Re: The alcohol thread

by Fangirl Three Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:04 pm

Once again it's Anticlimax Night, that sad occasion where it's 'gin today' but not 'gin tomorrow' (or the day after).

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:22 pm

by Fangirl Three Mon Nov 30, 2020 12:45 pm

I was at Waitrose at 8am sharp when they opened, to get the Christmas wine.

I got a can of Camden IPA (£2) and a bottle of Petit Chablis for today (£12), a bottle of Meursault for me on Christmas Eve (£36) and a bottle of Montrachet for family Christmas dinner (£59).

That's £109, probably the most I've ever spent on drink in one go.

As a magnificent gesture of excess I also bought a tin of posh sardines for £1.40.

by Guest Mon Nov 30, 2020 2:47 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:

That's £109, probably the most I've ever spent on drink in one go.

I've spent more on that on one bottle.

Gorilla No

by Fangirl Three Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:07 pm

May I ask what it was?

My record single bottle price is £59.

by Guest Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:33 pm

I think it was £110.

Did take me 6 months to drink. It was nice, was it 3/4 times better than the VSOP? Probably not.

by Guest Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:47 pm

Actually, was it a half bottle?

I can't seem to remember now, for some reason…

by Fangirl Three Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:55 pm

Ooh, fine-champagne, as mentioned in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

by Guest Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:19 pm

I don't think I've spent more than £20 on wine, I've tried expensiveish stuff, and didn't like it any more than cheap stuff. dunno

by Fangirl Three Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:45 pm

The Meursault is lovely delicate stuff, but whether it's worth 3x as much as Chablis I'm not sure.

The Montrachet tastes like flowers and gold, like I imagine the drink Gildor Inglorion gave the hobbits must have tasted. Very soon it has me laughing and snapping my fingers at rain and Black Riders. I don't mind forking out half an ~~hour's~~ pay for that experience.

by Guest Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:57 am

Lend us a fiver mate.

by Fangirl Three Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:00 pm

Sorry, that should be half a day's pay.

Anyway, I'm not lending you £5 just so you can blow it on guitars and canary food.

by Fangirl Three Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:41 pm

I've got enough booze in the house to get completely drunk 9 nights in a row.

Viña Sol, Meersault, Montrachet, Bombay Sapphire and two bottles of dry sherry.

by Guest Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:44 pm

by Fangirl Three Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:57 pm

Two bottles of cognac. Class. aristojar

by Fangirl Three Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:00 pm

I got on the sherry at 11am, had smoked salmon sandwiches at 4 and have just finished the 3rd glass of Chablis·

Sometimes I think about just not drinking the 4th and final glass, because I never enjoy it. But that would lead me into a situation where I felt the same about the 3rd glass, and eventually I'd end up not drinking at all.

And then where would I be?

by Fangirl Three Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:33 pm

I've just knocked over my last glass of gin, it's put a cloud on the end of the evening.

However I am now able to confirm that Bombay Sapphire spilt on polished wooden flooroards and wiped up is an effective, if expensive, cleaning agent.

Thank goodness the rest of the litre I bought this morning is safely 15 minutes' walk away in my storage unit. Cos I'll just go to bed now, instead of having more gin, like I would've if I'd brought the whole bottle home.

by Nightjar Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:40 pm

Sorry, Countess, there's no sugar-coating that tragedy. sad yes

by Fangirl Three Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:37 am

I shall have an extra half glass tonight to compensate myself.

That storage unit idea was a stroke of genius though, even if I do say so myself.

by Fangirl Three Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:02 pm

When I haven't had beer for weeks, and then have beer, it's the most delicious thing in the world. It reminds me of having crisps and a sip of my parents' beer in a pub beer garden circa 1978.

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