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2014-09-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Connoisseurs? Seven Out of 10 French 'Know Little about Wine'

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Because for good wine you have to go to Italy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-04 05:50|| 2014-09-04 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I had a (former) client who was a wine snob. I did some work for him, he paid me with a few bottles, giving me the standard wine snob description for each bottle while cradling every bottle like he was holding a newborn. It took every ounce of my willpower not to punch him in the face, hogtie the SOB and throw him in his trunk.

Posted by Raj 2014-09-04 09:03|| 2014-09-04 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 It took every ounce of my willpower not to punch him in the face, hogtie the SOB and throw him in his trunk....

Stay thirsty my friends.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-04 09:13|| 2014-09-04 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The French know everything they need to know about wine and that is:

"Only French wines atre any good. Everything else is sh.t". At least that is what the French media tell them. Then when you point them at how wines of other countries like United States and Spain are coping international competitions French MSM tell: "These are demagogic wiones tuned to win competitions. They are still sh..t".

However an observation: the standards for telling you know about wine can be different depending on counytries. In a country where there are hundreds of wines you can feel you know little if you only know fifty of them. In, say, Scotland you could think you are an expert if you can distinguish between a white and a red wine.

Posted by JFM 2014-09-04 09:40|| 2014-09-04 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Chien Fou, Nouvelle-Angleterre
quinze, une bonne annee

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-04 09:46|| 2014-09-04 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 My intro to wine was on a business trip to Oz.

My "mentor" told me all I needed to know.

1) Try everything.
2) Drink what you like when you like.
3) Don't drive afterward.

Prosit.

Posted by AlanC 2014-09-04 13:10|| 2014-09-04 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 If I have to use any tools to open the wine, it takes too long; just be careful when you sniff the cap not to pass it too close to your nose, otherwise the metal burr on it will cut.

My default favorite vintage is Wednesday.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-09-04 15:15|| 2014-09-04 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Scottish remark was Carrier JFM.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-04 15:42|| 2014-09-04 15:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Because for good wine you have to go to Italy.

Dunno how often you've been to California but you might wanna try it sometime. We're not all liberal loonies and some of the wine is very good.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-09-04 16:01|| 2014-09-04 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 California wine is good, Napa Valley wine rocks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-04 20:34|| 2014-09-04 20:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Seven out of 10 French are muslims or children?

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-09-04 21:32|| 2014-09-04 21:32|| Front Page Top

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