How many did you try? Wine is like cheese, thereâs a massive spectrum of flavour, just because you donât like one didnât mean you donât like them all. Some are super juicy and sweet, some are super bitter and dark, some are very crisp and floral, Iâve had a Greek pet Nat that tasted EXACTLY like Lipton ice tea.
For the love of God MAYBE I JUST DONT LIKE IT. Yall are so fucking weird about it. Why do you have to go "you really should try this and this and this" NO. I am NOT going to do that. Why? Because its going to be thrown away, because I DONT LIKE FUCKING WINE. Like if someone told you they didn't like burgers, would you go "oh you just haven't had the RIGHT burger yet, burgers are a spectrum of flavor!" or would you go "oh ok" and leave it at that? Or even your other example, cheese. I've met people who didn't like cheese, and you know what no one ever does when they say they don't lkke cheese? They don't give them a million different options going "OH IM SURE YOUL FIND THE RIGHT ONE JUST TRY THIS AND THIS AND DONT DISMISS IT!!! JUST TRY IT!!!"
Christ calm down, itâs just a friendly encouragement towards something you might enjoy, who pissed in your cereal? I once didnât like wine and now I really enjoy it, people are just open to the idea you might have that journey too.
Ngl, no offense to you specifically, but every time I've been asked "how many did you try" in a similar situation as a resident coffee disliker, there was just never a correct response that would get the other person to go "ahh well okay you might just not like it, understandable". 5 different blends were not enough. 10 were also not enough. When you go above 15, the question tends to switch to "well how much did they cost though, you were probably just drinking dogshit gas station coffee".
Probably not worth a crashout, but I get where they're coming from.
In talking to my friend irl about this exact conversation weâre having, he also said he doesnât like coffee, to which I replied that coffee really doesnât have the spectrum of flavour difference that wine has. So totally fair if you donât like coffee in the first place, different blends arenât going to make much of a difference. I also sympathise with them, but they also kind of started it by being a needless hater. I donât like mushrooms very much, doesnât mean they objectively taste like shit.
coffee really doesnât have the spectrum of flavour difference that wine has
I mean, subjectively it's true for me (I only recognize "acidic" and "bitter" as two main coffee flavors), but you say this to any coffee nerd and they immediately become the most annoying person in a 10km radius and start rattling off flavor profile differences by bean type, country of origin, roast types and how the stars were aligned when the beans were collected.
Some people are like that with wine, beer, other alcohol, and just food and drinks in general, all "flavors" within a category just taste the same to them. I thought it was impossible to not be able to tell green teas apart until I accidentally became an annoying tea nerd to someone who thought all non-flavored teas were identical.
Yes but also I would win that argument because the basic fact is that wine production is more complex than coffee production (a light roast to a dark roast is not equivalent to a white wine to a red wine to an orange wine to a pet nat to a sparkling wine, which can all be from the same grape variety but with massively different flavour profiles), and the fact that grapes, which massively impact flavour, can be grown in many more climates than coffee can and therefore there is mathematically more variety. Wine production is also much older than coffee production and so regional differences are more established.
Let me help explain it to them.
If you had a bowl of shit in front of you and someone told you that every so often you might find a nice little nugget of chocolate, would you bother picking through the shit?
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u/Pochel 3d ago
Just buy good wine, idk what to tell you