for the lushes trying to drink less wine

[zippitippitoes]

have you tried

only buying wine at more than £10.00 a bottle
keeping the empty bottles where you finished them
not washing the empty glasses
waiting until after 9.00pm to open a bottle
keeping the bottle in the kitchen

can you think of some more?

clean your teeth as soon as you've finished dinner to stop you opening a bottle

Getting pregnant

switching to vodka?

Only buy a couple of bottles each week, if we haven't got any in then I can't drink it!

lushes?? what is this madness is someone here suggesting that you throw out wine at ove 10 a bottle, are you drunk???

Over 10 pounds a bottle? I think I'd lick the drips from down the side of the bottle!

For white wine drinkers you can try adding soda to make a spritzer - makes it a longer drink, and if you really dilute it, it dosn't taste as nice, so you are not in such a hurry to refil your glass!

how about giving up altogether?

wash your mouth out!

La la la, I'm not listening.

What difference does the price of the wine make? We often have wine for more than £10 a bottle, tbh it makes me want more as is usually so yummy

Don't understand this keeping empty bottles where you finished - we put them in the recycling

Don't wash the glasses (cleaner does that)

Usually don't start til 8.30

Kitchen is same as living room so no good

DH's chinese herbalist offered a good one, how about only having one glass of wine each instead of polishing off the whole bottle. Hmmm sounds good in theory.

I can do no wine at all, I just find the one glass thing v hard. Getting pregnant worked but I'm not doing that again. I think the soda thing would work for me actually, I used to drink spritzers and ended up drinking much less. Plus you're getting some water with yer wine so end up less dehydrated.

Yes I used to like spritzers may give them a go again. they are only summery things imo though

Yes, when the weather is like this I just want a nice glass of red ( or 2...)

Become a Lambrini girl only £1.49 a bottle lower in alcohol you can drink a whole bottle and not feel so guilty

[smug] emoticon. DH opened a bottle last night and I turned down a glass . He couldn't believe it.

My weakest time of the day for wine is just before dinner, once I've eaten I'm not too bothered.

at lambrini - this is a serious wine thread

Oh dear if you are having to make lists like this you aer already in trouble!Why not just have a glass of decent wine a couple of times a week It is not like water something you drink as and when

Don't pour yourself a glass

(just drink out of DP/DH's glass -it doesn't count then thats what I used to do when pregnant and fancied the odd slurp!)

yes noddy THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS THREAD!

Durrrrr

£10.00 a bottle was a suggestion for those who have a ahem habit of drinking more than one bottle a week ie if it costs 10.00 then you are likely to drink fewer bottles and actually justifying spending 10.00 on Tuesday night's tipple is a bit more difficult than 2 for 5.99

if you keep the empty bottles lying around it might be a deterrent to adding to the collection (slightly tongue in cheek suggestion admittedly)

anybody recommend any over ten pound bottles

Harder to justify...until you realise that you can buy 3 for the price of 2 in Threshers and it makes it feel so cheap

OH NO Threshers is the pits

They keep their wine so badly and always have shite years of everything

But I'm a proper lush and will drink anything! Actually they do some really really good ones (under a tenner!) which we enjoy drinking (just a little too much...)

perhaps I should start a thread seeking recommendation for quality wine

or would that be contradictory???

used to have threshers next door but one two us !!!But they have closed down

we shall have to agree to disagree on that one then