What best describes your wine drinking habit relative to your significant other
Significant other not so into wine, drink relatively affordable wines on regular days, splurge on more pricey stuff with wine friends and during special occasions.
Significant other also into wine, drink relatively affordable wines on regular days, splurge on more pricey stuff with wine friends and during special occasions.
Significant other not so into wine, drink relatively affordable and expensive wines on regular days, whatever floats my boat that day.
Significant other also into wine, drink relatively affordable and expensive wines on regular days, whatever floats our boat that day.
Significant other not so into wine, drink mostly very good and/or expensive wines on regular days, whatever floats my boat that day
Significant other also into wine, drink mostly very good and/or expensive wines on regular days, whatever floats our boat that day.
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Curious on people drinking habits relative to their significant other, and to an extent their wine friends. Personally I have found myself only drinking the good stuff with wine friends and on special occasions. I rarely pop a $60+ bottle on a weeknight if I want to have wine with dinner/food. Most of the time, I will only drink the high-end stuff on special life occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, job promotions, etc.) or if I am with friends who are really into wine. There is no right or wrong answers here, just curious on other people’s wine habits.
Wife also into wine, similar tastes. We have 2 little kids, which keeps things chaotic.
We typically drink de Negoce or other ~$15-20 bottles during the week. Fridays if we aren’t to exhausted we’ll do “fancy Bordeaux Friday” and usually open something nice we picked up at auction -typically $50-100 all in. May drink we’ll Saturday depending on many factors.
If we’re popping anything over $150 it’s either with friends or a special occasion.
Aside from leaving out Brett Favre as an option, the poll alternatives are way too complicated to figure out
My wife likes wine and has a great palate, but probably couldn’t name 2 dozen wines by name. I get a lot of “I like this one; you can buy more” or “we’ve had this one before haven’t we?”
We rarely (and I mean rarely) drink wine during the week when together. We share a bottle on Friday and Saturday evenings, and I will occasionally drink a half bottle on Sundays without her. Historically, when she has been out of town mid-week I have opened a half.
Lucky enough to have a wife who keeps me in the style to which I’ve become accustomed. Probably drinks as much or more than I…we literally don’t think much about how much a bottle costs if we enjoy it and we drink $20 wines and $500 wines. But nobody wants to pay “retail”.
I went for option #4. My wife likes wine but doesn’t geek over it. She’ll drink anything I open short of Syrah, Cab. Open 4-6 bottles a week, avg price around $30-35.
I can’t sort out the nuances of the poll, but my wife really enjoys wine and most of the same wines I like (she drops off some on the most rustic old world wines), and when I open something, she’s happy to share.
She’ll also go to wineries or tasting dinners when she can and has a genuine interest and appreciation, but she doesn’t go to tasting things without me, and she doesn’t geek out about the details and nuances of wine to the extent I do. She also doesn’t go shop for wines herself, other than occasionally for a birthday present or something.
She doesn’t usually drink without me, but if I’m out of town for a few days and leave a good bottle in the fridge or on the counter for her, she might end up working through all or some of it.
The poll options don’t quite fit my situation: My girlfriend likes wine, has some knowledge, has a great palate, can tell when something is aged and/or special. But it’s just not as important to her as it is to me.
We have a shop near us that does curated mixed cases for $150, and they change it up every couple months or so. Lots of interesting stuff, most of it’s good, occasionally some of it is excellent. Loire, Languedoc, South West, some of the newer natural-ish Bordeaux producers, various appellations from Spain/Italy/Germany.
We generally have a case of that on hand and chip away at it a few nights a week.
And then we do more expensive stuff once in a while, maybe once every couple weeks.
We probably finish the bottle on Day 1 maybe 30% of the time, but more often we get through ~2/3 of it and have the rest on Day 2.
My spouse and I usually share a bottle most evenings starting with supper and generally continuing for the two hours thereafter. She has a great palate and we enjoy most of our wines together, but sadly, she doesn’t enjoy most red Burgundy so with those I have to seek. help from my other wine buds.
My husband has a very good palate but he has no idea if the wine is expensive or everyday. I get a kick out of him trying to pronounce and learn about the wines. I was surprised, he is in Florida now with friends (I’m home working!) and he was invited to a wine tasting. He knew enough to buy a good 2016 CdP that was rated well! He was so proud of himself when he called and asked me if it was any good.
Wife enjoys wine, has a good palate, but could not begin to tell you which vintages were good, what producers are known for what, etc. She just enjoys and appreciates good wine and can tell the difference between good and wow, and plonk and good. We open just about whatever floats my boat. Only occasionally will she request something specific. More likely she’ll tell me what she’s not really interested in that night, and I’ll work around it. If I know she’s out and I’m interested, I’ll drink a chardonnay because it’s among her least favorites. I’m less likely to pop what I consider an expensive bottle on a weekday than a Fri or Sat, but that also depends on what’s going on and what I’m cooking.
Much too specific options, I can’t really figure out the difference between the last 4. My spouse is into wine (not quite as much as I am) and we drink whatever floats our boat. I have bottles reserved to drink just with her and others to drink just with wine friends (which she may join). Most bottles are just fair game.
Apologies if the poll options are a tad unclear. Will attempt to break it down a little more:
1 & 2 - usually only drink more affordable wines on regular days and pricier wines only with wine friends and special occasions. Implication here is a pricier wine is that above $50 - $60, but can be adjusted to $100+.
3 & 4 - usually drink any wine, from cheap to really expensive at any time, whenever I feel like it, whether on a weekday dinner or a special occasion
5 & 6 - usually drink very good and /or expensive stuff only anytime I want, whether on a weekday dinner or a special occasion. The implication here is also that relatively cheaper wine is rarely drunk (sub $18 wines).
So there are only 3 categories but a sub category is added to differentiate those whose spouse is quite into wine as well. My wife will not really drink during the weekday and will only occasionally drink wine, mostly on celebratory occasions only.
Wife is currently pregnant, but when she is drinking we pull whatever fits the meal, mood and day. Still aging most of our baby cabs long term but they are coming to age sooner than later.
It’s still too specific, most people won’t fit within those three categories. For category 5&6 you say drink very good and expensive stuff any day of the week, but the definition of “very expensive” seems arbitrary (not a sub $18 wine?) Are you trying to understand what people share with their significant others? It just seems to be a poll has two axes that are very unrelated: (1) general drinking behavior / money spent on wine and (2) whether spouses drink or not.
I could not follow the poll either - ADHD, reading comprehension and all that - but my wife and I both drink moderately every evening. She goes for NZ Sav Blanc, but has a solid palate, and better at catching notes than I am. Sounds like Kane’s and Neal’s wines. She loved the Vatan I popped on Monday, and the Dom we had a week ago, but rarely asks for that quality of wine. Occasionally she asks for reds when we grill meat, and really loves Bedrock and Ridge Zin. She does not like the Euro stuff that I tend to pop, especially the geeky, feral or funky. She does like Beaujolais and CDP, however. As she goes white most nights, I tend to just pop for me whatever suits my fancy that night. I hate thinking I can only have nice wines on weekends, and daily drinkers on weekdays, so tend to be rather whimsical in what I grab. When we share a white, it tends to be something like William’s Chenin Blanc, Saul’s Chardonnay, or a Sancerre.
I drink 1, maybe 2 bottles per week. My GF will generally have <1 glass if she drinks it. At least half the time, she will smell the glass and refuse to drink it. Once in a great while she will have 2 glasses if she really loves the wine. Generally, we drink in the $25-50 range bottles. Sometimes I will randomly pull out $50-100 range, especially if I have already had too much wine.