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1 posted on 03/29/2014 7:20:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The king of wines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciR7Fq2tqJ0


2 posted on 03/29/2014 7:32:11 PM PDT by AlexW
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Chilean Carménère. Amazing.
Argentine Malbec. Amazing.


3 posted on 03/29/2014 7:35:33 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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1. Can of Welch’s concentrate and water.
2. 1 cup sugar
3. 1 pkg. yeast - your choice. As a youth, I preferred bread yeast.
4. A gallon jug.
5. A balloon to fit over the jug’s neck.
6. Wait for the balloon to inflate, and then deflate.
7. Enjoy!


4 posted on 03/29/2014 7:36:58 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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I get mine in a box...er, a bag in a box. Description also fits my mother in law. But she ain’t 12% Alc.


6 posted on 03/29/2014 7:38:11 PM PDT by onedoug
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I’m a Pinot Grigio mommy, especially after this past week!


12 posted on 03/29/2014 7:41:40 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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I’m not as thunk as you drink I am!


14 posted on 03/29/2014 7:43:00 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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WPLJ is hard to beat!
23 posted on 03/29/2014 7:51:24 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I am NOT drinking any F***ING Merlot!!!
28 posted on 03/29/2014 8:39:27 PM PDT by Rodamala
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Bota Box.


29 posted on 03/29/2014 8:39:34 PM PDT by Oratam
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Here is the real stuff...peasants
33 posted on 03/29/2014 9:54:11 PM PDT by xp38
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Yet another article purporting to explain wine to the common man but after reading the article, I'm as oblivious as ever. It seems that every wine article and wine book out there uses obscure "insider" language to describe flavors. All this talk about tannins and "secondary notes of cedar" and "pungent petrol" et al.

"Taste predominantly of blackcurrant" might mean something to me if I actually knew what a blackcurrant tasted like.

Then you have all those talk about French towns that have funny characters sitting on top of certain letters in their names. I'd show you an example here but I can't find the characters on my keyboard.

Wait a minute, maybe "cut and paste" will work... Côte-Rôtie - there, did it! Now how do you pronounce it. Kotay-Rotay? Or more like Coat-Rodie? Those French words make my eyes glaze over.

It's almost like these article are intended to make the rest of us feel like unsophisticated rubes. By the way, the same kind of highfalutin approach is taken with classical music. Has there ever been an article about classical music that made sense to anybody who did not do six years at the Julliard School?

Don't get me wrong, I'm a regular wine drinker and I love classical music (especially Bach, Mozart and Beethoven). However, I had to acquire my tastes for wine and classical music pretty much on my own because I can't make heads or tails out of articles like this.

35 posted on 03/30/2014 2:23:12 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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