What are YOU drinking

I'm drinking this lovely lady:


Dirt cheap (for a Norwegian bag-in-box, setting me back around $35-38, or so), yet still quite full and lovely. Since I can only affort cheap wines, this is currently my go-to buy

 

Though the packaging would sooner suggest to me a kitchen-appliance to be inside... still, wine from a bag-in-a-carton-with-a-tap doesn't mean it's bad... sometimes one can be pleasantly surprised!

Looks like you found one that works for you, chapeau!

Santé! ...or in your case perhaps more fitting... Skål!!!

 

Too much information, I'm sure, but...

...while one can often poo-poo bag-in-boxes for being cheap and bad, you certainly cannot in Norway. One of the benefits of having a state-run "wine monopoly" (the actual name in Norwegian of the state's booze business), is that since it isn't insentivised towards making money (i.e., the "King" owns it and he doesn't need money), they can chose not to sell bad wines, so... A bag-in-box in Norway will never be particularly bad.

Furthermore, I happen to be well versed with b-i-bs, for the aformentioned reasones, and, despite being surprisingly cheap (for Norway), this one is very full and complex and smoooooth.

Yeah, I love me some wines, me

 

Not at all! We're here to share and discuss, so bring it!

So despite wine being wildly expensive over there, you're practically guaranteed by Royal Decree, that even the cheapest wine available is of decent quality... well, at least you got that!!

 

Well, not "by royal decree", but yeah, there is a saying among workers of the "Vinmolopolet" (try to guess what that translates like into English... and yeah, I used to work for that state-run company ), that "if you buy booze at the Vinmonopolet you don't know what bad booz is". This is a reference to how one could, back in the day, buy poopy booze in the general stores before the Vinmonopolet state shops were established; like, back in the 50s and earlier.

Basically, Norway, at one point, decided that booze-pushing was a job for the state, and that:
a) It's gonna be expensive, and,
b) that since it's expensive, at least it's not gonna be bad.

 

Cherry Lemonade

 

I'm sooooo envious!
Do you have an impressive wine cellar in your home?

 

For the summer, white is always nicely fresh and fruity (usually when my mum comes over, she stays for dinner and brings along a small bottle of white {her stomach has problems with red}), yet when it gets colder I like reds, because they sually have a bit more body.
Nice reds are indeed a bit more steeply priced, which is why I don't often drink ( red ) wine.

Though there are a few I got my sights on. I still want to try a "ripasso" (where the grapes are used for a second passing and/or fermentation) and a "passito/appassimento" where at least part of the used grapes are dried beforehand. Both methods result in a much richer palette.

For instance these two:
and

Took you long enough! Ten (!) years to finish a bottle of whisky!!

I'm first slowly finishing my The Balvenie Double Wood 12 y.o, before continueing with my 2023 Loch Gorm...
I get, not wanting to finish a whisky like that too fast, but I'm not going to take ten years to do it!
I mean, there's overdoing things and there's overdoing things!!

 

Not yet, but funny enough, the Amarone is incidentally another one on my "big red" wishlist!

 

Looks interesting enough, though I sense those are only available for a limited period.
Very difficult to find! The only example I could find was a case of 6 from 2021, for $72... in the US.
Now... to have a case of wine shipped to Europe as a private person, instead of a company... (I know how overseas parcels are often handled...)