Amy asks:
When I drink I'm totally going for the buzz factor. When I'm out I even try to calculate bang for buck sometimes. My question is, should I make an attempt to learn more about alcohol because I'm not a 19 year old frat boy and should start acting like an adult someday? Should I learn what wine goes with which meat or just stick with the fact that a glass of wine may sometimes be the key to my sanity?
I may not be the best person to ask about this because I do not like wine, but you know I have an opinion about it anyway. I don't think you should bother to learn which wine goes best with what. What you should do instead is always ask your server or the sommelier for a suggestion and then just order the cheapest option they suggest.
That said, if you are going for the buzz factor, you need to lay off the wine and switch to the hard stuff. I recently learned that I like a gina and tonic with lime. Ordering that is much classier than ordering my usual Malibu rum and diet Coke.
