Wine with your 100LL?

"john smith" wrote:

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.

Only sometimes. Every bottle of wine I have right now has a real cork.

--
Dan

"The future has actually been here for a while, it's just not readily
available to everyone."
- some guy at MIT

John Gaquin wrote:

Can anyone truly explain this?

Not I. My preference is for unrotten fruit juices. But I do like my milk
rotten, so I suppose I'm not one to judge laugh.

I used to visit Hamburg a couple of times a year. The first time I went, I
could not locate "coffee to go". When I managed to explain what I wanted
clearly, the revulsion over putting coffee in gasp paper cups was plain
to see.

More recently (and this is a few years back, since I stopped these regular
then), this cultural divide had apparently dissolved with "coffee to take
with" rather widely available.

My addiction and I were grateful.

Coffee in a box, though, confused me. When I first saw it, I thought it a
terrific idea! I only later learned that the idea is to share it with
others, driving out of individual cups. Oh, well.

- Andrew

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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"Andrew Gideon" wrote

Coffee in a box, though, confused me. When I first saw it, I thought it a
terrific idea! I only later learned that the idea is to share it with
others, driving out of individual cups. Oh, well.

Yep, their are some different ideas for things we all take for granted.

I was in Ecuador a few years back, and was on a small road trip on the Pan
American Highway. By the way, you may have one idea about that road, but it
is really a wide patch of varying surfaces. Sometimes minimal blacktop,
sometimes gravel, sometimes a deep pothole, all away across the width of the
road, necessitating traversing the hole at 1 MPH.... or pay the doctor.

Anyway, we stopped for some gas, a pee, and a drink. We finally got it
across what we wanted, and the lady took the coke, got a plastic sandwich
baggy, opened it up and poured the drink into the bag. She stuck a straw in
it, and twisted it around the straw.

Our jaws dropped, but there it was.

It seems as though the people selling the coke have to pay deposit on the
bottles, and most people want the nickel back, right then, so that is how
they get the drink, and the nickel back for the bottle. Different, that is
for sure!
--
Jim in NC

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

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 21:15:34 -0500, Andrew Gideon wrote:

More recently (and this is a few years back, since I stopped these regular
then), this cultural divide had apparently dissolved with "coffee to take
with" rather widely available.

yeah. our culture here is going south (better: gong west)

:-/

#m
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If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene I

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:30:56 -0500, John Gaquin wrote:

Wine in a box
is clearly meant for rapid consumption,

wine is never 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.

it is a matter of style.

#m
--
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene I

"Martin Hotze" wrote in message

wine is never meant for rapid consumption

Never meant to be drunk fast; but used fairly soon after purchase, yes.
But, you already realized what I meant.


(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.

it is a matter of style.

Precisely my earlier point. Style -- real or imagined.

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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