They make an 8,000 dollar bottle of Coke?
for a st pats party I brought a mag of bereche reserve, '19 base. some of the millennial attendees saw fit to mix in some sunny d…whatever, drink it the way you want.
I have never considered it was kind of racist thing. More like nouveau riche wanting to drink the best of the best and realizing at least for their palate it tasted better with coca cola. I have always loved the concept of the “baby taste” which I ascribe to Terry Theise. Lafite - as beautiful as it may be is still an acquired taste. Mexican Coke on the other hand tastes pretty damn good - I could probably get my dogs to drink it. Lafite - highly unlkely.
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Whatever the drinker wants. Go to the Wurstfest in Bad Durkheim sometime. The wine equivilent of Oktoberfest.
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Doesn’t Fu make Boilermakers with Salon and Red Bull?
Goes with Pioneer Chicken.
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Surely such a white wine spritzer is rather common, in warm countries particularly?
And sangria is just red or white wine with fruit and stuff added.
I do also recall a rather distressing experience I had in Taipei watching some guy mix 7-Up and Petrus for the rather scantily-dressed young lady sat on his knee.
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Hmmm, weird thread. When it comes to mass-produced wine I don’t care - many are probably improved with a splash of Fritz Cola - but if someone does something like this to a cared for and artistically made bottle, I would consider them idiots. Sure, people are free to do whatever they want. That means I’m also free to think them obnoxious for doing it.
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In the south of France, there is the chabrot or “chabrol” custom: when you are having soup, you add red wine to the last drops of soup in your bowl, swill it around, and enjoy the mixture!
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Man, if I had a dollar for every “wine cooler” pitcher I served when I worked in an Italian Bistro, I’d be able to order a DRC and Coke!
Chianti and Sprite accompanied many people’s spaghetti.
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I was doing a winemaker’s dinner at a country club in Palm Springs. A woman dumped her rather pricey ice wine into her coffee as she didn’t see any sugar on the table.
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I saw an example of this while visiting a tasting room during a trip to Barossa Valley some 10 years ago. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was seeing so I queried the lady pouring wine and she said yes. They had a steady influx of Chinese tourists many of whom would ask for a Coke along with their glass of wine upon which they would head for the back of the room and mix the two. Anecdotal but confirmatory on a very small scale.
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