Your wine preferences & any changes over time?

[shootingstar]

I'm not a wine snot!!

I can only drink 1/2 glass of wine before I start to get light-headed/flushed --so if I really don't like a wine after 1-2 sips, then it's not for me. Every sip counts for me because of my bodily reaction.
I don't drink beer and because of my lower bodily tolerance to alcoholic drinks, I don't want to try different beers.

I used to be embarrassed, even somewhat annoyed by my problem. But at this stage, it's probably a saving grace to me, health-wise. Seems like hereditary trait too since most of my family can't tolerate much alcohol either like me.

[Crankin]

It would be very hard for me not to be able to drink wine. I rarely have more than one glass, and it's become somewhat of a hobby for DH and I (reading about and learning about new wines). I like beer, but I am not so thrilled by mixed drinks. Most of them taste like medicine to me! I will have a good Mojito in the summer, but that's about it.

[shootingstar]

I'm such a baby about mixed drinks. I haven't evolved beyond a brown cow --milk/cream mixed with Kahlula(?).

I just content myself when my partner does some neat stuff --ie. beating in a touch of sweet white wine into whipping crème. It makes an elegant topping for a special dessert! Or creatively pouring in a jot of red wine in his homemade cooked fruit compote of rhubarb, raspberry, blackberry/blueberry that has been cooked with ginger root, honey, etc. His mother (from Germany's wine growing region) knew how to creatively use wine for baking and cooking at times.

[zoom-zoom]

In my 20s my wines of choice were sweet…muscato, sweet rieslings, etc. Now I can't stomach anything that is not DRY. Even medium-dry is too sweet. Just the thought of muscato makes me queasy. I also am a big fan of IPAs -- the hoppier, the better. Used to like wheat beers, but I find most of them to be too bland, nowadays.

[shootingstar]

I am not sure about the rest of the Northwest Pacific areas, but British Columbia does produce 4-5 different blackberry wines. Even the Germans (direct from Germany, not immigrants) I met, found it unusual and good.

It tastes like a light port (not that I drink other ports).