Netscape Forum Poll: Red or white?

[Robin Garr]

You don't have to be a wine expert to join in this week's Netscape/CompuServe WineLovers Community poll: Do you prefer to drink (and collect) red wine, white wine or other ... or a little of each? Fill in the ballot, then see how your response compares with wine lovers around the world.

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since i mostly like my whites fresh, i collect red and drink a lot of white. expections made for sauterne and some white burgundy.

I'd like to be able to say "both". I'd be kidding myself though. I do drink more whites than reds, and of my modest stash that is aging at home about 60% is white.

I said "All Red" because right now that's all my taste allows. Not had great experiences with whites and my wife hasn't liked any she's tried so I don't really look any more [iffy on spending money for a wine I may not like].

Trying to expand the horizons one wine at a time, though. Just picked up a muscadet today and will try a riesling in the coming weeks and will go from there. Hope to get in on some tastings, too, which will help.

As much as I love a whole variety of dry reds, I love whites just as much and could never see myself being a red-only type of wine drinker. In fact, even my home winemaking is typically split 50/50 between red and white. About the only thing I don't do is rosé, oddly enough - though that would change if I had access to grapes like Catawba, New York Muscat and Delaware.

Cellartracker says I have about 80% reds:
Red 79.03
Red-Fortified 0.67%
Red-Sweet 0.19%

White-11.44%
White-off-dry 4.48%
White-Sweet 3.72%
White Sparkling 0.29%

Rose -sparkling 0.19%

That reflects what I cellar, but I don't enter the "buy and drink within a month" wines, and my actual consumption is probably just very slightly more reds than whites.

I would say out of 10 bottles of wine that I buy, 9 are red, and 1 white. While I have had beautiful moments with white wines, earth shattering moments and epiphanies have only happened with red wines. An ideal meal always would start with a glass of refreshing and crisp white, but always moves to a red.

At least 80% of my cellared wines are white (not even counting the sparks). Besides the fact that I overwhelmingly prefer white wine to red, I find them more subtley complex and with a geater range of flavors. Even the red wines I keep tend to be on the subtle side of the spectrum -Burgundy, Austria, Germany, Loire. That said, I am a sucker for good Margaux.


Prost!
Bill

I love both reds and white ... with the big exception of Chardonnay. My wine storage has predominantly reds, however.

-- Clark

In the past, 90% reds. For the past year, I've been 50/50.

Started with the health benefits of reds, but it appears two glasses of either color works almost as well.

Time to learn some new stuff.

Wine Update: Opened a gifted bottle of Turning Leaf Pinot Grigio last night. Obviously not the greatest example of a white, but it was decent so I will be trying more whites [including the muscadet I was talked into buying last week].

[James Roscoe]

My wine storage is probably 30% white and 70% red for the simple reason that more reds are neant to be aged, even short-term, than whites. I even that out by buying a lot of inexpensive whites each week to drink right away. My consumption therefore comes out to something more like 40% white and 60% red. Of course then I remember theat sparklers and roses have not been included and if youthrow them into the white side of the equation, then it may tip towards the whites. It's certainly close to 50/50. I need to drink more champagne.

I seem to trend towards reds, but I'm trying to increase my exposure to whites. I LOVE sauvignon blanc, especially the powerful ones from New Zealand, so they tend to be my white default - although I do also enjoy chenin blanc and have had one or two viogners that I liked as well.

I need to drink more champagne.

I have a friend who adores champagne and drinks it almost daily!

I also heard somewhere that Germans love the stuff, and consume it more than any other type of wine.