This is for information to all here whom love the juice of the grape.(wine) Check out a fantastic Video Blogg about wine. www.winelibrarytv.com . It is an absolute Hoot. The host, Gary Vaynerchuk does tastings and scores for several different wines 5 days a week. There are also forums there similar to knots. I guarantee you’ll love it.
They are a very friendly group; not like the back stabbers here!
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You old grouch!
Get some of that vino down yer neck and the back stabbin' will just tickle a bit.
Also, that wine site wants me to download Quicktime, a nasty program written by the devil to take over and mess up one's PC. And where is the praise for Vino Parrafino and Red Death?
Lataxe the Knife
Hey Lataxe!
Just trying to get a rise out of the dead!
Man you've got to get over the paranoia of quick time. I don't have any problems; of course I'm such a computer bumpkin I probably wouldn't even know it, If I did.
How can somebody with a name like Vaynerchuck possibly know anything about wine ? eh eh ...
It's Vaynerchuk! If you watch this kid you'll be peeing your pants. Who cares if he knows wine; he's the best thing I've watched in decades. Pour a glass of red and relax, sit back and enjoy the show! Plus he's a die hard Jets fan in mourning.
Shoot they must know something.............$45,000,000 in sales last year.
Dear Groucho,
C'mon! We'll stab you in the front!
John
J...... Wine has amazing healing powers!!!!!! Stab away........
Dear Grouch,
No... no stabbing fro me. No wine either......... I have no business in this discussion, those days are behind be, one day at a time.Best,John
John..........
?????????????????? Not sure what your message is, however. Life is short, so Live, Love, eat and drink wine!!!!!
Lighten up a little.
These wine bloggers and reviewers (Robert Parker they ain't) have figured out a way to write off the hobby of drinking wine. If the IRS were to audit the hobby losses these guys create they'd have to hire an additional ten thousand agents.
C.......
Pardon me all to hell......... It may not be as sophisticated as R.Parker or WSpec., but it sure is a hell of a lot more down to earth for us common folk. Are the write offs only for the rich and famous???????????? Give us a break. Pass the vino and relax.
Sounds like youv'e got a knot in your shorts..........
J...... Wine has amazing healing powers!!!!!! Did some healing this weekend..!Ron
I have been making wine for years. I make about 24 gallon per year.
At first, I thought "what's this doing on a woodworking forum?" Then I got to thinking about it. Woodworking requires problem solving. So does winemaking. Woodworkers learn that certain joinery is needed in certain applications. Winemakers learn that the quality of their final product can be greatly affected by controlling such things as the pH.
Final analysis, Winemaking and woodworking should be no more distant than second cousins. For me, woodworking and winemaking are first cousins.
"Final analysis, Winemaking and woodworking should be no more distant than second cousins. For me, woodworking and winemaking are first cousins."
I love wine also but you should not enjoy both at the same time.
Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .
Jerrypacman'
Nothing is finer than sitting back with a small glass of Icewine and looking at my latest woodworking project. If that's not drinking while woodworking I don't know what is.. Oh sure the machines may be silent, but while I am staring at wood projects done and to be done while considering things I'd call that work..
(Unless your definition of woodworking requires sweat and movement)
I'll drink to that, a nice Bordeaux will do.
Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans .
Cool.............
I'm a new desciple spreading the gospel for Wine Library TV. Just know there's got to be a lot of wine lovers in this crowd. Just trying to share the fun........ I know there is a lot of BS here. So why not pile on a little more!
I was into the wine making for awhile......not a hobby for the instant gratification type.
The relationship is even closer when you build a wine cellar.
Hey Ron.........
A glass of wine a day keeps the doctor away. Also makes you feel a hell of a lot better than that apple.
Groucho nil : Charley 1
Wasn't it Beppo who said, "Prick 'em from the side then watch them dance & curse"?
Lataxe, a wino enjoying free bread and circuses to go with his tipple.
99.9% of these guys don't know dick about wine or just regurgitate/plagiarize stuff they read written by those who actually do.
Most of them need to go back to drinking Mateus Rose' with their cheese dip and chips.
My pat term for this, and it works in many arenas, is 'value-added regurgitation.'
How much value is actually added is the ultimate question. Usually not much.
Chucky....................
Put the bottle down........you've had enough!
Popping the cork tonight on a Camille Saves Brut 1998 in celebration of... Monday.....
Ciao Chuck !
I celebrate each day for the next day. At least one glass from the fruit of the vine. Damn sure I won't be getting any in the after life!!!!!!!!!
On second though there just may be some, where I'm going!
And I probably shouldn't have been so harsh....
Chuck.............
No problem!! I have a thick hide and been around the block a few times.
A glass of wine a day,along with a few zingers helps keep the blood moving in fine fashion..
"Who likes wine?????????"
Everyone here likes wine. After all, this is Knots, not Breaktime, where the beer drinkers hang out.....
be drinkin'Expert since 10 am.
Groucho, as an old Irish Sr. executive I have been to many high class functions and I am devoted to them for the wine that they served. This was a confrence of the travel directors of the fortune 200, This was back in the 80's but the numbers are still real. The big guys were spending 4 to 6 mill. in rent a car, 300 mill. in air fare and 500 mill in hotel.
There was one dinner that I will never forget. You must realize that we had been wined and dined with the usual best for three days, no complaints. This dinner was put on by a major airline -now defunct-that started with a fowl done over charcole in France, then potted, sliced and served over bib lettuce. (and they flew it in for the dinner)Then a plate of white fish perfectaly done with a white sauce and a mosel that flowed like silver across your tounge. You would never see this wine in a store.
The sorbet of peach and pear was next to clear our palet, then medlions of veal, brown mushroom gravy, tomatoes florentine(baked and stuffed with creamed spinach with shirred potatoes. But the wine was a Mouton Cadet of a priceless vintage. As pedestrian as I may be, I knew then that I loved good wine. Paddy
Oh, BTW, FOR ENTERTAINMENT DURING DINNER WE HAD THE ATLANTA SYMPHONY and Jamican coffee-french pastry (flown in fresh) for dessert. -and cordials-
Paddy,
Now you are writing food porn. As you are also guilty of posting tool porn we must think of you as a pornographer.
Pssst - any postcards of Knapps or Marcous? (Preferably inclusive of a leather apron somewhere in view).
Lataxe the degenerate
Time for a revolution and re-distribution of wealth.
Have no fear; that will happen in a few years when we'll all be drinking "Made In China" wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed your description of the food and the Mosel, but Mouton Cadet is Mouton's non-vintage equivalent to jug wine.pins(Proud owner of and vintner at MaryAnna Vineyards - mostly Cabernet Sauvignon)
Pins, my error, it was a Rothchild (sp) that those who knew were stunned that this wine was served at a big affair. It pains me that I didn't take notes. I shall never forget that evening and wish that I could have wine like that even on occasion, it was lovely. Paddy
BTW, you would be the person to ask. Why do I not enjoy most reds? Too much tannins? Too too dry? No explosive flavor even at $30+ the bottle. Must I be cursed forever for liking only very superior wine, pfh
Paddy me boy! It is Rothschild and it depends on whether its Mouton or Lafite. They are related by blood I think, but maybe centuries apart.Most French reds are not that 'big.' California Cabernet Sauvignon on the other hand are often really 'big,' and all wine drinkers wind up drinking Cabernet Sauvignon (claret to the Brits). What that means is that they are high in alcohol and big fruit because the growing conditions in CA are routinely wonderful year after year. I particularly like those big reds and because of the terrior http://www.terroir-france.com/theclub/meaning.htm) when in France the vintages are limited by the weather situations every year and they varry greatly.Now. As to why you don't like most reds? I don't have a clue. But I can tell you this: The really great wines are best drunk with food. The cheap box wines, and I drink them every day, are not so critical that they require food to be palatable. In other words, a 'jug' wine can be drunk just out of the jug. A truly great, 'big' wine should be approached after having munched on a piece of cheese to cleanse the toungue.In other words you should set up situation for the best wines and drink the jug wines as diet 'coke.'Also know that '$30' a bottle wine is not a factor. Great wine, and I have some in hand, can are over $250 the bottle. Some good CA Cabs can
be had for under $20.pinx
I just love reading all this.
France last year - all said the same: CA was home of the Big Reds. Like your beer huge & bitter? CA is home to those as well. So you've all inspired me to finish my IPA, open a Petit Syrah, gently stroke my GO490, Exactor, ect, and think about finishing the wife's living room. Ahhhh, gotta love creativity, good booze, & power tools.
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