Pop A Cork - Wine

Oh yes, mighty, but very minor, Nostrodamus, it is frightening how well you know me, even worse you are allowing yourself to make moronic comments on subject you don't know anything about.

You know nothing about alcohol but you post on this thread ? Classic trolling

Tell you what - suggest 6 wines for us to try, American is fine, otherwise go back to the designated troll threads

Not my favourite specimen of humanity, but even fanatical tyrants can have good taste in wine.

Gevrey-Chambertin is of course cheaper than Le Chambertin and there's never a bad bottle.

In 199-whatever when the French had their bicentennial of their murderous revolution, there was the official wine of that, a Marsannay with a tricolour on the bottle. It was pleasant enough and we drank plenty however if you tasted it next to a good Marsannay the difference leapt out at you right away.

Something to watch out for with French wines

Only Chystus served better wines after worse ones. But he did it miraculously. All others do the opposite.

If Jesus ran a wine merchants (a missed opportunity for Him, given certain skills), he'd serve tiny amounts to taste and always put a bad one in the mix so the better ones stand out.

He was different.....there was a reason his tribe disowned him.

It's true that we buy some products for their one-off appearance. Everyone wants something unique, and wine is no exception. Faustino No. 1 is one such wine. A beautiful bottle that immediately catches the eye, partly because of the portrait of Rembrandt. I assume the master painted it before drinking too much Rioja Gr. Reserva. I don't need to mention that the bottles are numbered. Ours is number 44632 out of 240632 bottles from the 2008 vintage. It is obvious that such a bottle costs slightly more than "normal" bottles of Rioja from Spain. Enough wine for the Weekend.🤭

Wonderful Polish wines from the Zielona Góra region, several times more expensive than good European wines. I'll write more about them when the time comes. For now, they're in the cellar.

I was at the Jasło wine festival on Sunday. There were some pretty decent wines there but everything was at least double what similar quality wines from New Zealand and Australia cost.

Why such exotic wines?

For part of Europe, those places are less exotic than Italy.

Better wines on the whole as well.

I don't think those are even vaguely exotic these days. You'll find both in every Biedronka in Poland. As for why I like them, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Shiraz account for abput 90% of the wine I drink in Poland.

Why not, the flight to Australia or New Zealand takes about as long as to the moon.

A major wine producer, and on the whole better wines than you'd find at the same price from mainland Europe.

That's true, but when it comes to blind tastings, they are clearly not on the same level as California wines. There's no doubt about it.

We don't see as many of those in Europe; not much reason to and the better ones tend to be sold locally.

Plenty of excellent Chilean wines though.

Some notes from a wine tasting. The person who wrote them down was with her father. They are his words and it's refreshing to see the notes in proper English.

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It seems he liked the gin best, 9/10. He probably wasn't a great wine connoisseur.

😄. Good one.

@AntV
Tha dunt speak reyt ovver theer.

Tha cu'nt dooit even if thi' 'ad monk on.

Is that old or futuristic English?

My fave wine tasting note is: not bothered about it. Dint go wit crisps.

Past, present and future. Though exposure to radio and TV have softened it in bigger towns. Some still say thee and that (and I grew up using it). If you watch a clip from the film Kęs you can hear it. Yorkshire dialect (one of them anyway, since there are differences from place to place). He doesn't seem much fussed for wine.


Mine is: redder 'n t' last 'in. Nowt up wi that.

That's been one of my recent laments: how forms of mass communication have made culture more homogeneous. Here, in America, I could travel 100 miles in any direction and hear differences in speech and expressions. It's been flattened out. You still have some of that, but it's not as pronounced. Go to Georgia and 7 in 10 will sound like they are from Columbus Ohio.

My job demands that I speak with people from all over the the US-90% sound the same. I find it sad.

Wine, doesn't appear to be his thing. I love the genuineness of his remarks.

Same with us. Some 'dominant' accents spread however in bigger cities people are beginning to sound like each other.

Traditions too, they're going, since Netflix etc is less effort and more seductive. I see this in Poland as well.

One of my colleagues is originally from Nigeria (or could be Uganda), she said everyone speaks English because there are so many dialects they can't understand one another in their parent language. The joke is every family has a dialect. She said that the dialects are even starting to go away over there.

In tribal cultures it really is like that. Each tribe has its ways and outsiders aren't familiar with them.

Having said that, I've met some Nigerians (students at a not very good university, in their mid twenties, from wealthy families) and I could barely understand what they were saying in English.

If you want to rile up a group of British people(especially ones from different places north of London) just say breadcake, bread rolls or baps or whatever. The names of the same things change every 20 miles or so and the arguments about what they should be called can get quite fierce.

By the way, they're called breadcakes. Everything else is wrong.

Not a gin fan either, that's a terrible gin. Bottled by a wine company using commercial spirit. Anyone selling a gin that's 37.5% is far more interested in money than gin.

Talking of gin, the Warsaw whiskey and gin festival is 10 and 11 October. Highly recommended.

If it had less alcohol, it wouldn't be called gin. At least not in the EU.

@Alien.

In fact it would. Gin and vodka in the EU can be 37.5 %

If you see it at that strength in the UK, it is about excise duty thresholds.


We were in that trading organisation for years and there was always 37.5% stuff on the shelves. In fact, availability of it 8ncreased during the EU period.

Makes no difference really since you always dilute it rather than drink it neat (and all gin/vodka is diluted down with water anyway, usually to 40%)

That's exactly what I meant.