To cringe at DH and FIL being "wine experts"

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They're frigging embarrasing...they're from Souh Australia...where wine is one of the main exports....they sit here...in England...drinking wine in an "experty" way....and smelling it and things.

They're getting over-excited over something right now....I don't know why i annoys me...it ust does!

drink the effing wine ffs! If it's nice...then say so by all means but not with some kind of special ritual and words!

Aaargh! YANBU, my uncle does this and it makes me want to punch his face in I find it annoying!

Oh good! I thought I was a nutcase for caring! It's so ostentatious! I can't find a kind way to tell DH though. I hope he never does it within polite society.

no yanbu. why is it only wine its acceptable to be a cock about?

What if he went on about the subtle nuances every time you had sex? just enjoy it!

Serve them a nice bottle of Lambrini.

Ha! So true SockShitter!

{I enjoyed writing your username far too much}

Err...yeah but no....

I would find it wanky in the extreme, like you....but to each their own and if they're into their wine then I suppose it's fair dos.

I serve no man Viva I may sling a coffee at people in the morning...but I don't do wine!!

Poncy, pretentious, cringeworthy :) I'd just laugh TBH

Go to france for a long weekend, they'll be way out of their depth. :)

Oooh good idea Alpine I may have to suggest that for next visit!

Oh that pisses me off too...and food critics!

Who gives a shiney shite? Just drink the friggin stuff

what are they drinking out of interest??? (i have sat wine exams eons ago!!)

i also dont approve of people spitting out wine!

My ex's family were well in to their wine so of course we had to go to France on buying trips (y to the a to the w to the n). Apparently you are supposed to spit. You're not supposed to be carried out and you're definitely not supposed to have a wee just outside the drive because the owner won't let you stagger to his loo.

So I do know a bit about wine, but I have never done that "thing"!

Oh, please, please decant them some of Ernest and Julio's finest and tell them it's the very special bottle they've been saving, would you?

Lmao

I love a good bottle of wine. Can even manage to tell a few grape varieties apart! But I'd never ever sit swilling it and proclaiming about it's bouquet. They sound like pompous twats.

Do what dragon said and see what happens.

Gah! This annoys me to distraction. We have a friend like this. Its his only fault but sometimes I feel like shouting 'Get on with it man and pour it out before I die of thirst!'

Me and DW drink a lot of wine and as a result we know a fair bit about it in the ordinary sense. Know what styles/regions match certain foods, know about temperature and storage. Heck we even have a wine cellar but it doesnt stay there long as we drink it too quick.

It's not rocket science. We just open it, taste it to make sure its not off and then drink without ceremony. If we like it we order some more.

Its for enjoying not fannying out with.

get them discussing soil types!

SIL FIL and MIL all do that here. Can't you smell the oak barrell, cigar smoke, cow pats, cats wee from it .....drone drone blah blah. YANBU.

Reminds me of the Reeves & Mortimer Food and Drink piss take, where the wine critcs say things taste like poodles' balls and pensioner's hair.

Tiffany, you sat wine exams? How have I missed this opportunity? Oh the studying....and the last minute revision. Cramming sessions? Brilliant.

Somebody suggested serving Lambrini. Hmmmm, we did a wine tasting dinner party a while ago. Got six bottles of wine (all of different cost) and just numbered them one to six. We all had to taste then rank in order of preference followed by order of cost. Brilliant because we were all rubbish. Whilst we almost certainly are crap (though not after I sit my wine exams, thanks), maybe you could do this? Found it to be a great leveller....

Blue Nun imo.

Oh god it's all a load of bollox isn't it. It's f-ing grape juice, get a grip! I like a glass of , but it's pretty much all the same apart from the sodding price. Ok perhaps a bit bubblier / sweeter/ fruiter / drier but seriously, it's just liquid FFS.

disclaimer, I may have partaken in a few too many already this evening.

only did the first one......studied for intermediate then left the job!

i loved it tho,and theres more to it than a few grapes. lots of interesting stuff which i've long since forgotten!!