to not want to drink someone else cheap crappy wine at a party

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when I brought a bottle of semi decent stuff?

Party Saturday night. I only really drink wine, and arent amazingly fussy about brand but prefer something not too cheap. Got a good deal in Morrisons and got a bottle half price at £5 to take with me.

Normally I dont mind all bottles going in the fridge and having whatever is open - but the only other wine drinkers had brought this vinegar wine that was 2 bottles for £5 or something that tasted hideous.

I decided to stick to my own bottle - but the person who brought the cheap crappy stuff then had a glass of mine. No problem, but she downed it in one and then wanted another. I stopped her, joking she could drink her own cheap stuff if she was to drink like a fish.

Cue a couple of the girls getting really funny, taking the piss out of me and then hiding the bottle of wine I'd brought upstairs (which another friend found so we finished it anyway)

so was IBU to not want friend to down my decentish bottle and leave me with crappy stuff?!

well I take objection to the idea that an expensive bottle of wine is a decent wine...........because it's not - I've drunk some absolute SHITE "nice wines" (supposedly nice because of the price tag).....and conversely found some nice cheaper ones as well.

I don't think YABU! If someone's going to down wine to get lagged, they should darn well drink their own gaky Blossom Hill. It's a bit of a cheek for her to ask you for more!

What kind of a person downs wine?

I'd take a so-so bottle to the kind of party where there are people chugging vino.

FWIW, DH has been known to take his beers back home if they are't drunk. Really winds me up.

To quote Noel Coward: 'How different from the home life of our own dear queen.'

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< is glad >

PMSL at Morloth.

Also glad I no longer go to parties where the £5 bottle of wine is the good one (nothing against £5 wine, you understand, I drink too much plenty of it, including at parties, but anything cheaper than that is for cooking IMHO)

ach you snobs - stop looking at the blardy labels - you don't have to buy crappy blossom hill or other vinegar wines if you're paying under £5.

A price tag does not define the quality of the wine (so spoke my old vicar who used to spend his holidays travelling around the world wine tasting and order cases of the stuff to store in his "vicarage" (a flat) in readiness for his full on 3 course meals he did on Sunday's after church.

That man knew his wines - and he didn't just look at the price tag

Are you serious smoking! YABVVVVU, I am

I think that once someone has downed a glass of wine in one, you're entitled to consider that good manners are off the table.

But I wouldn't have said what you did, still. I don't know, it's a tricky one. Usually I bring something half decent but nothing to get precious about, but then so does everyone else. If I'm facing the choice of hanging onto my wine or drinking something revolting, I think I'd mind too!

how old is the OP?

gawd!

Is blossom hill a cheap and nasty wine?! I quite like their zinfandel.

You didn't really hide the bottle surely?

YANBU to want to drink decent wine. YABU to be rude at a party.

Is this for real?

YABU even though the girl how downed the wine was a cheeky cow.

If I go to a party where I know the drinks will be crappy not to my taste I check the host has got plenty of mixers in and take a bottle of absolut - takes people a lot longer to get through your vodka than it does one bottle of wine .

Gibbon, I didnt hide the wine. The other girls did.

Stealth, I tend to buy the wines on offer - I know the kind of wine I like, but its normally a bit out of my budget, so I wait for the offers

tortoise, I think that was where the problem started, with them downing the drink. I like to drink as I enjoy the drink - not to get pissed. And I did find it very bad manners to treat any bottle like that - and I guess I spoke in reaction to that.

Did you spend the whole time holding on to the bottle of wine you brought?!! I would never expect to drink the bottle I took, would just take it to contribute. I think it's a bit rude to expect to drink your own. Was it a teenage party?!

the other guests showed bad manners but so did you by saying something.