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Skriven 2007-12-23 02:28:03 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Dave Drum
Ärende: WINE CHOICES?  21222
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 -=> Quoting Dave Drum to Glen Jamieson <=-

 GJ> JW> DD> Mateus [...] The rose was about on a par with Wild Irish
 GJ>Rose.  
 
 GJ>When MLoo last visited here he guffawed when he saw a bottle of
 GJ>Mateus Rose sitting on the shelf.  I used to drink it occasionally,
 GJ>chilled, with SE Asian food when I lived in tropical Lae 30+ years
 GJ>ago.  Several months ago I saw a bottle on sale, and bought it, just
 GJ>for the memory. All I need is to find someone who will help me drink
 GJ>it this summer.

 DD> You Adelaidehoos have a built-in, resident wine disposal facility out
 DD> in  Torrensville, do you not?

Yes; alternatively I could pour it down the sink.  I am waiting,
however, for someone who would appreciate it for itself.  Dunno who.
 
 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.
 GJ>The pink colour of the box should have warned me.  The wine is pink
 GJ>and 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!

 DD> I never, ever, ever buy a "white" version of something that is
 DD> naturally  a red wine. Not white Shiraz, not white Zinfandel, not white
 DD> anything  else. Of course, I am not a huge fan of colourless wines.  

Most of those "white" wines are sweet, and intended for plying to
innocent young ladies, at least in USA.  The Western Australian
Houghton White Burgundy, however, is a dry wine.  The last time I drank
that was when a nun I was dining with in a Chinese restaurant produced
a bottle from her skirts and plonked it on the table for our
consumption.  It went well with the food.

The Clegget white Cabernet Sauvignon I brought to the last picnic
wasn't too bad, although you could say that that cheated by being made
from white grapes.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Pears and Blue Cheese
 Categories: Main dish, Cheese, Fruit
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      4    Pears,
           -peeled, halved & cored.]
      2    French champagne, glasses of
           -OR- white burgundy.]
    1/2    Lemon,
           -juice of.]
     50 g  Blue vein cheese
      2 tb Sour cream
           Salt
           Pepper
           Paprika
           ===TO SERVE=================
           Lettuce
           Basil, fresh leaves
           Onion rings
 
  Peel, halve and core the pears and marinate in the 2 glasses of wine,
  and lemon juice for 30 minutes.
  
  Mash the blue vein cheese, sour cream and season with salt and pepper.
  
  Drain the pears, fill centres with cheese mixture, dust with paprika.
  
  Serve on a bed of lettuce leaves with fresh basil and onion rings.
  
  from THE EPICUREAN Jan/Feb 1982 typed by KEVIN JCJD SYMONS From:
  Kevin Jcjd Symons               Date: 28 Dec 97
 
MMMMM
 

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