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Skriven 2006-09-03 11:45:00 av Robert E Starr JR (7988.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: My presidential pick
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message 
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>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 23:49:40 -0400, Carl wrote
> (in article <b6ydnTAXtolIzWfZnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
>>
>> "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
>> news:0001HW.C11FC1D30227C9ABF0284530@news.verizon.net...
>>>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 22:39:38 -0400, Carl wrote
>>> (in article <h8-dnRUV5Y_x3WfZnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@comcast.com>):
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:0001HW.C11FB3630224674EF0407530@news.verizon.net...
>>>>>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:36:20 -0400, Bill wrote
>>>>> (in article <1157247380.918026.59360@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>):
>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> GovERNment.  To govern.  I govern, you govern.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> just a momentary lapse of reason here. If you have an executive from
>>>>>> McDonald's elected to office, does that give you <shudder> McGovern? 
>>>>>> <<
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had just enough wine that that's really funny.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What kind of wine, and how much was that exactly? :)  <<
>>>
>>> Oy, I'm embarrassed to share this.  We had a pool party a few weekends
>>> ago,
>>> and people brought an absurd abundance of food and drink.  So much that 
>>> I
>>> brought the things that were still sealed (chicken franks, rolls, 
>>> barbecue
>>> sauce, gallons of soda) to a shelter the following Monday.  Anyway,
>>> besides
>>> many fine _bottles_ of wine, we ended up with a few _boxes_ of wine. 
>>> The
>>> merlot was opened, and the box didn't seem very stable, so I was all set
>>> to
>>> throw out the wine entirely...but my thrifty husband poured it into all
>>> the
>>> empty bottles from the party.  So we have box merlot residing in bottles
>>> that
>>> make it seem like it's a much nicer vintage than it actually is.  And we
>>> have
>>> a LOT of it.  So I've been doing my part helping to lower the surplus. 
>>> I
>>> guess it was a couple of large glasses is all, but I'm a fairly cheap
>>> date.
>>>> -)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Just curious, what are your favorite types of wine? <<
>
> I don't have a serious wine palate.  I like very dry reds (a good merlot
> particularly, and there's an Australian syrrah I buy sometimes), and 
> crisp,
> dry whites like rieslings.
>
> But I'm not above drinking a sweet, May wine from time to time, especially
> from one of our local places, the New Hope Winery.
>
> Now, single malt whisky: that's something I could talk about 
> knowledgeably!
>
> Amy
>

In my youth (seemingly a couple of centuries ago) I studied wines quite a 
bit and had the opportunity to work as/with a wine buyer as a summer job. 
That was a great summer job.

I tend prefer wines to harder liquor, except that near Christmas I do make a 
large batch of glogg every year (not the wimpy stuff that you read a recipe 
for in the newspaper every year that calls for ("a red wine").  Nope, I 
start with a good port and add everclear to give it a kick.   My dad makes 
it too and we compare batches.

Just to pick a nit or two (how often do I get a chance to pick a nit with 
you?)   Merlot is not considered a very dry red.  It is in fact often used 
as a moderating wine and often blended into younger cabs to make them 
drinkable sooner by taking off the tannic edge.  The dryness of a red wine 
comes from tannin from the skin.  This mellows with age and on a good wine 
will fill it with body and substance.  That takes time (which is why some 
very good reds are put in a cellar for a long time).  Merlot will soften a 
cab and let you drink it much sooner.  You lose some of the body, but most 
people don't get to drink a good 25 year old cab anyway.

Rieslings are also generally considered a sweeter grape.  In fact *all* 
great German wines are Rieslings, and in German wines are in fact rated by 
their level of sweetness; with the sweetest wines being better, all the way 
up to a Trockenberenauslese.  Even the driest mit predikat (Kabinet) wine is 
sweeter than many whites.

Carl
                                                                         
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