Wine is a mocker

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Proverbs 20:1

And never a truer word was said.  A while back I turned out the dining room and managed to tunnel to where we had kept a lot of alcohol.  The tunnel is now blocked again, but I am optimistic.  Regardless, I excavated the bottles which dated back probably a decade.  Some of them looked okay, but the stuff we bought ourselves was always going to be a bit suspect because I only ever buy cheap wine. 

It showed.  We first opened a bottle labelled 'Good French White'.  Hmmm.  It may have been when we bought it, but when we poured out the 'white' it was an attractive caramel brown shade, and smelled a little like sherry.  We decided not to try it, and that was disposed of. 

Then we found a bottle of 'Black Tower'.  I always liked the look of the bottles, but never really touched it much, so thought it would be fun.  This did look fine, but the taste was just that bit off, and after seeing what had become of the 'Good French White', we decided to play it safe and dispose of that as well.

In the end we had some recently bought Sambuca.  OH and I much prefer spirits.  On the one hand we prefer the taste of many spirits and liqueurs.  On the other hand if OH and I share a bottle of standard wine we almost never finish it, whereas with a spirit or liqueur we can just have a little bit and then put it back without worrying about waste. 

I can see me pouring a lot of wine down the drain in the next few weeks, and then the mortifying experience of dropping of dozens and dozens of bottles at the bottle bank again.  But at least there will be a bit more space than there was.