Your wine preferences & any changes over time?

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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.

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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.

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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).