Your wine preferences & any changes over time?

[shootingstar]

Even though I can't drink much wine for special occasions, I still enjoy it when given..only half a glass or even less.

But am finding that these last few years, my body cannot seem to tolerate sweet white wines --Rieslings, Gwerztainneminar (I should check spelling) which have my preferred types. Have you dropped wine or changed in preferences?

[marni]

like you my preferences have changed from the sweeter white wine to drier ones like pinot grigio. I have also begun to really appreciate a nice full bodied red, especially those with hints of cherries or spices such as Apothic Dark. Ditto my preference for beer has become darker and heavier. My Sag guys theory is that as we get older our taste buds become less able to taste and seek out the darker and tarter and more flavorful, savory tastes.

[OakLeaf]

That's funny ... as I learn more about wine, I'm getting over my prejudices against the sweet whites. No teenage soda pop, but with some foods, particularly spicy dishes, a wine goes better if it's not bone dry.

I think the cheap sweet whites tend to have a lot of propylene glycol and other additives, and maybe that's what you're having trouble with when you say "your body." They always taste really chemically to me, and many give me an instant headache. I do find I have to spend more for a drinkable sweet wine, where you can often get away with a dry red for $10 or less.

[Crankin]

I never drank anything but white until about 10 years ago. It took me awhile, but I developed a nice taste for different reds. Now my favorite wine is a good Malbec. The only reds I don't like are ones that have too much "spicy" in them. It is very rare for me to drink a white now; there is a vineyard in RI, that we go by on one of our rides, that makes a nice white with a hint of grapefruit. I do drink that in the summer.

[TrekDianna]

I am partial to Oregon Pinot Noir and Merlots. I am surrounded by vineyards and wineries. There are two within 2 miles of my house.

[shootingstar]

I am partial to Oregon Pinot Noir and Merlots. I am surrounded by vineyards and wineries. There are two within 2 miles of my house.

Unless one had an allergy or other reasons, it would be hard to completely ignore local stuff in one's own neighbourhood. Like marni, I am tending to prefer drier white wines : I used to find them more "boring".

No I haven't made much attempt to look for wines labelled "organic" --if that's supposed to be complete assurance of no additives/chemicals.

I believe Canadian wines in general, aren't always cheaper than foreign wines...and I'm speaking as a Canadian customer who buys in the home province of where the wine was produced where it would be cheapest, before it is shipped with possible (not always) additional consumer cost/price, and sold in a retail liquor outlet in another Canadian province.

I confess that I do tend buy primarily Canadian wines: I do believe in supporting our local economy, especially when wineries do take a big risk every year with Mother Nature. No honest, I'm not often a buyer of foreign wines. Maybe I'm an unsophisticated oeniphile (I really need a dictionary.)

I like smooth red wines with very little tannins. Any time I see descriptions of "smokey", tobaccoey, etc., makes me want to run for hills.

I love some of our ice wines --the ones that we can afford. Canada's climate provides the conditions for some good ones.

Wine descriptions are often a treat to read.

[Aromig]

I am partial to Oregon Pinot Noir and Merlots. I am surrounded by vineyards and wineries. There are two within 2 miles of my house.

I too am partial to Oregon Pinot Noirs. After a trip last year to Sonoma, I've found that I love Russian River Pinot Noirs too. Add in malbecs, and some tempernillos (always taste a bit harsher, but I do like them) you've hit my go to wines.

In the summer I love proseccos and other sparkling whites (but they can't be too sweet -- moscotos are just too much for me).

This is all recent -- before that I didn't like wine as much.