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Originally posted by Lews I also mostly stick to whisky...and beer

same, always a good combo.

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow What wine pairs well with Kung Pow Chicken?

Beer.

I drink so much wine it's embarrassing. I was at mt local trader joes, buying about 8 different bottles, as well a litre of bombay safire and the woman on the check out said "oh, having a party eh?".

I had to catch myself form the true reply ("no just a quiet night in"), and go "yeah, having some friends come over".

Love wine, have for years, still like beer and love a good cocktail but wine is the defacto go to.

Need to cut down (especially given how much I'm spending) but have such a passion.

Doesn't help that I moved to California, and we have such incredible wines, and wine culture, not to mention 500 great wineries in Napa are just a 45min plane ride away

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Doesn't help that I moved to California, and we have such incredible wines, and wine culture, not to mention 500 great wineries in Napa are just a 45min plane ride away

I am planning to visit some myself. Probably start with a few days in Paso Robles. Only interested in sparkling wine myself. Only had non sparkling wine a few times and no thanks haha. But sparkling wine/champagne I think is very good

And trader Joes haha was just having a conversation on why anyone would go anywhere but there for groceries! Cheap and really good generic trader Joes brand stuff! Drinking Trader Jose's brand beer as I write

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Dinner at this guy's house last night. Dude fills a sixteen ounce tumbler with ice and I figure he's going to make himself some kind of mixed drink. Nope. Pours nothing but straight gin into the glass right up to the top. Goes through a couple of those over the next few hours.

Doubt he is giving up drinking anything any time soon!

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow What wine pairs well with Kung Pow Chicken?

3 penis wine is actually real. John Lajoie didn't make that shit up.

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Originally posted by Vector A Dinner at this guy's house last night. Dude fills a sixteen ounce tumbler with ice and I figure he's going to make himself some kind of mixed drink. Nope. Pours nothing but straight gin into the glass right up to the top. Goes through a couple of those over the next few hours. Doubt he is giving up drinking anything any time soon!

oof my stomach hurts at the thought

Gin is by far the second worst of all hard liquors, second only to baijiu.

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Originally posted by Vector A Dinner at this guy's house last night. Dude fills a sixteen ounce tumbler with ice and I figure he's going to make himself some kind of mixed drink. Nope. Pours nothing but straight gin into the glass right up to the top. Goes through a couple of those over the next few hours. Doubt he is giving up drinking anything any time soon!

I definitely drink gin on the rocks by itself sometimes, but not a full tumbler of it

It would get far too diluted by the time it takes to go through that.

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Originally posted by Trancelover03591 -- I am planning to visit some myself. Probably start with a few days in Paso Robles. Only interested in sparkling wine myself. Only had non sparkling wine a few times and no thanks haha. But sparkling wine/champagne I think is very good

I love Champagne myself. I'm not too much of a fan of Cava etc, but still like a Cremant.

Paso Robles is fucking fantastic for Reds, especially Cabernet (in fact California arguably makes some of the best there is). I think with time you'll learnt to appreciate the reds and whites etc.

If you like sparkling/champagne, make sure you do Schramsberg - probably the best in the USA. Mumm was OK too but it's a bit of a tourist trap. Still worth a visit though.

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Originally posted by Trancelover03591 And trader Joes haha was just having a conversation on why anyone would go anywhere but there for groceries! Cheap and really good generic trader Joes brand stuff! Drinking Trader Jose's brand beer as I write

TJ's for the win lol. They're fucking brilliant. Good food, best cheese selection by far and way more deli like than the big grocery stores. Only sucks that you can't get the normal household stuff like laundry detergent and washing up liquid there. I'd go no where else.

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Originally posted by Vector A Pours nothing but straight gin into the glass right up to the top.

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I switched from wine to sparkling wine. Not as heavy and no wine hangovers.🍷

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Originally posted by AmberLea I switched from wine to sparkling wine. Not as heavy and no wine hangovers.🍷

Really? Sparkling wine/champagne completely destroys my head the next day.

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