Wine with your 100LL?

"Tom Conner" wrote in message news:ec6rf.2555

I think the issue was that the wine was in a box. .....

Wine in a box...... wine with a screw cap....... won't age properly in a
box...... plastic liner might leave a taste....

OY! How many people go to their local booze shop, buy a $12 bottle of
wine, and leave it in their basement for 7 years? Please!! Wine in a box
is clearly meant for rapid consumption, (at the party tonight, with dinner
tomorrow) and it doesn't amount to a hoot in hell what its packaged in -- it
likely was aged in the same vat. I think part of the resistance among
certain groups is that with economies and efficiencies in distribution as
well as production, decent quality wine will become more easily affordable
to the "lower classes", thus diluting the exclusivity. On the other hand,
to some palates, it may make a real difference. Remember, though, we're
all bozos on this bus! Jay (and I) like the juice of rotting grain, while
others prefer the juice of rotting fruit. Can anyone truly explain this?

Merry Christmas!

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:41:53 +0100, Martin Hotze
wrote:

:On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:46:53 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:
:
:We seldom have wine in the house, but for parties those fridge-sized boxes
:are a marvelous invention.
:
:*brrrrr*
:
:we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some of the
:US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the label) ... how
:disgusting.

The French have been doing it forever, they just don't admit it in
public. Ginestet, GVG, Cordier, CVBG, Dulong and Mestrezat &
Domaines - they all paid big fines a few years ago.

I've got no problem with that at all. I suspect a lot of socialization
goes on in the hangers after flying. I'm just new to this aviation
scene, and haven't developed a good sense of how different folks do
their thing at the airport. Me? I just go there to get access to my
wings. Or work on it. I have to drive 12 miles home, so I haven't
even considered drinking at the airport. My wife, on the other hand,
would just as soon drink before a flight. (She doesn't even like
flying commercial, so it is a special occasion when she flys in my spam
can)
tom

No doubt, judging from some of the stuff in there.
tom

Nope, I fly a homebuilt Savannah. It's the ugly bird that takes off in
about 200 feet.
tom

I don't think a bottle of wine has lasted more than three hours after
opening, never mind 3 months. 8^)
tom

There's a controversy about using cork or screwcaps now too; it looks
like screwcaps will win this one as cork is getting scarce and has its
problems.

And the "cork" is no longer actually cork, it is some synthetic material.

"Martin Hotze" wrote in message
...
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

"Jose" wrote

I'd like to see champaigne in a box.

I would too, but only from a good distance. ;-)
--
Jim (Can you say boom?) in NC

*brrrrr*

we here in the EU now have to allow US wine to be imported ... some
of the US producers mix wine (and don't have to declare it on the
label) ... how disgusting.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine? ;^)