learn to like wine

Every time I have a sip of wine I have to make that “yuck” face because it’s always too bitter. Any suggestions on less-bitter wines that I can try so I can acquire a taste for them?

It takes some getting used to- like beer- wine is an acquired taste… that you will want to taste far too often once you go traveling with a bunch of Irish and become an alco ha ha. :)

I’ve started by watching a couple of documentaries, namely John Cleese’s Wine for the Confused (which I highly recommend!) I’m still trying whites, but will occasionally have some red when I’m out with other people that are paying :)

So…. I’ve learned that a lot of American wine has sulfites in it- and this is, perhaps why I have trouble liking it…
I’m going to look around for an organic wine- without sulfites…and give it a try

Much of my problem is that I don’t have a lot of opportunities to try wine. I’m still only 20, and I’m not “of age”, here in the good old USA- where you’re old enough to die for your country or get married- but you’re just not old enough to drink.
But, I digress… I think I need to make more of an effort to put myself out there, and actually buy and taste wines….

I bought a bottle of Barefoot Shiraz the other day at the grocer, along with a leg of lamb, some carrots, mushrooms, and couscous. The wine actually paired nicely with the lamb…I was surprised.
After a few initial strong sips, I could kind of appreciate the taste. It was fruity, mocha-y, chocolatey, and had kind of a woody aftertaste (which was good for the mushrooms).
But, I still didn’t feel like drinking a glass.
I’ve heard wine is an aquired taste…and many people start drinking it as small children.
They say children have to try things many times before they’ll accept it.
I really want to like wine. It’s fun. It’s interesting. It’s artful. And, it goes well with food…one of my favorite things. :P

it’s a nice change from beer or liquor drinks. Sometimes I just want a smooth glass of wine.

...sweeter wines and moderately sweet wines. Still no good with choke-it-down dry reds. I don’t even want to be good at that. Why is everyone else good at that? Maybe they’re all faking.

I think I started drinking wine when I wanted to feel mature and was too young to drink it but my parents would give me a sip to half a glass of wine to have with them rather than have me go out and binge drink with my friends like many other ppl did at that age.

Because I didn’t really like it but was only drinking it to feel grown up, I sipped it slowly and didn’t get really drunk – much safer than when teenagers drink those pre-mixed spirit + food colouring + tonnes of sugar drinks where you can barely taste the alcohol and get dangerously drunk before you know it, and wind up in hospital getting your stomach pumped. I guess it’s the french way of doing it, only they start them younger on wine.

I like both red and white, just about any kind as long as it’s not too cheap and nasty. With white, if it looks like urine, it almost never tastes good. With red, if it looks like red cordial, it almost never tastes good.

We have some decent wines in Australia now, so it’s affordable to drink wine.

Sometimes my throat just refuses to swallow it. The drier it is, the harder it is.

I like white zin sometimes. There’s a local wine in Missouri that’s not bad either. I buy it sometimes. But as a single person, I have trouble drinking the whole bottle before it changes its flavor. Then I have to leave the bottle in the fridge for months on end just to be SURE it has gone bad. Then I pitch it when I’m finally tired of its deadbeat weight in my fridge.

I will take recommendations for favorite wines, but please don’t be offended if I don’t like yours.