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Simon Legree Sep 27th 2014 4:58 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 11420373)
Who's eg?

Any wine will do. Do what most Canadians do, which is hand over a very mediocre bottle of wine and then drink my London Pride all night.
I don't mind them cultivating a taste for London Pride at my expense but I do keep my ESB well stashed ! I just got another 24 cans. That has to see me through to the last week of October ! :beer:

Shard Sep 27th 2014 5:03 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Riv - ah yes, forgot about the oz. that explains it.

CT - the Pinot would be my choice, I think, next time I'm in a Canadian liquor store. I tend to drink NZ whites which are about £6-7 on sale in UK.

Shard Sep 27th 2014 5:04 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Simon Legree (Post 11420469)
I don't mind them cultivating a taste for London Pride at my expense but I do keep my ESB well stashed ! I just got another 24 cans. That has to see me through to the last week of October ! :beer:
What do you think of Hobgoblin?

Jingsamichty Sep 27th 2014 5:14 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Simon Legree (Post 11420469)
I don't mind them cultivating a taste for London Pride at my expense but I do keep my ESB well stashed ! I just got another 24 cans. That has to see me through to the last week of October ! :beer:
24 cans to last a month? Is it Lent?

Oink Sep 27th 2014 5:18 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11420472)
What do you think of Hobgoblin?
Its perverted.

Shard Sep 27th 2014 5:28 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Oink (Post 11420481)
Its perverted.
That's what I was afraid of. :rofl:

<He says as he opens the second one...>

caretaker Sep 27th 2014 6:42 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11420470)
CT - the Pinot would be my choice, I think, next time I'm in a Canadian liquor store. I tend to drink NZ whites which are about £6-7 on sale in UK.
I'm not a cork snob or a vqa snob but when some of these vintners are matching little patches of grapes to groups of casks or even individual casks it pays to talk to them. Terroire is everything no matter what the price is and a little research or a phone call can make your choice less hit and miss (been wild about $10 wine from a tiny little place).. I met one of the Wild Goose Kruger sons in Welcome Inn Pub in Gallagher Lake once years ago and he was raving about the chardonnay grapes they were harvesting then so we went up there with the whole family next day, and later that year when it was ready we bought because a good year sells out quick. I recall opening a bottle of that at supper at my friends' house in Van after a trip to Oliver and they seemed certain it was measureably better than a different wine they had paid more for. :p

Simon Legree Sep 27th 2014 6:45 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 11420478)
24 cans to last a month? Is it Lent?
That's all I could get ! I have to supplement it with London Pride and/or Wells IPA. ;)

Jingsamichty Sep 27th 2014 7:06 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Simon Legree (Post 11420532)
That's all I could get ! I have to supplement it with London Pride and/or Wells IPA. ;)
The Pride is good of course, but I always found the Wells IPA to be a bit thin and gassy. Better than having to lower oneself to Boddingtons or Tetleys but only just.

SchnookoLoly Sep 30th 2014 3:09 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
We have been buying this wine up in bulk - Farnese Sangiovese IGT | LCBO

It's incredibly well-priced, and is a really, really nice red wine. $13 for a 1.5L bottle, or $7 for a standard 750mL bottle. This is one of our favourites in the house.

BristolUK Sep 30th 2014 3:23 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by SchnookoLoly (Post 11423491)
We have been buying this wine up in bulk - Farnese Sangiovese IGT | LCBO
I'm always amused by wine tasting descriptors.
leather, cherry, marzipan, tobacco
:blink::blink:

SchnookoLoly Sep 30th 2014 3:23 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Leather, cherry, marzipan, and tobacco.

Well, I know what I'm having for lunch! :eek:

Pulaski Sep 30th 2014 2:19 pm
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 11420419)
If $14.98 of ice cream is too much in exchange for a couple of dinners, you should make up the shortfall in value by stealing their spare toilet rolls or maybe toothpaste or razors when you visit the bathroom.
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11420423)
You people get invited out to dinner?
Only once, I suspect. :unsure:

nldfc Oct 3rd 2014 12:15 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 11420419)
If $14.98 of ice cream is too much in exchange for a couple of dinners, you should make up the shortfall in value by stealing their spare toilet rolls or maybe toothpaste or razors when you visit the bathroom.

:confused: Aren't you supposed to steal that stuff whether you bring wine or not ?

withabix Oct 3rd 2014 1:40 am
Re: Bringing something for a dinner party
 
Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 11420419)
you should make up the shortfall in value by stealing their spare toilet rolls or maybe toothpaste or razors when you visit the bathroom.

....or at least have a decent poo while you are there.


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