Red/White/Rose? What nice wine would you recommend?

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Just sipping on a rather nice glass of Pino Grigio white wine. Very nice. Usually a red wine person but could get used to this one.

Heavy reds for me - Shiraz etc. White wine gives me a terrible headache (don't understand it but there you go!)

I'm rather partial to most Merlots.

I've decided I drink and spend far too much on wine so have stopped! It's been 3 weeks now!
(Mind you,not too hard in near teetotal eastern Turkey!!)

JanH - I'm exactly the same. White wine gives me terrible hangovers that's why I tend to drink red most of the time. I can go out and drink red wine all night and I will be fine the next day, white wine just puts me in bed all day and knocks me out for days afterwards.

Pinot grigio! nice

Am sitting here with dw drinking a bottle of freixnet

So it's white for me

tim adams riesling.... gorgeous and hangover free... I only need look at red wine to be in ICU!!

I'm a bit of a New World red girl so any Penfold/Hardy's stuff. Fave at the moment is Wolf Blass Yellow Label - I stock up when Sainsbury's have offers on.

Don't usually have white wines but when I do I quaff Pinot Grigio - must have similar palates.

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Freixenet!! That gives you a head in the morning! Anyone noticed that hangovers become a million times worse the older you grow? Even 2/3 glasses and I feel it the next day (more's the pity!)

Moondog-we are wetting the babies head (bit skint so replaced the Dom P with friexnet )

as for hangovers, freixnet doesn't seem to hit me as much as other sparkling/champagne

doh baby's head

Ahhhhh,that's nice wmf!!
(Aren't you lockets' dh-think I learnt that yesterday?)
Congratulations!

Do they not drink at all there, moondog, or do they have a version of arak/raki/some other vile spirit?

I prefer white to red as red gives me a headache and is too full-bodied - makes me feel too full up and always stains my lips so makes me paranoid I look like a clown - lol
I like Chenin Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, Coldwater Creek, Pinot Grigio and I do like rose wine too. Unfortunately we're on a tight budget at the moment so I go for the £3 mark in Asda - ususally something nice on special offer.

Yes I am moondog

Red is lovely, someone bought me a bottle of Blossom Hill and it was gorgeous!!!! Very bad head the next day

Congratulations Lockets/wheresmyfroggy! For future reference get some strawberries in (O.K not the season at the moment). Any sparkling wine stuff with strawberries in tastes fab - and then you get to scoff wine infused strawberries.

It's not getting older with me it's having had a child - I can drink 3 glasses tops - then I fall asleep - which isn't necessarily a bad thing - have only had one hangover when looking after dd - never again and she is an angel!

Not much janh,more in the east.
Preety hard here to find a restaurant that serves booze unless you want a full-on dining experience alone in an echoey hotel dining room surrounded by 12 white gloved waiters!!!
Not quite the thing when you just want a cold beer to accompany a kebab!
Yes,they sell booze,included raki (shudder) in the shops though).
Quite interesting to have an alcohol free stretch...

Wmf,the complex labyrinth that is MN is slowly making sense...(only then did I realise you were a bloke!) Are you cracking open a second bottle 'cos that will give you a head!

Red wine - Nuit St Georges or a good rioja

White wine - Like ones from New Zealand - Cloudy Bay? vineyard.

Champagne - yum. Some of the Californian ones are excellent too.

Unfortunately, my head starts pounding after 2 glasses these days!

Was it you who stopped drinking for ages and lost loads of weight,Puff?

yeah - weightloss can be so bittersweet! .

I'm gonna have me a bottle of Nuit St Georges when I hit my target weight though and to hell with the consequences!

BTW (she hastily adds) I wasn't a lush, but found that like bread, even a small amount of alcohol has a disproportionate effect in terms of the poundage I gain because of it!

Oh no no no !!
Not suggesting your consumption was 'de trop' m'dear!!!

You're obviously a woman of taste then?

I hate the fact that if I gave up my wine habit I would probably weigh 9 stone again. But in the past when i've given up I usually eat more to compensate!!! I also love Cava

I'm sipping the Pinot Grigio too Sparkler!