That is a real punch into the face of "la Grande Nation". Although I usually prefer French wines (as a German I do not have that much reason to boycott the frogs as the average American) to most other stuff, I already found out that California has some really outstanding wines.
If you Californians have the same nice girls to share a good glass of Cabernet like the French I could become a real fan of your wines.
Nunc est bibendum!
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To: Atlantic Bridge
Lord! Every wine in France is grown on American root stock which replaced French Phylloxera infested stock. The plant are very similar.
To: Atlantic Bridge
They do. And, I have one for proof. Well, I have both, the wine and the California girl.
(She's 1/2 French also, but we don't talk about that.)
3 posted on
05/27/2006 7:37:53 AM PDT by
BigBlueJon
(Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas to bed.......Jack Bauer wears George W pajamas.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
California schadenfreude!
4 posted on
05/27/2006 7:39:41 AM PDT by
GVnana
(Former Alias: GVgirl)
To: Atlantic Bridge
"(At least) We will always have (Islamic terrorists) in Paris"
5 posted on
05/27/2006 7:40:49 AM PDT by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: NautiNurse
6 posted on
05/27/2006 7:41:08 AM PDT by
MacDorcha
(In Theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
California has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world (geological and wine-sipping babes). But Oregon and Washington also have some of the best wines the US has to offer.
I still give the Germans the nod for best lager beers though.
7 posted on
05/27/2006 7:42:07 AM PDT by
pissant
To: Atlantic Bridge
I worked with a number of Frenchmen both here and in France. One, when visiting here wouldn't even taste an American wine. He didn't appreciate my comments about him not wanting to become addicted. His boss, who was said to be a real connoisseur, thought some American wines very good and always drank them when here.
8 posted on
05/27/2006 7:42:38 AM PDT by
FreePaul
To: Atlantic Bridge
If you Californians have the same nice girls Well, if there's anywhere in America you'd find girls as furry as the French, Cali would be the place to look. ;-)
9 posted on
05/27/2006 7:42:51 AM PDT by
rattrap
To: Atlantic Bridge
I'm not a wine connoisseur, but it seems to me that everyone is making wine these days. It would be interesting to see who comes out on top if this test were done with a variety of wines from different regions of the world.
10 posted on
05/27/2006 7:43:08 AM PDT by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Atlantic Bridge
My taste for California wines and my distaste as an American for the French in general, and as an SC Trojan for Notre Dame in particular, is exemplified by these results. To paraphrase that great American, Carson Palmer, I hate Notre Dame even more than I hate UCLA.
Fight On!
14 posted on
05/27/2006 8:07:07 AM PDT by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God is, and (2) God is good?)
To: Atlantic Bridge
We have lots of them as long as IQ isn't a sticking point for you...
15 posted on
05/27/2006 8:07:26 AM PDT by
ECM
(Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
California wine grapes were planted by Italians and have been looked after by Mexicans. Even a $7 bottle of California wine can be great.
To: nutmeg
....blind taste test between French and Californian wines have handed the laurels to California for a second time. The French wine industry gnashes its teeth.
***
I love it!
18 posted on
05/27/2006 8:24:48 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
I don't know. What do you think Miles?
19 posted on
05/27/2006 8:25:37 AM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: Atlantic Bridge
I guess the Germans have a genetic predisposition to regard the round heeled French girls as "desirable"...Many of today's "French" ladies must still carry WWI and WWII German genes.
"Easy" and "Desirable" must be interchangeable...
I can understand that the German's were impressed by how easily the French girls threw their feet into the air -- it was simply their reaction to the chance of sleeping with a WINNER for a change..... Nothing more....
The Americans were greeted the same way, and had sloppy seconds...
Semper Fi
21 posted on
05/27/2006 8:36:33 AM PDT by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
Oops, they did it again. Judges in a rematch of a 1976 blind taste test between French and Californian wines have handed the laurels to California for a second time. The French wine industry gnashes its teeth.
And if they didn't have American Vitis labrusca rootstock, their wine industry wouldn't exist. Of course, if they hadn't gotten phylloxera from imported American rootstocks to begin with, they wouldn't have been in trouble.
22 posted on
05/27/2006 8:37:20 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: Atlantic Bridge
California women are among the most beautiful in the world, not least because the climate makes it possible to exercise outdoors year-round.
23 posted on
05/27/2006 8:39:33 AM PDT by
Fairview
To: Atlantic Bridge
I go through about 2 or 3 bottles of wine a month. Not quite a connoisseur but I know good wine from bad. There is no doubt that the United States produces many of the finest wines in the world. California by itself would be the world superpower of wine but there are many fine wines in other parts of the country too. I have some Virginia wines that are very good and everytime I'm down that way, I stop at wineries to stock up such as the one near the Natural Bridge on I-81. North Carolina has some good wines too.
In fact, I wouldn't even put France second to the U.S. I would rather have wines from Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Portugal and even Argentina and Chile before I touch a French wine. About the only French wine I ever buy these days is the annual crop of Beaujolis Noveau (intended to be consumed fresh and not to be aged) that comes out each year around Thanksgiving and only because it is a holiday tradition and my family looks for it at the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations.
27 posted on
05/27/2006 8:46:08 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
(I think Randy Travis must be paying his bills on home computer by now)
To: Atlantic Bridge
Pride goeth before a fall. The Frogs have ruined their wine market in the U. S. because of their politics. Their wines were never all that superior to other countries. France enjoyed a great reputation, much exaggerated, but that has come to an end. Like everything else in a socialist nation, innovation and technology lags behind.
Like Cuban cigars, much of the taste has been lost and better cigars now are produced in other countries since Castro and the New York Times took over Cuba. Absence makes the taste grow weaker.
To: Atlantic Bridge
I don't (hic) know if (hic) I agree withthat (hic). I'll havetohav (hic) a few more (hic) gl-glgl-glasses (hic) to tell.
35 posted on
05/27/2006 9:44:11 AM PDT by
combat_boots
(Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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