Wine snobbery

My late father in law used to buy a bottle of Penfolds red wine every Friday night on his way home from work...he lived in Oz at the time....he said it was lovely....just like Vimto he said.
Now I have never found a red wine that I liked(have to admit to not having looked that hard).
I spotted a Penfolds bottle in a wine merchants in Southport....I bought it thinking of what my father in law said about it.

All I can say is....he must have been drinking different Vimto to me....it was ‘orrfible’.....I have never tasted drain cleaner, but that was what I imagined it tasted like.
I think it was Penfolds Bin1....it tasted like Penfolds Bin had
 
wonder if they changed whats in the Penfolds thing since your father in law drank it. i know our tastes change over the years but some stuff we drank as youngsters seem much different if you try it nowadays.
 
Re the 65000 quid bottle of wine, anything is only worth what somebody will pay. If more than 1 person wants something the auction estimate can be exceeded by a long way. However things go in and out of fashion, and there is no guarantee you will get your money back if you come to sell.
 
monkey hanger said:
wonder if they changed whats in the Penfolds thing since your father in law drank it. i know our tastes change over the years but some stuff we drank as youngsters seem much different if you try it nowadays.
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I am pretty sure that all wines vary year on year....it depends on the growing conditions and of course the sun and rain....but my Father in law led me to believe that this Penfolds wine was sweet and luscious.

I did not find it sweet...and it definitely was not luscious....I could not drink red wine if you paid me.
I have been told that I have a very ‘juvenile’ palate....which in layman’s terms means that I should stick to cream soda or Tizer.
Although I did once get legless on a glass (yes...just one glass) of Vinsanto in Santorini(this is technically red, but it is more like Port)...and far stronger than it tastes
 
Well, I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm not a wine snob. This thread is an education, Wines have names? I always thought they just fell into four groups, Red, White, Fizzy and Pinkish!

Though I think Blue Nun should be reported to someone it isn't blue it's white.
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Though I think Blue Nun should be reported to someone it isn't blue it's white.
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Think the "Blue" is more likely in reference to the character of the one who decided to make it (probably had to do years of Hail marys & our fathers as repentance), than an actual descrption of the wine. :)
 
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.
 
Margaret Pilkington said:
Although I did once get legless on a glass (yes...just one glass) of Vinsanto in Santorini(this is technically red, but it is more like Port)...and far stronger than it tastes
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it was more than a glass but it happened to me as an early teen. had some proper alcoholic cyder in the house which i thought was just the normal pop. i,ll leave the rest to your imaginations.
 
DaveinGermany said:
Think the "Blue" is more likely in reference to the character of the one who decided to make it (probably had to do years of Hail marys & our fathers as repentance), than an actual descrption of the wine. :)
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If you say so...

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Mind you I think it could be a habit I would like to get into...​
 
the words,Blue Nun, makes me think of some benny hill type sketch in my mind in one of those chase scenes. high heels, stockings and suspenders and thats just the mother superior.
 
I apologise in advance for being slightly off topic but this thread has had me racking by brain for several days since the mention of 'Blue Nun'. My first reaction when I saw the name but before I read the context was 'that was what my grandfather smoked'. Obviously this was not right and after days of serious head scratching I have come to the conclusion that his pipe tobacco was probably 'Three Nuns'. Can anyone confirm that there used to be a pipe tobacco of this name sold in round screw top tins about three inches in diameter?
 
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I apologise in advance for being slightly off topic but this thread has had me racking by brain for several days since the mention of 'Blue Nun'. My first reaction when I saw the name but before I read the context was 'that was what my grandfather smoked'. Obviously this was not right and after days of serious head scratching I have come to the conclusion that his pipe tobacco was probably 'Three Nuns'. Can anyone confirm that there used to be a pipe tobacco of this name sold in round screw top tins about three inches in diameter?
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im sure there was.
 
Hill Walker said:
I apologise in advance for being slightly off topic but this thread has had me racking by brain for several days since the mention of 'Blue Nun'. My first reaction when I saw the name but before I read the context was 'that was what my grandfather smoked'. Obviously this was not right and after days of serious head scratching I have come to the conclusion that his pipe tobacco was probably 'Three Nuns'. Can anyone confirm that there used to be a pipe tobacco of this name sold in round screw top tins about three inches in diameter.
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Never heard of it!
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It costs a bit more these days.
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Cashman, Less - thank you so much, now I see it the yellowish tin is the familiar one. My brain can now relax, its been like having one of those annoyingly addictive songs or jingles endlessly playing in it. I even spent hours in the garage going through all the tins of nails, nuts, bolts and washers etc that I inherited from my parents shed, lots of memories there but no Three Nuns.
 
wonder if there is a reference somewhere back in the mists of time about three nuns. does seem an odd name for tobacco as well as for a pub between brighouse and mirfield on the A62 that has been there for years.
 
monkey hanger said:
wonder if there is a reference somewhere back in the mists of time about three nuns. does seem an odd name for tobacco as well as for a pub between brighouse and mirfield on the A62 that has been there for years.
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If someone doesn't enlighten you as a result of the above posting call in the pub next time you are near. I've been quite surprised over the years at how many older pubs have a notice (often attached to an old photo) that gives a very brief history of the pub. If such a notice is not obvious ask the landlord. A proper landlord will usually know the pubs history although unfortunately modern business practices have tended to replace proper landlords with managers who tend to know only what the course taught them.
 
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