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Weird random sudden dislike to favourite wine?

30 replies

NandorTheRelentless · 14/12/2021 22:03

So I have had a favourite wine for a few years now, and all of a sudden the type tastes disgusting to me!!

Not had covid
Not pregnant
No other wine affected
Just the type/ grape (eg cab sav)

DH says its just the same

OP posts:
belimoo · 14/12/2021 22:12

Have you been ill at all? I've had a couple of cold like infections recently and it's really impacting my taste for alcohol. I usually love a drink in December but I just don't feel the same at the moment.

Novasmummy · 14/12/2021 22:16

Are you pregnant? Have you done a covid test?

Novasmummy · 14/12/2021 22:16

Sorry just realised you said that in your op my bad Blush

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MrsFin · 14/12/2021 22:16

You're pregnant! 😀

belimoo · 14/12/2021 22:21

@MrsFin could be but I'm definitely not and I've completely gone off my favourite alcohol due to colds!

3luckystars · 14/12/2021 22:22

Are you 100% sure you are not pregnant?

Original poster
NandorTheRelentless · 14/12/2021 22:24

100% not pregnant
50
Mirena coil

OP posts:
Original poster
NandorTheRelentless · 14/12/2021 22:25

@belimoo

Have you been ill at all? I've had a couple of cold like infections recently and it's really impacting my taste for alcohol. I usually love a drink in December but I just don't feel the same at the moment.
But it's only the one wine/ grape
OP posts:
AngelonTopoftheTree · 14/12/2021 22:28

One of my first indications of covid was when my favourite red wine tasted "off", couldn't quite figure out why but got a positive pcr âž•

MarleneDietrichsSmile · 14/12/2021 22:28

I am 50 and have gone of most wine

I reckon hormones?!

CheddarGorgeous · 14/12/2021 22:29

Is it just a corked bottle or a bad year?

fluffythedragonslayer · 14/12/2021 22:30

Reading the title I thought "pregnant or Covid" 😂

Firesidefox · 14/12/2021 22:35

Covid for sure. So many of my friends have got it right now.

Justcannotbearsed · 14/12/2021 22:39

Menopause

SiobhanSharpe · 14/12/2021 22:40

Is it a particular brand of wine eg Smith's XXX Estate Cab Sauv?
Could be a dodgy bottle /year or could be the winemaker has changed something.
If it's Cab Sauv in general then perhaps your tastes have just changed. Try a Rioja? (Very accessible).

Smallinthesmoke · 14/12/2021 22:41

When I had this it was covid.
Poured several bottles of wine down the sink before I realised Shock

NotVictorianHonestly · 14/12/2021 22:43

This happened to me. Turned out I was pregnant. Didn't realise until well into the second trimester that I was pregnant as totally unexpected and was on contraception with no symptoms except dislike of wine.

TanteRose · 14/12/2021 22:48

You’re 50
It’s perimeno
I can hardly drink any alcohol any more Sad

ScheisseMinelli · 14/12/2021 22:48

Take a pregnancy test - this happened to me when I was pregnant

Lindy2 · 14/12/2021 22:50

I think you need to go and get a Covid test.

You have a sudden change to your sense of taste. That means you need to book a PCR test.

gogohm · 14/12/2021 22:51

I went off several favourite things when I caught covid. Loss of taste was my only symptom

JustGotToKeepOnKeepingOn · 14/12/2021 22:52

Menopause. It sucks the joy out of drinking!

hivemindneeded · 15/12/2021 08:24

When I turned forty all red wine suddenly tasted revolting to me. Like poison. About twelve years later at a Christmas dinner in a restaurant DH and another man ordered a bottle of very good red, I tasted it and it tasted fine. Since then I've been able to drink it. All the sips I had, even of very good wine, between those two dates tasted like rusty old water with a trace of weedkiller in it. Very odd.

Ime, nothing makes champagne taste bad, if that helps. Grin

WineAway · 15/12/2021 08:26

Menopause…alcohol tastes to me the way it did when I sneaked a taste when I was 8. Revolting.

Mrsjayy · 15/12/2021 08:33

Oh this happened to me with Vodka even the smell knocks me I loved vodka😟 hopefully it doesn't happen with wine, I'm also 50 maybe it's an age thing !