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dotti34 · 07-07-2021, 08:02

This is not quite a Penfold story but it’s a wine one of sorts and I hope it makes at least some of you laugh. A number of years ago when my youngest daughter was still living at home, she filled an empty wine bottle with water and put a lot of red food colouring in it. When my husband got home after having had a few ales with some mates at the end of a hard day’s work, my daughter asked him if he would like a glass of wine with his meal. He declined. Later that evening she said ‘dad, wouldn’t you like a really nice glass of wine to relax with?’ and he said that if it would make her happy then he would have one.

My daughter poured out a glass of the coloured water and gave it to him. We were in the background waiting for his reaction when he took his first drink of it, but (as I have said) he had already enjoyed a few beers and he drank the glass of ‘wine’ without comment. My daughter asked him what he had thought of it. He replied that it was ok but he had thought it was a bit weak….it was then he heard our uncontrollable laughter. Took him a while to live that one down, was definitely not a wine snob and certainly not an expert.

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dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: Wine snobbery This is not quite a Penfold story but it’s a wine one of sorts and I hope it makes at least some of you laugh. A number of years ago when my youngest daughter was still living at home, she filled an empty wine bottle with water and put a lot of red food colouring in it. When my husband got home after having had a few ales with some mates at the end of a hard day’s work, my daughter asked him if he would like a glass of wine with his meal. He declined. Later that evening she said ‘dad, wouldn’t you like a really nice glass of wine to relax with?’ and he said that if it would make her happy then he would have one. My daughter poured out a glass of the coloured water and gave it to him. We were in the background waiting for his reaction when he took his first drink of it, but (as I have said) he had already enjoyed a few beers and he drank the glass of ‘wine’ without comment. My daughter asked him what he had thought of it. He replied that it was ok but he had thought it was a bit weak….it was then he heard our uncontrollable laughter. Took him a while to live that one down, was definitely not a wine snob and certainly not an expert.