Wine for camping

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Josh Wilson

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Your going camping with your significant other and want to bring some wine to set the mood ;) (and you want to see how well the corkscrew on the SAK works :) ). What wine do you choose? There will be no long hikes so the weight of the bottle is not an issue.
 
About half of the "significant others" I've taken camping brought their own favorite whine:

'I'm cold!', 'The ground is too hard!', 'How much further is it?' and 'Why do I have to carry this?'

They quickly lost their "significance".

The wine of choice would depend upon the menu. I find a hearty burgundy goes well with beef jerky, but I prefer a blush with roasted squirrel.

I do not recommend trying to make sangria using the dehydrated fruit from your trail mix. :barf:
 
I was thinking of a late evening sipping wine. I figure serving wine with the mac-and-cheese dinner would be pointless:). Right now I'm leaning towards a Muscat (bubbly with some fruit flavor).
 
If you're not backpacking, might as well bring 2 or more. I've taken splits of Late Harvest Reislings and Ice Wine on campouts before, these sweeties went over well with my wife as after dinner sippers. So would an Aussie 'sticky' like Benjamins Tawny Port.

A bottle of zin or syrah/shiraz to go with a steak or some sauv. blanc to go with trout or chicken wouldn't be a bad bet either. ;)
 
I prefer a Corbet Canyon Merlot. It's sweet, dry and smooth and cooks up great with most any fresh game, especially deer, rabbit, and squirrel.

If you're fishing, might I recommend a sweet, white wine like Linganore Vineyards Apple Wine. It's almost a white wine apple cider and is EXCELLENT warm or cold.

Of couse the wine is going in YOUR backpack! :D I have a flask of rum in mine. ;)
 
I don't know dooky about wine myself, but professional wine-O's, seem to favor Wild Irish Rose and Boones Farm:D

Sorry for the that one! Can some one recommend some good wines (in addition to the Merlot NorthStarXO suggested) to go with venison? I had a Port wine once with it that seemed good, but I don't know wines. Thanks!
 
In addition to the other late harvest varieties mentioned above, a few companies also put out a nice late harvest gewurztraminer.
 
how about a nice mead for after dinner? There's a local meadery (Sky River) here in Washington that turns out both a dry and a sweet. The sweet is not as syrupy as the polish meads (which are also good, but very sweet and sticky).

Pat
 
If you are where you can chill the bottle in a stream or something then my experience is that women tend to enjoy fruitty little Chardonnay's or things that really are more like slightly alcoholic flavors of kool-aid..in other words..not dry wines.

If you can't chill it then most reds would go nicely with trail food but again...red wines tend to be an acquired taste.

Anyway...snobbery aside...the best wine for the occasion is the wine you like. Careful with the red though....nothing like hiking day two with a hangover.

Bottoms up
 
MY Woman... likes her Jack Daniels, neat and carries her own, next to her Makarov and with her Spiderco in her VERY short jeans back pocket. She likes her wine after a heavy workout with the BIG iron, but Jack gets her ready for the sack... She's reading and dictating to me... so I've GOT to get some more Jack NOW!!!!!!!!! I'm gone.
 
Gotta be honest, there ain't a whole lot in the world I like more that sitting around a campfire sipping something good (usually brown, from Scotland or Kentucky) and maybe smoking a little something (usually brown and from the Dominican Republic or Cuba)! :D

As for camping wine, I like a hearty red. Perhaps even a port. Fill camp cup. Empty. Repeat. Blow some low tunes on harmonica. Look at stars. Scratch dog behind ear. Whittle.
 
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