Why didn't anyone tell me that sherry wine is crap

[JohnKleeb]

:D Yes I was messed up enough today to try some, it was so agh.

[Padraig18]

1. I beg to differ!

Sherry is EXCELLENT!

:)

[JohnKleeb]

2. Isnt it cooking wine?

I had it on its own and I thought it was crap.

[lpbk2713]

4. Was it from an unopened bottle?

It doesn't keep well. I like it. I aquired a taste for Pedro Domecq when I was in Spain.

[Padraig18]

That's cooking sherry.

Regular sherry doesn't have salt in it.
:)

[JohnKleeb]

8. Yes the cooking sherry was crap

[Elidor]

3. God, you're such a…such a KLEEB!

You didn't drink that awful stuff, too, did ya? I was out of beer. It wasn't pretty.

[JohnKleeb]

7. I had a sip on a dare from my brother

It was disgusting.

[Elidor]

9. It starts to grow on you after half a bottle or so

Keep drinking

[JohnKleeb]

11. but I drank it a few hours ago

[baldguy]

13. General Rule: Don't cook with wine you wouldn't drink.

Anything labeled "cooking wine" is not fit for human consumption.

[JohnKleeb]

14. it was good with the meal the old man made

[Blue Diadem]

5. Most wine is crap..

Except for that stuff at the Winery on Put-In-Bay. (Island in Lake Erie). I always get a nasty headache from that crap..yuck.

[tjdee]

6. Don't try port, that's even worse!

Some very cool DUers were telling me about port... but man.

[rodeodance]

10. "sipping the sherry"--in lots of books--its the "poor man's " wine-or

women.

[amazona]

12. oh it is awful isn't it?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so! Even the expensive stuff is crap.

On edit -- Is the expensive stuff port? Yuck. And if you really want to lay out some bucks for nasty, try that icewine (spelling?)

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Xipe Totec]

15. There is more than one sherry

They range from cloyingly sweet to extremely dry. Stick to the Spanish sherries called Jerez. There's crema, fino, amontillado, seco, oloroso etc.

Just remember which ones you don't like so you can avoid them in the future. My wife and I like the fino. The others are either too sweet or too dry for us.

http://www.thewinedoctor.com/spain/hidalgo.shtml

[FizzFuzz]

16. tsk tsk!

I like it. And it's nice for cooking.

I can't understand people who don't like sherry wine (and port, mmmmm!), coffee, or chocolate!! It just is inconceivable!!

[CornField]

17. For future reference...

Add "Maddog 20/20" to that list.