So don’t end the night with Red Bull vodkas?
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Interesting where this went. I am usually in the cellar looking for something good but inexpensive since I know I am impaired and may not appreciate something more expensive. Theoretical of course.
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Doctor’s opinion?
I’ve never quite wrapped myself around the idea of drinking beer(s) after a big wine tasting. Partly I don’t enjoy the shift to the taste of beer after good wines, and mostly I’ve probably naturally slowed down my intake then, so any appetite for more alcohol has gone.
I’ve actually had to take a friend to the ER in Vegas for that…
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Whisky! Gosh I love aged whisky. And it’s more fun at the end of a long night of, hypothetically, drinking!
I will say once a few of us Bersekers pulled a 1965 Mouton out of my fridge, on a whim, after a very long night of way too much hypothetical drinking.
One time at the end of a very long night a guy in our group ordered some very fine champagne, and I found the effervescence very refreshing on the palate. It was a perfect way to end the evening. I’ve repeated that.
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Well, the whole premise of this thread is NOT slowing down your intake.
When I go Beast Mode, I find a quality IPA refreshing after all those drying red wine tannins.
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Based on real life memories, that I can recall, and usually with additional friends and/or family around…I go to the cellar to locate the best QPR wines (see Brian above) within the category we had been consuming (see Max above).
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If I’m done drinking wine but still want something my preference is for Cognac or Armagnac and sometimes whiskey.
I don’t recall consciously ever thinking I’ve drank too much wine already so… what wine do I drink now? But I will admit lubricated decisions to open and partake more wine than originally planned in which case it’s the bottles I set aside as back up bottles that get opened (I often pull back up bottles in case of corked bottles that I do plan on opening) or the alternative bottles I may have set out as part family/guest choice (“Well no one picked this one so let me open it!”).
Some years ago I noted instances where great Sauternes was getting wasted in that plenty of wine drank over special dinners with friends and family meant that those special Sauternes I set aside were completely under appreciated. I’m careful not to indulge too much if I intend on opening a Sauternes at the end.
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Black coffee and grain alcohol is better. No sugar
Slight change of topic here but I usually have red wine first then followed by a glass of bubbles or still white because of the refreshing factor.
And if I am starting with a still white, I will then go to bubbles.
bass ackwards, as they say
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When I have got my drank on and I am so lit, I lean into some purple drank, like Syrah that I can taste through the daze and get it all up in my grill and make my teefes purple and it gimme a fine ass Kool Aid smile. So, maybe some of that there Henschke Hill of Grace or Penfold’s Grange.
Then I quote Isak Denison: “What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”
Then I loudly announce that I gotta go pee.
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Armagnac, my local fernet, or a barrel stout (if I didn’t have dessert).
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I think there’s a sort of corollary of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the more you have consumed the less you may be aware of the situation.
But, ok I’ll play…. Cognac, good rum, water or coffee (or a combo). Never whisky or beer.
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Champagne, Bourbon or Scotch.
There have been some occasions.
That said, I would try to consider opening something that will hold up overnight and be good the next night. From experience, there is a recognition that (1) I’ve already had too much and (2) I likely finally will call it quits after a glass or two from the new bottle. So, not too worried about it bing a complete waste.
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I’ll add that I learned one thing not to do when filled to the gills at the end of a long evening is to open a GC Burgundy. To put it mildly it’s a poor time to try to make an impression on your own palate or on others. Complete fail there.
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When I’m with my wine group, champagne. With other friends, usually a pilsner or two. At home with the family, before, champagne; nowadays, most often some good whisky with my eldest, once in a while cognac or, if I have any handy, Blanton’s.
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Oh, YEAH.
Love me some Shiroz.
But to answer the question: Vintage Port or some Islay malt depending on the mood.
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Port!
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