Red or white wine tonight?

[MsMiaWallace]

Which should I have?

I am having a small bottle of Frexinet rose in a matching glass (christmas present).

Depends what you’re eating. Having said that, I very rarely have red. Now enjoying a glass of Chardonnay

I'm dieting so please have a large glass of red for me!

I’m having a lovely glass (or two) of Pinot Noir - dry January starts on Monday when I got back to work!

Me. Always

There is a £9.50 Beaujolais from M&S which is delicious, I will open that when kids are in bed

We're having lamb for dinner so definitely red for me tonight.

Looks like red then!

Beer for us, we’re having curry

Might have a bottle of Cremant - my new favourite - DH getting a Chinese takeaway so nice evening planned ..... I work Saturdays so hate having to plan dinner

Cotes de provence Rose all year round 😂

Mix the two and call it rose 😄

I didn’t. I’m not doing dry January though.

I’m going for an Indian. What wine should I take? (It’s not licensed, so I can have nice wine!)

Saturday night in January? Has to be a heady red.

Although it’s beer here ( Asahi) as DH has made a lamb passanda.

I once tried to explain dry January to my elderly French mother-in-law. It literally did not compute, and it wasn’t a linguistic issue.

Sitting with a nice glass of Pinot Grigio as I type.

Depends what you are eating!

I haven't drink in January so far but really in the mood for one tonight so might do

It will be Chardonnay as having Chinese takeaway but would have been Malbec or Rioja with steak

Currently recovering from the flu (finally feeling a bit better since yesterday!) and will he doing dry January as well (well, technically already am but not like I had any opportunity or desire to consume any alcoholic beverages up-to now due to the flu).

Red or white: I'd currently prefer white, I think.

I hate dry January bores so much. Long before it was a ‘thing’ it was my dear boss and mentor’s strategy of choice. He didn’t touch a drop all January despite pickling himself the rest of the year and used it to fool himself, and others, that he was in control and not a barely functioning alcoholic. It didn’t stop the cirrhosis or his premature death. Now I can’t help thinking of him every time someone smugly trumpets that they’re doing it. Why would you feel the need to tell us if it wasn’t a big deal?

Red for me please OP. I’ve had a very nice glass of Malbec with my homemade pizza this evening.

That's admittedly a shitty association.

Why I'm doing it:

The rest of January (well, January - April/June) will be incredibly stressful for me as soon as I'm healthy enough to leave the house.

Drinking alcohol tends to have a moderately negatively impact on my productivity, which I don't want.

I know from experience that citing dry January is easier in these situations than just saying no thank you.

There are just too many people that seem to have had a very hard time accepting that I'm not pregnant, dealing with health issues or an alcoholic (...) when I was in a similar situation in the past. (Dry January, sober October, being on a cleanse, lent etc. seem to be more readily accepted reasons.)

And it's not like drinking less is objectively bad or associated with negative health impacts etc. Dry January seems to be potentially beneficial for moderate to high drinkers without an alcohol use disorder (AFAIK).

It also reminds me that the next months will be tough and stressful but that it is temporary. And that I will have free weekends and evenings again this summer :-)

@MotherOfHouseplants

Probably should have added that.

Winter, so red

@HoppingAndHoping I am absolutely sure that you have excellent reasons but I really didn’t ask, and you might want to consider why you felt the need to give such a long, unsolicited explanation of your personal choices.

I can also understand citing dry January as a quick shorthand when offered a drink in a social situation but no-one is literally offering you a drink here 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fair enough. I suppose I've just gotten so used to it IRL that it's carried over 😅

As it turns out, where we went for dinner with the in-laws they had a beautiful lamb special, and it's basically a human rights violation to not have a small glass of nice red with that, so I did.

Hope you've all had a nice evening, either with or without wine!