When did you start enjoying wine?

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I've heard it's something that's supposed to come with age.

I've just turned 24 and can force it down if it's given to me, but I absolutely do not enjoy it.

It's silly, but I like the idea of enjoying a glass of wine!

30

Never. 34 and still don't like it. I don't have a very sophisticated palate though, I find wine too sour/dry. Give me a fruity cider or a piña colada any day.

Have you ever had wine that's not the cheapest supermarket plonk? cheap wine can be disgusting even if you like wine - particularly cheap white wine - can taste like paint stripper and I can't force it down - but I do love wine in general - doesn't even have to be super expensive just a little bit more than the cheapest plonk available to you!

Don't force it. If you don't like it .. try alternatives .. maybe gin or sparkling wine or have a soft drink in a glass of wine instead...

I prefer a sweet drink too!

I eat and enjoy almost all foods, except certain types of fish.

I started to enjoy wine when I moved to a house that involved a long commute to work. Or rather, a long train journey home after a night on the piss. Drinking wine instead of beer means my bladder can just about hold out until I get home.

About 5 minutes ago.

Mid 20s. And yes yes to buying more expensive wine (still only £10 per bottle, but not the cheap £5 bottles on the bottom shelf).

Try different wines. Go to a wine tasting if there are any cheap ones near you, or just go to a wine shop that sells different wines by the glass, with a group of friends and try a load of different things.

And try rose if you like sweet wines. Or something like a dessert wine, or a sweet Austrian late harvest Riesling. Avoid oaky or tannin-heavy wines like Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon.

I was about 30. But I’m fussy about wine, I only drink white or Rose and it’s got to be dry & crisp.

I started enjoying wine when I had a job in hospitality, that meant mixing with people who could afford and expected good/expensive wine. I don't enjoy it enough to drink it when it's not on the company account though.

Well I'm nearly 40 and still waiting for my tastebuds to grow up enough to like coffee, so you might be waiting a while

Soon as the sun passed the yardarm.

When I was about 14 I think.

come back when you’ve tried a New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon blanc 😊

There aren’t really benefits to drinking wine (unless perhaps arguably red) or alcohol in general, so if you don’t enjoy it I wouldn’t persevere with it.

Early 20s.

I'm doing dry January. I miss it so much.

Never. I'm 42.

DS is 28 and at 24 he wouldn't have said he enjoyed wine. His route to enjoying it, and making it his drink of choice, was with food. Always red, not white. Try lots of different reds. No need to pay more than £7 a bottle. Don't be put off if you try one and hate it.

About 30. I used to drink the cheap fruity wine that's like the wine version of an alcopop, then I realised it was too sweet for me so moved onto "proper" wine.

I'm in my 40s and give me a Martini or a vodka any day.

19, in the 90s, that first bottle of black tower...

About an hour ago 😉seriously though, I was never really a wine drinker when I was young. Then I started on white, but will now only drink red. I was around 40 at that point. The "danger" with wine is its seen as more acceptable than downing shots or a load of cans of beer etc. So it can creep up without you realising. My mistake was pouring a glass after a stressful day at work and it escalated.

I do now have it under control again but it took work and a lot of willpower!

When I started drinking wine back in the late 80s, most of it was crap. Thin, acidic & tannic. The French & Spanish, in particular, kept the decent stuff for themselves & sent the rubbish over here for the Brits to drink, because we knew no better.

Things have changed a lot since then, and affordable wine is now perfectly drinkable. One thing that will never change, however, is that red wine is supposed to be enjoyed with food, not on its own. That’s a big part of learning to enjoy it.

I think I started with sweetish rose in my late 20s and moved to drier whites in my 30s. My favourite now is pinot grigio. I love the voga one.

When I started diluting it with lemonade 😂

Late teens / early 20's to start with.

Really got the bug after we did some WSET wine tasting qualifications in our 30's.

Definitely worth spending a bit more to see if that changes your view on wine. And buy from a proper wine shop - Oddbins, Majestic, or better yet an Independent who can guide you so you do get value for money.

See www.bibendum-wine.co.uk/news-stories/articles/wine/uk-wine-duty-explained-vinonomics/AmpBlogPost/ to see just how much different the value of the wine is in a £10 bottle vs. a £5.50 bottle. It might surprise you that there's an almost 12-fold difference - largely down to duty, VAT, the bottle and label and the retailer's margin being largely fixed.

And going to a £20 bottle gets you wine value almost 32-times as much as the £5.50 bottle, but only about 2.7 times as much as a £10 bottle.

Obviously it's diminishing returns after that.