Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When asked what wine someone wanted, they replied `ABC'. When
> the recipient of this response said, quite naturally - `What?',
> he first person replied - `Anything But Chardonnay'.
>
> Now if this isn't justification to beat someone to death
> with
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I
> am a complete sucker for anything from Sauternes, Lupiac, Pauliac,
> Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a
You would enjoy the
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Chris Heathcote wrote:
> DavidC:
> > According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it,
> > *I* liked it.
>
> Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem
> quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night.
A
DavidC:
> According to the critics, it is 'acceptable if not great' but fuck it,
> *I* liked it.
Remember a lot of wine suffers from the holiday effect, and doesn't seem
quite as nice on a wet blustery Thursday night.
> Lachryma Christi del Vesuvio, in case anyone is interested.
Ah, I have hear
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
>
> /me only drinks belgian beers/lagers.. or ales/bitter esp not any of that
> american crap.
Ahem. There are some fine american beers. You probably just don't see
them over there (lord knows they're hard enough to find here...)
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
> Because we didn't acquire a taste for lager but rather had it shoved down
> our throats by marketroids who saw an opportunity to mass-produce fizzy
> crap instead of brewing properly.
>
> Anyway, Shurely you're forgetting about the Netherlands, Belgium
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here
> >goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant
> >is the wine.
>
> Nonsense. You just order the most expensive Barolo on the wine list.
mmm Barolo
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Which reminds me - when the Brits acquired a taste for lager rather than
> ale,
Did we? :)
> why did we start drinking lager from every country in Europe except
> Germany, who are the only ones to actually make drinkable stuff?
At 00:07 27/03/2001, you wrote:
>* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten
> around to
> > drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be
> > very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see.
> >
>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs
> > throughout Naples
> > > back in November does not seem to be available over here at all.
> >
> >
> Graves, Monbazilac etc. and had a very nice Trochenbeerenauslese a
> month or so ago that I reckon was just s good (and it
> should have been
It is a sad sad thing that it's darn near impossible to get decent German or
Austrian wine in this country since the Austrian anti-freeze scandal (a
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs
> throughout Naples
> > back in November does not seem to be available over here at all.
>
> Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can
> keep it for
> the
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> it is indeed .. My Father who has knowledge of such things tells me 5
> 'large wickerwork baskets' of over ripe grapes .. but baskets, shovels ..
> the principles the same. Bigger the number, sweeter (and more honey
> coloured) the wine. As far as I
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:59:56PM -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
> On the other hand, since it's going to be in San Diego, maybe not...
s/TPC5/TPC\\d/ -- you knew what I meant :)
>
> dha
>
> --
> David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/
> "In my opinion, there's nothi
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:17:29PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least
> > point me at a merchant over here who can.
>
> Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Mont
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> meaning to ring the vinyard to see if they can send me a case, or at least
> point me at a merchant over here who can.
Alternatively, if TPC5 is held in Monterey again you can partake of
the local plethora of vineyards in the area.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > know what is.
> >
> > ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :)
> >
>
> it all depends, the one i recommeded has body
I am of cours always ready to be educated .. by practical demonstration ;)
> > then we get on to
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Just to get us back on topic
>
> I heartilly recommend Terrazaz Chardonnay, its very nice for
> a chardonnay - which reminds me of one of the most pretentious
> things i ever heard said ( i can't remember if it was on tv,
> radio or in the flesh, but i have
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > know what is.
>
> ughh ,,, chardonay .. toilet water :)
>
it all depends, the one i recommeded has body
> then we get on to the 'wine so sweet you could stand a spoon up in it'. I
well here we go into the realms of hungarian desert wine, now i a
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:22:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Unfortunately, the lovely Italian wine I found in caffs throughout Naples
> back in November does not seem to be available over here at all.
Why ship the good stuff to the ignorant Brits when they can keep it for
themselves? Sound
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may be too late already so here
> goes, one of the things i hate about going out to a italian restaurant
> is the wine.
me too but then I don't like the wine in many other
restaurants e
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still haven't gotten around to
> drinking it. Not sure I'll like it though, because Italian reds tend to be
> very thin, and I like chewy wines. We'll see.
>
I don't want to sound like a twat, but it may
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its
> Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its
> actually a fairly good red wine.
Ooh good. I got one of them for Christmas and still
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> Just to get us back on topic
>
I just had to buy a bottle of Pendulum Zinfandel at the weekend - its
Italian and comes in a shiny gold bottle ... and despite appearances its
actually a fairly good red wine.
/J\
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