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[Zhills]

I don't do wine either.  Someone suggested that I get a

Bacardi Cocktail on the rocks. 

Bacardi Rum

Ingredients: 2/3 oz (4 parts) Lemon or Lime juice, Ask for sour mix.

1/6 oz (1 part) Grenadine syrup,

1 1/2 oz (9 parts) Bacardi white rum

Preparation: Shake together in a mixer with ice. Strain into glass and serve.

 You can ask for "easy on the rum!"  It will weaken as the ice melts.  Tastes like fruit punch!  You can nurse it a long time!

[Burnsite]

I enjoy wine but not cocktails so much. 

But sometimes I enjoy a Vodka and Tonic with a twist of lime, though you have to like the flavor of quinine.  For some reason I love its sweet bitterness.

[sunshine45]

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just bee wrote:

You say Tom Collins is an option, but do you like gin?  If not, that may be an issue.  If you don't know if you don't like gin, a Tom Collins is a nice way to ease into gin.  (She recalls the year of student teaching in college...)

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if you dont like a tom collins you can always order a vodka collins.....an easy switch.

[Moonchilde]

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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@Irshgrl31201 wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

If the restaurant/venue you'll be going to has a menu of specialty drinks/"martinis", there are many "martinis" of various flavors that should appeal, and you could nurse it, i.e. just sip at it for hours, if you choose.

I had a peach bellini "martini" at lunch yesterday - vodka,  peach nectar, peach schnapps and a splash of champagne. It was delightful.

I use "quotes" around the word martini because IMO what are commonly called martinis in today's restaurants and bars bear little to no resemblance to a traditional martini, they've just appropriated the word.

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I love the word delightful so much to describe a really good drink.

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This is one of my favorite restaurants, @Irshgrl31201, in part because their drinks menu is extensive and creative, AND there is liquor in the drink, i.e. you aren't paying martini prices for a drink you'd swear had no alcohol in it. At this restaurant they all pack a punch. One is perfect, with a meal. I had a lobster roll with my "martini" and it really was delightful 😜

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Wow @Moonchilde everything you had sounds delicious! I love lobster rolls! Drink menus sure have changed to what they were 20 yrs ago. I don't remember all these beautiful, tasty hand crafted drinks back then. However, I was really broke so maybe I wasn't going to those types of restaurants/bars because I couldn't afford it. 

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@Irshgrl31201, as I recall, 20 years ago the drinks were either simple, like gin & tonic or whisky & soda, or they were "umbrella drinks" often made with rum & fruit juice. I think *real* martinis were kinda "out" 20 years ago.

My go-to cheapie has always been gin & tonic. To me, the type of drinks younger people are dubbing "martinis" these days are what were all the rage in the Roaring 20s - just termed "cocktails." They've always been more expensive than the simple combos. But nowadays, $9-10 is cheap for them. So AFAIC, one had better do it for me at that price!

[lOVETOSHOP]

How about a whiskey sour?  A little sweet, a little tart...I always order these while I'm at the casino!