What do you drink when your other half is out...?

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MichaelB

Michael Boniface
Maybe it's just me (and I do love my wife dearly...) but I really enjoy drinking and eating on my own every so often. Focus on more family-unfriendly wines, think about the wine a bit more, eat things your partner wouldn't touch, listen to music differently etc.
Any thoughts?
 
My wife likes everything that I like. I tend to just open every-day wines (rather than pulling something more upscale).

. . . . . Pete
 
I tend to drink things that aren't precious and that my wife is unlikely to like, mainly older, funkier white wines or those with residual sugar.

Mark Lipton
 
I (naturally) prefer to drink the special bottles with her. But she drinks so little that it's hardly even noticeable!

When I am alone, I go for the extra thin and sour wines, because she likes more substance in her wines. But then again, I don't really buy anything that fits her ideal preference of Southern and robust. Which you might consider an oversight, but then again, she drinks so little, it's hardly even noticeable and not worth me choking through 99% of a bottle of Southern Rhone wine!

From time to time I think it could be nice if she shared more interest in wine. But we are who we are. And I wouldn't want to change her. I certainly wouldn't enjoy being married to a drunken sloppy mess on the other extreme!
 
I'm much more likely to open something austere or leaner/meaner by myself. My wife's preferences tend to be a tad riper and bigger than mine. I'm also more likely to get into the whiskey when she's not around.
 
It was our 32d anniversary on Wednesday. as Mark hasn't been drinking for almost 26 of those years, my answer is the same as MarkS's.

By the way, that night we had dinner with 2 friends (1 who lives here and 1 who was visiting, who also doesn't drink) and i had a lovely bottle of Bereche Beaux Regards and an excellent Bow & Arrow pinot noir at Coquine, which is easily one of the best 2 or 3 restaurants in PDX and less than a year old.
 
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