
> > have been "mostly". I'll follow Italian custom sometimes and drink a
> > local wine of whatever color if I like it tho' the white-white, red-red
> > rule is not a bad start in making a choice, IMHO.
>
> I agree. It's a start. I usually like white wine - but you can't beat a
> good cab. sauv. with a nice piece of beef (tenderloin) steak - it's
> good with ostrich steak too ;)


Wouldn't ostrich go best with eggnog, BIG eggnog!

I don't drink wine with meals, I'm a 2ni with dinner person. I don't
really care for wines with food, any wines... I'm the hard stuff type
with a formal dinner, sipping a 2ni is the best palate cleanser. With
less than formal I much prefer a very standard mixed drink, like a gin
and tonic, a screw driver, a rum and coke, a bloody mary (for
seafood), or beer, and sometimes sangria made with inexpensive box
wine. I truly abhor all the snootiness associated with wine, so much
so that I avoid restaurants noted for their "fine" wine list, they
specialize in wines that mean nothing to me, but their food typically
sucks and the primary reason I go out to eat is to eat... and they
charge for mediocre food like it was "rare" wine (whatever rare wine
is). No bottle of wine on the planet is worth more than $5... it's
just fermented/rotted grape juice, it's stealing to charge even $5 a
bottle... as far as I'm concerned ounce for ounce no grape wine is
worth more than grape jelly. I honestly don't see any reason to drink
alcoholic beverages except for the buzz (by the third drink no one can
taste what they're drinking anyway), and enough wine to get me tipsy
always produces a miserable hang over. I rarely cook with wine, nine
times out of ten insteed of wine I'l pour in a beer. Actually my
favorite beverage with meals is diet black cherry soda... I'd rather a
grape Nehi than any wine.

Sheldon Radar