What wine tastes like Kool-Aid?

Katy, If you are "getting in on the ground floor" with regards to wine, there are a few options. Sutter Home White Zinfandel is fairly simple and lightly sweet with a bit of tartness and no aftertaste. Mogen David Concord wine is basically Welch's grape juice with alcohol (and it's Kosher, if you are Jewish). I can certainly relate to your original post - I didn't develop a real interest in wine until my early 30's, and I found most wine stores bewildering at first. So, dive in! The fun is just beginning, despite the cold reception you got from some other posters here.

Dan-O

Thank you for the clarification.

Though not normally the "stuff" that is bandied about here, many of us can recall (recall - yeah, right, "what did I come into this room for?") when our tastes and preferences were elsewhere with regards to wine.

The question, that you pose, is not an uncommon one, though possibly worded a bit differently.

You might also want to look into some of the "fruit" wines, made from products other than grapes. In Colorado, USA, several of the vintners, many who make some fairly serious wines, also do these, as do many producers in Virginia, UAS. Depending on where you are, there might well be wineries that work with peach, strawberry, and honey (Mead, and mead-like wines). Some of these can be nice when well chilled and in small quantities.

Also, many wineries NOT in Napa, Sonoma, Willamette, etc. produce wines in a lighter, sweeter style, as their likely clientle choose that/those style(s).

Good luck, and don't be surprised if your tastes one day include some of the "fine" wines. It happens all of the time.

Hunt

Lambrusco was also a nice accompaniment for my wife's "barbeque'd shrimp." The sweetness cut some of the spice. I've long since substituted Gr Rieslings, but do fondly recall the "old" days of nice Lambursco.

Ah, you ARE allowing me to relive my mis-spent youth. Mo's, how I long for that place. Soon I'll start humming the chorus to "Reflections of My Life." Well, maybe not, but nearly.

Thanks for the laugh, Joe,

Hunt

Welches grape juice with alcohol. I wrote that down. :)

Thanks much!!

--Katy

Joseph B. Rosenberg, you wrote, "My first, was something sweet & concord at a seder in 1949, I got sick and had a headache. "

Can wine (if a newbie like me) make you sick? I drank (choked down) about 3 inches of red wine in a paper cup at a Summer party a month or so ago, and then about three hours later I woke up at 2am and threw up. I know some people are allergic to the sulfites in wine. But was the wine itself the likely cause of my nausea? I've never drank a beer in my life, but I've had a couple of wine coolers and a hard lemonade or two in my life. They never made me ill. But it seemed the wine did. Or do you think it couldn't have been the wine? I certainly didn't drink enough of it to make me inebriated. I have yet to be inebriated in my life. :) Yes, including college.

Thanks!

-Katy

If I am remembering correctly, my sister used to mix Perrier water with Mogen David wines and made her own Arbor mist type of stuff like 20 years ago. She never liked wine, but that was palatable to her. Not that I'm recommending it or anything, I'd probably just buy the arbor mist.

Now she likes those fruity wine cooler drinks like Bartles & James, Seagrams and others make. I know there are tons of them but I'm not familiar with all the names. They might be worth a shot.

Ted

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