I think it'll be launched in Canada at some point, apparently it's actually a popular product! Apparently launched in the UK earlier this year so just trying to see where I can get some to try. I know I could technically pour a can of coke into a glass but... it's allllll about the ratios

Then you find there's not a hope in hell of getting the wine in Canada or you can but a few provinces away.

Christmas lunch wine will be:

Chasselas – Pinot Blanc – Pinot Gris | Quail's Gate

Completely wrong pairing if you are a wine snob (particularly as we are having cow), but it's very nice.

Is wine like beer and one needs to acquire a taste for it?

I can't recall brands, but all the wines I have tasted over the years have all tasted more or less the same, and just tastes like rotten grape juice, which I suppose it kind sorta what it is.

What is the appeal to wine? Do some actually taste good?

Completely wrong pairing if you are a wine snob (particularly as we are having cow), but it's very nice.[/QUOTE]
I've known some people who like white wine but not red, and so pair it with everything - naturally you should drink what you like! Nothing is written in stone, not even that reds shouldn't be chilled. Sometimes keeping a bottle of red in the fridge can emphasise the flavours. I can't see a white or rose being very good at room temp but reds are often good either way.

So not zesty fish taco with avocado and buttermilk dressing then.
I'm amazed at some of the pairings suggested sometimes.

Presumably there are some beers you like and some you don't? Same with wine. Just as there's a huge difference in the "warm" beer we Brits drink and lager, it's the same with wine.

Just as I didn't like an ale or bitter at 15, I was okay with lager - especially with a dash of lime - and then developed a preference for a nice pint of sheepdip or Owd Roger or something a few years later my wine experiences started with a Spanish Sauternes (sweet) and then Liebfraumilch before moving on to more dry whites and reds.

The food makes a huge difference. Or having food.

I've sipped many wines thinking 'lovely' and then yuk! when sipping after beginning my meal.

I once tried a chilled red. The then girlfriend mistakenly chilled it having seen me chill white
It was horrible. Red wine is too expensive to experiment by chilling.

My tastes seem to be changing as my usual reds are only going with cheese now and not the main meal. But even an old reliable Chardonnay doesn't seem to work for me anymore.

But at least I discovered Rosé works very well with a Thai Red Curry.

Yeah I've found my tastes migrating towards ales the older I get, I always wrote it off until earlier this year and bam! Couldn't believe what I'd been missing!

As for chilling red wine... I wouldn't really do it either. Some producers/suppliers/retailers actually recommend chilling some reds though, so that's the only time I'd think of doing it. I picked up this bottle of Louis Latour Pinot Noir from the LCBO during the summer and it was recommended to lightly chill it. Was quite nice

My tastes seem to be changing [/QUOTE]
If you were putting fruit in your beer that's a good thing!

Harp Lager. If the only lager available in the pub I was in was Harp, I couldn't drink it without the dash of lime. Most others were fine without it but then lager and black(currant) was rather nice.

I had a friend who couldn't take the sight of blood. He threw up after drinking lager and black once and fainted thinking he'd vomited blood.

We used to mix Labatt's Velvet Cream Stout and Labatt's 50 Ale and warm it up on the edge of the wood stove - very filling (we called it black and tan).
In Old Mexico they'd take a piece of lime or lemon and wring it around the rim of a can or neck of a bottle to keep wasps out; yuppie tourists picked up on it and started plopping chunks into their beer. Another affectation from there is the clear Corona bottle with the painted label. Forty years ago those were only distributed in Yucatan because the glue that regular labels used didn't hold in the jungle humidity. The yups liked that bottle so export Corona comes in those even though it would travel better in coloured glass. Back then Corona was the cheapest beer you could buy in Mexico and trucks would deliver it to your door just like water. Officialy the good old days.

I like lager.

I seem to recall a rather nice red from Henry Pelham(?) (Ontario). And QC Ice wine

I used to be a big wine snob, & moving here was a disaster on that front until I discovered South American plonk !

I like Fuller's ESB. Real beer !

Haven't tried any Canadian wine yet, grew with up with beer and was not a big wine fan but developed a taste for it and like south american and south african wines. I don't mind a white but more of a red wine person.

What did you grow larger with ?