Wine with your 100LL?

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:31:14 +0000 (UTC), Paul Tomblin wrote:

So? Is anybody forcing you to buy it?

no. but I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

Surely that's not as bad as a few years back when it was discovered that
HUGE amounts of Austrian wine being sold over here had anti-freeze added
to make it taste sweeter?

this wasn't a good thing happening (and it wasn't a regular product, it was
illegal). but IMHO the producers and the govt learned how to avoid future
"mishaps".

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I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

You mean, like French wines, where they don't tell you the grape
varieties from which the wine is made, but go on about the place it's made?

Jose
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Jose wrote:
You mean, like French wines, where they don't tell you the grape
varieties from which the wine is made, but go on about the place it's made?

Jose

that's because French wines are usually not made with just one
grape varieties, and aficionados are supposed to know anyway;
in any case, the criterion used to earn a given 'appellation'
are very strict and well documented.

--Sylvain

You mean, like French wines, where they don't tell you the grape varieties from which the wine is made, but go on about the place it's made?

Jose


that's because French wines are usually not made with just one
grape varieties, and aficionados are supposed to know anyway;
in any case, the criterion used to earn a given 'appellation'
are very strict and well documented.

Yes, I know. But the French do not label their wines with the
"ingredients". We're supposed to "know". So why can't the Europeans
just "know" whatever it is they claim we don't disclose?

Jose
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Jose wrote:
that's because French wines are usually not made with just one
grape varieties, and aficionados are supposed to know anyway;
in any case, the criterion used to earn a given 'appellation'
are very strict and well documented.


Yes, I know. But the French do not label their wines with the
"ingredients". We're supposed to "know". So why can't the Europeans
just "know" whatever it is they claim we don't disclose?


because it is not documented anywhere, unlike the requirements
for a given appellation that French wine makes must follow.

--Sylvain

because it is not documented anywhere, unlike the requirements
for a given appellation that French wine makes must follow.

Sure it's documented... just not in law.

Jose
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"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
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So? Is anybody forcing you to buy it?

no. but I can't make a decision because it is not marked. The product
should have a declaration about the ingredients.

What decision?

First of all, wine makers have been blending wines since there was such a
thing as wine makers. It's quite common, and I doubt American wine
producers are the only ones doing it.

Secondly, who cares if the wine is blended? What you care about is how the
wine tastes. It's not like there's some health hazard to blended wines or
anything. The label isn't required to tell you whether you'll like the wine
or not, and blending is irrelevant to the question of whether you'll like
the taste.

Pete