buy wine in Poland! very difficult.

pgtxThreads: 49 Posts: 6,327 Joined: Feb 14, 09 MEMBER ♀	Jul 6, 10, 20:40 #61
how hard buying wine can be... especially in Poland! just ask: "Poprosze mocne wino! Dziekuje najmocniej, panienko!" :)

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jul 6, 10, 20:41 #62
Portugal aren't renowned for their wines but their climate is good. Sorry, I was thinking Lidl for NZ wines. Still, I'm open to suggestion.

alexw68	Jul 6, 10, 21:15 #63
Seanus: Portugal aren't renowned for their wines WTF? Try a good Dao or Vinho do Douro and be very pleasantly surprised. Admittedly, it's surprisingly infrequent on supermarket shelves, but...

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jul 6, 10, 21:15 #64
They are hardly up there with Chile, NZ, OZ or SA (RPA)

MagdalenaThreads: 5 Posts: 1,389 Joined: Aug 15, 07 ♀	Jul 6, 10, 22:27 #65
Greek wines can be very good. At least the ones I'd tried - but as the wine was served at home by some friends, I did not really look at labels or anything, I just drank a lot of it ;-)

SzwedwPolsceThreads: 13 Posts: 1,915 Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂	Edited by: SzwedwPolsce Jul 6, 10, 23:50 #66
Magdalena: Greek wines can be very good. I'm sure Southern has some interesting information about that. But where is he? Well, there are many tourists in Greece now, so I guess he has "a lot" to do.

bimber94Threads: 9 Posts: 400 Joined: Mar 13, 09 ♂	Jul 7, 10, 12:42 #67
Magdalena I did not really look at labels or anything, I just drank a lot of it ;-) You probably 'sulphurised' yourself!

frdThreads: 8 Posts: 1,956 Joined: Feb 3, 09 ♂	Jul 7, 10, 12:52 #68
Oh.. wines.. good memories - this one was really popular in my secondary scool: good old plastic cap.. it was pretty expensive for a cheap wine - 4.5zł..

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jul 7, 10, 12:53 #69
Magda, that's one label I actually do look at. Not for long, mind you :) Gliwice probably has many wine lovers as there are quite a few places around which offer wine. With an ever-growing nouveau-riche culture emerging, that will only strengthen that.

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Aug 27, 10, 14:11 #70

Learnt a very costly error the other day. Had some guests from a far-away Polish town. One middle-aged woman - and her friends - all claimed she was a sophisticated wine expert. So to impress, out comes my only bottle of Chateau Haut-Brignon 1985 (a brilliant vintage!!!) which I bought in France ages ago. When I showed them the label they all ignored it. When I wouldn't put it down one of them eventually piped out: "hmmmm, looks nice". Too late to put it away again. When tasting, the so-called wine expert asks: "z czego to jest?". The words pearls and swine came immediately to mind. I could have kicked her butt!!!!! Wine expert my flabby backside! From now on it's a litre of bełt (aptly labelled 'FART') or the cheapest vodka. I'll never take Polacks seriously again. 99.99% of them are such potato republicans. F them!! And yes, I'm F angry with myself I wasted such good wine. I made a fool of myself for being so trusting and naive.

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Edited by: aphrodisiac Aug 27, 10, 14:40 #71

bimber94:

Learnt a very costly error the other day. Had some guests from a far-away Polish town. One middle-aged woman - and her friends - all claimed she was a sophisticated wine expert. So to impress, out comes my only bottle of Chateau Haut-Brignon 1985 (a brilliant vintage!!!) which I bought in France ages ago. When I showed them the label they all ignored it. When I wouldn't put it down one of them eventually piped out: "hmmmm, looks nice". Too late to put it away again. When tasting, the so-called wine expert asks: "z czego to jest?". The words pearls and swine came immediately to mind. I could have kicked her butt!!!!! Wine expert my flabby backside! From now on it's a litre of bełt (aptly labelled 'FART') or the cheapest vodka. I'll never take Polacks seriously again. 99.99% of them are such potato republicans. F them!! And yes, I'm F angry with myself I wasted such good wine. I made a fool of myself for being so trusting and naive.

lol, good story, but I can see the frustration with such people:) and if you are a wine lover, keep the vintage for yourself:).

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Aug 27, 10, 14:40 #72

That's mainly your own mistake. Did you talk to this "expert" before about wines as an intro to what you were planning to serve? Why?
But I also understand the frustration, however this can happen everywhere not just Poland.

bimber94:

I'll never take Polacks seriously again. 99.99% of them are such potato republicans. F them!! And yes, I'm F angry with myself I wasted such good wine. I made a fool of myself for being so trusting and naive.

bimber94:

Wine expert my flabby backside!

-BUT if you write such a thing and still think that, then F your flabby backside;)

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Aug 27, 10, 15:18 #73

Olaf
But I also understand the frustration, however this can happen everywhere not just Poland.

Like in a salt mine in outer Siberia?

No Olaf, I didn't talk to this "expert". You're right that I should have grilled her first. Being naive, I took her at face value. She seemed very intelligent and very plausible.

Yes I'm still angry, so I'll bend over so you can F my flabby backside. I deserve it.

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