Wine Drinkers Glass or plastic

[CanoeStream]

The S.S. GSI stemware has rims that are as thin as fine crystal. They feel very light and delicate - nary a bend in pretty regular use. Sure, it's not easy to view the color, but...

Roger, sounds like you would fare well with the new wine-box-in-a-hat. A Platypus works best for me when I am driving, though I keep it on the console so body heat doesn't warm it up. (Jest kiddin' folks -- Ever see competitive canoeists with their platypus tube clipped over their shoulder so they can sip without altering paddle cadence?)

Now for a new poll -- who feels they have to refrigerate wine....

[Porky Pig]

Glass ... I drink it directly from the bottle ... uh, I mean jug.

[markdoane]

Originally Posted by Porky Pig

Glass ... I drink it directly from the bottle ... uh, I mean jug.

That's a bad idea. Red wines, especially the Burgundies and Bordeaux, should be allowed to breathe.

I particularly like Roger's method. In my experience, allowing the wine to fall about 30 inches from the spigot is just about the right amount of aeration.

[48_liner]

Being big wine drinkers we prefer glass but while travelling it's got to be plastic. Since the Airstream isn't done ywt, we're still camping in the teardrop and it bounces around a lot. Maybe once we're in the A/S we'll be able to package things better to prevent breaking.

[KIMILI]

...even plastic corks in red wine bottles bother me...urgh

Some things just need to be done the right way!

We never cracked a wine glass neither camping (yes we had glassware when backpacking) or towing.

I lined a paper/cardboard caddy box with bubble wrap and that's where we keep all our glassware. Real easy to access and store in the overhead compartment.

SALUTE

[wingfoot321]

It is plastic wine glasses for us.

I finally convinced the wife that everything she was adding to the trailer was driving up our weight. When she came home with plastic wine glasses, what could I say.

[JStanley]

Wine & Wine Glasses in the AS -what a subject! When I was youngster the only people I knew who drank wine were my grandfather, who made his own, and some drunken men that we called wineos. They always got drunk after their pension or Social Security check arrived.
However, while in college, we did a cost-benefit analysis and determined that wine offered most efficient bang for the buck. It didn’t take long to determine that the side effects produced unintended consequences, which were not initially appreciated. Often we didn’t need any glasses of any kind, and that may have cause a temporary learning disability.

Fast forward 40+ years to the present. We enjoy various table wines in real wine glasses while Airstreaming. Over the years we have accumulated so many mismatched wine glasses (and other stuff) that even if we break a few every year- -we’ll never out live our supply. And we haven’t broken one yet. We do have a couple pair of Waterford wine glasses that are only used once or twice a year. Why? Are the sacred objects? Materialism! Oh well, someday our kids may get to use and squander the AS and Waterfords.

[maxandgeorgia]

I laugh at the always-surprising diversity of this forum~ Trailer Trash foods and Wine: glass or whatever! No wonder I'm addicted.

[denellen]

I would prefer to drink fine vintage reds ( Californian ) from a very thin and light hand-blown " globe". Needless to say we enjoy vintage wines only on special occassions.
Usually when traveling in our A.S., we drink our van-ordinair from Plastic tulips. Light weight, less fragile, and we can carry more of them with which to accommodate our more rustic camp ground acquaintancess.
I might add however, that we do, it seems, find more "special" occasions when wandering in the Stream. It is a sort of serindipodis mode of travel.
I like my Bud Light right from the bottle, but usualy camoflage it in a opaque plastic cup when on a campsite just to placate the r & rs.
Please be assured, if you come across me on a campsite and would like to offer me a drink, of whatever, a paper cup will work just fine for me.
Dennis

[Pahaska]

I strongly prefer glass and certainly use glass at home, but we use Lexan in the Airstream. I suspect that I'm far from alone in that.

[Chaplain Kent]

Originally Posted by wahoonc

Gotta be glass...I have never seen plastic wine bottles before....Ohhh you mean if you aren't drinking it out of the bottle

We buy our wine in a box and in that box is a plastic bag with a little plastic nipple thingy to spit out the wine into our wine glasses.

[Uberlanders]

Originally Posted by Chaplain Kent

We buy our wine in a box and in that box is a plastic bag with a little plastic nipple thingy to spit out the wine into our wine glasses.

You should make another rack to hold the box nipple thingy at face height. Then you wouldn't need the glass...you would just walk up to it and pour into mouth. It saves space because it puts the box up and out of the way and you don't need to store glasses. Wow!

[wahoonc]

Originally Posted by Chaplain Kent

We buy our wine in a box and in that box is a plastic bag with a little plastic nipple thingy to spit out the wine into our wine glasses.

I seldom bother with bag in a box wine...I was taught by wine snobs that once you open the bottle you should finish it off and those boxes are just a bit much for one sitting BTW I do sniff the screw off tops prior to consuming

Aaron

[lundfog]

Along these same lines, the proper way to hold the bottle is,---in the middle so the bottle doesn't slip out of the bag!

[tin sista]

Not to be contrary, but I kinda got to thinking after reading certain posts where folks like a larger distance between the opening of the wine container and their mouths than conventional stuff that maybe wine skins might be in order? Sure would make it easier on the person who cleans their trailer floors/countertops... Might be easier to market than a wine rack...

[SilverRanger]

Steph, great idea! ... unbreakable, wearable wine glasses, or maybe I can just hang them from the ceiling from hooks.

[geosouth]

What a bunch of winers--I like this club! Tumblers for wine at home and in the AS. Beer from its original glass packaging. Utilitarian vessels these tumblers are and when travelling in a Bambi multi-functioning accoutraments are essential. When a tumbler of wine gets dropped and breaks around the campfire it is not for the tumbler that I greive. It is the very thought of making my way back into the nearest small town and searching for a respectable Bordeaux should my consumption estimates for the trip be shy.

[maxandgeorgia]

"...it is not for the tumbler that I greive. It is the very thought of making my way back into the nearest small town and searching for a respectable Bordeaux should my consumption estimates for the trip be shy."
A grief we've communally shared here--one time or another.

[85MH325]

Originally Posted by maxandgeorgia

"...it is not for the tumbler that I greive. It is the very thought of making my way back into the nearest small town and searching for a respectable Bordeaux should my consumption estimates for the trip be shy."
A grief we've communally shared here--one time or another.

Ah, Georgia, but if one always contemplates the necessity for having quality wines nearby, one should contemplate vacationing in the many and varied climes offered by Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties in CA. One is never but an hour away from some of the finest wineries in the world!

(a former resident of Lake Co. CA here...)

Roger

[85MH325]

Originally Posted by KIMILI

...even plastic corks in red wine bottles bother me...urgh
SALUTE

Corks? I don't believe I've ever seen one. The finest wines my budget allows always have a convenient screw cap...

Roger