[Red Badger]

A jug of wine, a hank of hair, and thou?.......

[johniegrad]

I image with the mullahs in charge there will be no renaissance of this terrific story.

I belong to a wine club through Rosenblum Cellars of California, renowned for their zinfandels. They occasionally send me some of their syrahs which have been nothing short of outstanding.

Cyrus, perhaps you should ping the wine ping list for this one.

[johniegrad]

Can you ping the wine list?

[ClearCase_guy]

“I could drink much wine and yet bear it well”

The scribes always pretty it up. What he really said was:

"I can drink you b******* under the table any day of the f****** week! [burp!]"

[NautiNurse]

Click to be added or removed. (Over ninety members).

Wine news ping.

[Xenophobic Alien]

2 of my favorites..

[LibWhacker]

Too bad islam got Persia. Everything it touches rots.

Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. - WC Fields

[CodeToad]

Shiraz, on the north west corner of Clinton and Arapahoe in Denver. Great place to eat.

[emiller]

“I could drink much wine and yet bear it well” --
I bet the guys was a falling-down lush. Just because no one told him he was making scenes- they'd be beheaded. ha
Probably like Red Skelton

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Archaeological investigations have shown that in fact it was in Persia that the earliest wine was made in world history."

All very interesting, but in Genesis 9:20-21 it reads, "Noah, a farmer, was the first person to plant a vineyard. He drank some wine, got drunk, and lay naked inside his tent." This is recorded soon after the flood. No doubt this would pre-date anything in Persia.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DaveLoneRanger for the ping.

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[sionnsar]

Shiraz ping

[yarddog]

Well Cyrus, didn't know you were still around after all these years. If I remember my Persian history, you weren't a bad despot as despots go.

[yarddog]

I was just reading your info page, very interesting.

I wonder if you remember a University of Virginia football player, I think he was a running back, they called the "Persian Panther" or was it "Persian Tiger"?, I know it wasn't Persian Kitten.

I was living in Virginia when he escaped from Iran and returned to the U.S with his family.