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Millions of dollars worth of wines have been destroyed in New Orleans
Ledger-Enquirer ^
| 10/24/05
| Travis Tritten
Posted on 10/25/2005 11:12:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Private collectors, restaurants and distributors are preparing to destroy much of their stock.
Sure, the highly principled ones. What about the unscrupulous? Plenty of them around. Just a heads up, everybody: Be careful ordering expensive wine in New Orleans' eateries!
And be expecially wary of the online wine auction sites. The providence of wine sold there has always been a problem for wine buyers, but now . . . Don't think I'll be buying any, that's for sure!
To: quantim
Hi, quantim!... Thought this might be of interest to the ping list.
To: LibWhacker
Oh, the horror! Merlot Democrats are offended by this!
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:14:56 AM PDT
by
Kenton
(Tagline for rent)
To: LibWhacker
Ted Kennedy is deeply saddened...
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:16:19 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(I am beginning to think conservatism is buried somewhere under New Orleans' mud...)
To: LibWhacker
Providence = Provenance... *blush*
To: LibWhacker
Billions of dollars worth of WHINES have been created by the hurricane as well.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:18:34 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
To: LibWhacker
We also had a similar tragedy here in the San Francisco Bay area. A wine storage facility in an old military warehouse (think concrete walls) had an old client they had asked to clear out his wine and leave. He was in a lot of trouble for providing great wine at social events, wine he was to be keeping in storage for collectors; it appears he was one of the only visitors the day a fire occurred causing $100millions of loses. They believe it was arson and much like this the ATF came in and declared all of the wine unuseable.
To: LibWhacker
"Hello ... hic! I'm from quality con-- ... quality con-- I'm from the Testing Department. Hic! We think that your wine ... that your wine might be contamin-- ... contamin-- ... might be bad. We are here ... hic! ... to see if it's drinkable. Have ya got a corkscrew?"
To: LibWhacker
Holy cow, more cases of sobriety might be breaking out then.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:19:05 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: LibWhacker
This should send a ripple through the restaurant community.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:25:44 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: LibWhacker
![](http://www.kn.com.au/photos/uncategorized/looter1_1.jpg)
He's not looting - he's rescuing fine vintage beer.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:29:25 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe next time.)
To: LibWhacker
Geez... all those dead and injured and homeless... and this boob whines about the loss of over-priced grape juice?
To: LibWhacker
The French are deeply saddened.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:34:43 AM PDT
by
neodad
(Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
To: LibWhacker
Just a heads up, everybody: Be careful ordering expensive wine in New Orleans' eateries! If you think you're seasoned enough to order an expensive bottle of wine, you better know if that bottle is corked, cooked, or improperly stored. Buyer Beware!
And be especially wary of the online wine auction sites.
Regardless of any catastrophe, one would be foolish to buy wine online from someone they didn't know. And again, if you do and don't know the difference, too bad.
I don't mean to be cruel, but there are a lot of "wine snobs" out there that know nothing about wine and deserve what they get when acting pompous.
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:35:53 AM PDT
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
To: LibWhacker
The truth is you can recycle wine just pour it into an old bath tub and jump in with a couple necked girls - then re-bottle it under the label of passion brew red or white -
"Passion Brew is all you need to dooo...."
In fact I think they should dump all of it one big VAT pour in about 7% grain then re-cork it with vintage of NOLA 2005, The slogan could be:
"Dam it! Where the hell are da troops?"
"NOLA 2005 - The drink'n man's drink'n Wine"
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:42:19 AM PDT
by
kentj
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:43:49 AM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
To: numberonepal
...one would be foolish to buy wine online from someone they didn't know. Nonsense! Of course, you should try to determine if the seller is a good one or not, but you don't have to know him, lol. Go to winecommune.com or winebid.com and tell those people they're foolish. You'll be the one walking away feeling rather foolish for uttering such sweeping flapdoodle.
Can I tell when a wine is corked, or cooked? You betcha. Sheesh!
To: SF Republican; LibWhacker; FOG724
Not to worry! It was only French wine anyways! CA will be more than happy to grow some more of superior quality anyways!!! Not to worry!!!
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posted on
10/25/2005 11:45:01 AM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
To: KarlInOhio
How that gentleman (hehehe) has alluded the late night TV circuit is beyond me. He's the William Hung of looters!
To: N. Theknow; All
You said Ripple :)
In a related note, Chuckie Shumer thinks this is a knife in the back of the restaurant community.
The Jerk: I want some of your fresh wine, not that old stuff!
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