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!

Good wine as opposed to plonk? 36. I drink less but better

Late 20's when I could finally afford to buy decent wine and not the paint stripper and vinegar I had previously been given.
Start with Merlot for soft reds or Pinot Grigio for whites, they are both easy drinkers.

Try a nice New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. If you don't like it. Try again when you're 30

I don't think I liked wine until my early 30s really. I started on red, and never really liked white, until the NZ...ooh the NZ 😍

Never I am 50 and it still tastes like vinegar to me. Tried red to white and cheap to very expensive and they all taste horrible. I kept waiting for that moment when it would suddenly taste great but it’s never happened! I would rather have a brew thanks

Brought up the French way. Can't remember not liking it, been having it with dinner for as long as I can remember.

Early to mid 20s for white, late 20s/early 30s for rose and mid to late 30s for red.

I enjoy a glass of red with a steak dinner and rose if just having a glass of wine to be sociable.

I used to be a Morgan's drinker but now choose a pink gin with lemonade for the sweetness.

I was about 65 before I could enjoy a glass of rose and it has to be mixed with lemonade. I look at a glass of red wine and immediately get a headache. Definitely a beer/cocktail person not a wine person!

On a trip to France in my late teens. Touring vineyards and tasting.

Early 20s

Never. Tis the Devil’s work

At 24 when I started dating my now husband. He has good taste in general and actually knew about wines. We can have quite different taste in wine now and I don't subscribe to the snobbery which surrounds it so don't care if a bottle is uber expensive; if it's not to my taste it's not to my taste.

Mid 30s I think. Before then I didn't mind a tiny glass of sweetish dessert white and found every other type too dry, but now I like to try all sorts, dry or medium. Only white though as I find red too heavy and it always stains my mouth like the Joker! I have had a white wine advent calendar the past few years and really enjoyed sampling different ones. Not keen on rose though, it has an odd aftertaste to me.

Never, I'm 44. Gets me drunk too quickly and close to being sick even after half a glass. I don't have an alcohol digesting gene so I don't think that will ever change. But I get all the health benefits of a teetotal lifestyle without any effort.

I've always liked wine. I used to take sneaky sips of my mum's wine (when she wasn't looking) as a kid.

Around 18-19. I grew up in Germany and German wine is good and not too expensive, especially when you live in a wine region or - like my PIL - get wine delivered twice a year.

What is sold here as German wine is absolutely awful unless you can afford £15-20 for a bottle.

I prefer dry. I love English white but it's really expensive so it's reserved for things like my birthday or Christmas.

Early 30s for me. I started with white and rose. Then started to drink red in my 40s.

I was a snake bite and whisky drinker. Wasnt until I lived with an older female who at the time i thought was ancient. But in truth she was around 29. She drank red wine and got us into that. I find wine like a mince pie...you enjoy it as you get older

Late 20s we used to drink red wine before going out.
About 40 I started liking white wine
Going back to enjoying red wine now

I'm 44 & have never liked it. Much prefer non-alcoholic stuff, though don't mind the odd gin with lemonade or the odd cocktail.
Honestly, I don't see the need or appeal - I'm not anti-alcohol (though my father was an alcoholic) but I just don't see the attraction, only been tipsy/drunk a couple of times in my life & hated it.

I'm nearly 50 and still waiting for my so called sophisticated taste to arrive. Wine, prosecco etc are rank and I'd far rather have a diet coke or J2O.

It was like a switch was flicked. I've never been one to drink something I dislike, not even when feeling socially obligated. But one day in my mid-late 20s I had the urge for a glass of wine and the thought kept coming back until, next time the opportunity arose, I had a glass. Coffee was the same.

28! I went to a wine tasting 101 event with friends and was entirely sceptical but they taught us how to pair it with different foods (mainly cheeses yum!) and how to drink it in a way to release the flavours and I got hooked. I always just drink wine with food though. I wouldn’t drink it on its own but paired with a nice cheese or steak or scallops, wine can be an absolute joy 🍷 cheers!

Oh I think that's my favourite white wine too (apart from champagne or cava).

OP, I remember quickly pouring some wine into a pot plant at a friend's 18th birthday party when everyone had left the room because i didn't want to tell the host's parents I wasn't sophisticated enough to like it. 😂I can remember it, it was not quite the right temperature and a bit too sweet.

But gradually, as my parents liked wine, I tried various wines usually at a meal out in a restaurant with them, and let my dad teach me a bit about different wines. And discovered I liked the way different wine enhanced the flavour of the food, and vice versa. eg a nice chablis with fish, or something dry to cut through a creamy sauce, for example. And a lovely warm mellow red with steak. As I got older into my 40s I paid extra at special occasion meals for a wine flight and let the sommelier educate me about what goes well with certain food.

Basically I prefer it with food, I wouldn't go to a pub and have wine on its own. But it's GOT to be at the right temperature.

DS, 20, has started to become interested too after not drinking ANY alcohol at all all the way through 6th form and his first term at uni. He's read all about wine online and ordered all our Christmas wine for us, to accompany different styles of food.

I've surprised myself recently by discovering through restaurant wine flights/pairings that I actually really like a good dessert wine with a dessert. For years I've pulled a face at how the last bit of dry white tastes if I've reached dessert and not finished the bottle. Dessert wine was a revelation. It has its place, most definitely!

Reading back, I guess it's definitely all about the food for me.

Then we went to Bordeaux a couple of years ago and did a food tour, which included a quick tasting in a wine shop, and found it interesting to hear about how they produce wine in that region. She poured us some very different wines to see how they differ in colour and flavour etc., talked about how organic and biodynamic differs from normal wine etc etc.

So I guess betwen pouring the wine into the pot plant at 18 and now it's just been a gradual learning experience really. I'd always recommend if you're in a posh restaurant where they have properly trained staff that you ask the staff to recommend a glass of something based on what yu're having to eat. And keep an open mind. And sip it, and savour it in beween mouthfuls of food.

About 17. I’ve never had a sweet tooth, however.

Have never liked wine, and I'm now 52!