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Skriven 2007-11-25 19:34:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: WINE CHOICES? 475
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 -=> Glen Jamieson said to Dave Drum <=-

 JW> DD> Mateus [...] The rose was about on a par with Wild Irish Rose.
 JW>No way! Not even close. Mateus is light years better than Wild Irish
 JW>Rose. For one thing it's made from real grapes.
 GJ> When MLoo last visited here he guffawed when he saw a bottle of Mateus
 GJ> Rose sitting on the shelf.  I used to drink it occasionally, chilled,
 GJ> with SE Asian food when I lived in tropical Lae 30+ years ago. 

Carol and I were recently sitting in a friend's living room, just
having savored a bottle of Certan de May, and the conversation wended
its way from good wine to memorable wine to memorably bad wine, and
the name Mateus came up, and Jeff got this funny look on his face
and retrieved a minibottle of Mateus from his wine closet. Apparently
it had been a gift - probably in a hotel welcome basket - and he had
kept it for some years just for the hoot value, for which it earned
its keep yet again on that occasion.

 GJ> Several months ago I saw a bottle on sale, and bought it, just for the
 GJ> memory. All I need is to find someone who will help me drink it this
 GJ> summer. BTW, for all you people who crave a bottle, it now comes with
 GJ> the modern screwcap, so will keep a lot better.  Seeing that both

Perhaps you too could keep it for entertainment/shock value/frightening
off unwanted guests.

 GJ> Mateus and most of the world's corks come from Portugal, that indicates
 GJ> that even in that country they are waking up to the fact that screwtops
 GJ> are better and more reliable than corks.

My friend Braus's friend Marco Pagliani used to lay out evidence
to the effect that there was enough cork in the cork farms (which,
as with the vineyards of old, extend into Algeria and Morocco), and
it was decent quality, and the decisions regarding screwtops and
Stelvin screwtops and synthetic corqs have a more economic than an
ecological or practical basis.

 DD> Still, all rose' wines are at least as tasty as Thunderbird.
 DD> Especially  if you have added a TB or two of diced MacIntosh apple to
 DD> the half-pint  fruit jar of T'Bird.
 GJ> I recently made a terrible mistake!  I saw a 4 litre box of Stanley
 GJ> "White Shiraz" and as I had never tried such a thing, I bought it. 

Tsk, tsk. I'm afraid that you were more gullible than usual on
this occasion. Or did you think that someone had taken a rare
mutation and made wine with it and put it into a bulk box?

 GJ> The pink colour of the box should have warned me.  The wine is pink and
 GJ> sweet and fruity, and rather similar to a poor quality White
 GJ> Zinfandel. Now I have to suffer my way through 4 litres of the stuff! 

I know a potential way of getting rid of it, although the donee
would berate you loudly as he disposed of the evidence.

Wine Cooler
cat: booze
servings: 1

collins glass, filled with ice

1/2 fill with burgundy or rose wine

1/2 fill with 7-up

add flavoring (peach schnapps, cherry or blackberry brandy)

cherry garnish

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