Drink when happy or sad ?

WINE TALK
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OK, need honesty to answer this one !!

Apart from the obvious occasions like birthdays, thanksgiving etc do you find your self more likely to do :

a) Open one of your great bottles because your in a happy mood and just want to be happier

b) Open one of your great bottles because you are felling a bit down and pissed at the world and you want something to put a smile on your face

c) Only ever open a great bottle if its planned well in advance for whatever reason be it celebration, party. offline etc


I must admit that im more of a b

Alan

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Yes.

3

I really only drink socially. I was alone on NYE and didn’t drink a drop. If I’ve had a bad day and there’s an offline that evening, just the thought of that get-together will make me happy enough to forget the day and drink some killer wine.

I might have a beer when I’m alone, but it’s usually just a 12oz or 16oz, I very rarely open a 22oz/750ml alone.

4

I don’t open something good if I’m in a bad mood. I usually make a plan to open my good stuff but if I’m having a great day I will occasionally pop one spontaneously. Almost all good bottles I share with my wife or others who appreciate it, just more fun that way IMHO.

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a and c

happyhappyhappy!

6

I really enjoy wine with food, so if someone is serving food, open a bottle for me.

7

Mood doesn’t really enter into it. Generally for the fanciest wines it will be because it’s a setting with people that would appreciate them. Apart from that it’s food, setting and aiming to open a fine that is either interesting or I’ve enough experience with it to know it will be a good match.

I haven’t generally gone out ‘to celebrate’, and almost never to ‘commiserate’. I could see how drinking to lift the mood could be a very dangerous thing.

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A

9

Mostly C, sometimes A, can’t remember ever doing B

10

Almost exclusively A.

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Poll?

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What Ian said. Mood doesn’t ever enter into it.

In fact, I don’t think mood should be part of the equation. I don’t want to “use” wine. I only want to enjoy it on its own and for itself. I don’t know, but it would seem to me that if people start using it, they enter a dangerous area.

Planning well in advance however, is not “using” wine. It isn’t the only time I’d open a good bottle, and I"m going to open one tonight with a burrito actually, but it’s just like planning the rest of your dinner.

13

The special day is when you open that bottle. It would be a, b and c for me.

14

Flawed choices. Does not cover all cases.

15

I deliberately avoid self-medicating with alcohol in any form. I tend to plan to open particular bottles rather than making decisions about opening bottles spontaneously but that has more to do with planning combinations of wine and food for their mutual advantage.

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"I drink champagne on two occasions:

  • when I’m in love, and when I’m not"

Coco Chanel

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“I only drink champagne when I’m happy, and when I’m sad.
Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone.”
"When I have company, I consider it obligatory.
I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. "
"Otherwise I never touch it - unless I’m thirsty. "

Lily Bollinger

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Mostly C and occasionally A. Bad days are usually brought on by work, which leads to lots of hours and no time for wine.

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Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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Drinking alcohol because you’re sad. Isn’t that one of the tent poles of alcoholism.