Not much to comment on here...I like hockey, of course, but well......
So...........
(...other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?)
Lady....enough with the beer....switch to wine. Same buzz, less filling. Besides, you can then speak to things like...."hints of peach.....edgy oakness...long on the tongue (one of my favorites)...a sense more than taste of apple, raccoon, and leather....(made that one up)...actually, John Cleese did the raccoon bit, I think. All those wonderfully imagined and proclaimed nuances derived from a single glass of something we have difficulty pronouncing....as in, "Shaahdunay", "me's on bowtie", "lawyer vail", "cabernett soovigin", "Merrlott", not to mention "Chat Oh Lah tower", and like that.
How lacking in substance is this site that so leads me to ramble on like this....I've got to get a life, I think.
Anyway....I have had the lovely privelege of living in upstate New York....Finger Lakes area....noted for excellent white wines. And I have visited California and its world-class reds. And have enjoyed five visits to France, and their fabled wine regions.
All this has led me to think I know a bit about wine....key word "think". Actually I have yet to appreciate the eclectic nuances the so-called experts discern. I know I like "dry", not "sweet"....prefer red to white, but drink mostly white because that's what my wife likes best (so that's what I buy).
We knows who has the penis in that family. Sorry Chaz, gotta bust your balls (ummmmm....twat) on this one. Randy hasn't been around for me to ball bust (though his are real small) so I gotta take it out on someone.
chaz, you and I are of the same stock. Upstate NY is where I grew up, always lived, still here. Don't know if that's good or bad! Just the way it is. And I love wine too, mostly because my mother tells me it's the world's most natural tranquilizer. Calms the nerves!
Later Chaz,
Free
Are you saying you guys are all inbred in upstate NY? I mean of the same stock? Hmmmm.....Is upstate NY the new Kentucky? I reckon that wouldn't be a good thing. **Where's my damn spitoon**
But I have trouble finding the "hint of melon" (you can replace "melon" with any other non-grape fruit), "nutty" 'ness, but I am catching the meaning of "edgy oak" of "oaky", and "leggy" (just an indication of sweetness).
Anyway, love the whole wine dynamic...like golf, so many play at it, poorly, but the 19th hole finds them all to be exceptional commentators.
Hope Glumbert comes up with substance soon....rambling is fun only for a little while.
Well....Celtics are on...close game...."talk" to you again another time.
Chaz, I always thought it was just me. I never once caught a hint of pear in Pinot Grigio, or detected any oaky flavors in any wine at all. It all just tastes like fermented grapes to me. A friend did tell me once about "fingers", which, if I remember correctly, is an indication of a good wine. If you swirl it around the glass and it leaves tracks or something, it's supposed to be good. I like red best, semi-sweet, not too dry. But the whites, no sweet, has to be dry. I would rather drink mule piss than white zifandel, if I got that spelling wrong, it's because I hate the stuff. Well, maybe mule piss is a little extreme, but you know what I mean!
**Docuhebag dressed up in his best zoot suit with tails, hair slicked back, and reeks of Old Spice (ok, maybe not that bad), and bottle of cheap White Zinfadel in hand**
**knocks on door**
**Door swings open**
Docuhe : Miss FTB.
FTB: Yes?
Douche:*Extends bottle of wine* I heard you like White Zinfadel, and by the way, all the ladies say I'm hung like a mule. Care to drink from the source?
What is it with you all and wine, glumbertians? I mean... maybe it's an acquired taste or whatever. But I'm more of a beer connoisseur.
So I think I tried Aussie wine when I was in Australia...but I was drunk already at the time so I don't remember the taste. Anyone like Aussie wine? Is it distinct or are the bottles just fun to look at?
ohhhh...they are 14th out of 15th in their conference.........That has to chap some Canadian ass up there in Toronto.
BTW, have you seen the Red Wings. 70 points. The next contender in their conference is at 55 points......They'll probably blow it in the playoffs. Ohh well, I can talk smack now.
Almost forgot. The train video posted today is almost like the Maple Leafs playing. Except the kid would have got hit and been a mile long smear on the train tracks.
About 5 or 6 years ago, my wife and I met some friends of ours in that area. And sure enough, they said "We'll take you on a tour of the wineries". I figured it wasn't gonna be such a big deal, sight-seeing at best. So we get on the road, and start going from winery to winery. Now here's the thing: they actually give you samples (sometimes two or three glasses of wine!) at these places. By the time we got to our sixth or seventh winery, I was FUCKIN' HAMMERED, and had yet to even spend a dime. Without realizing it, I was starting to talk loudly, whisper naughty things in my wife's ear, swearing in various languages and generally creating a spectacle. The wifey says she was torn between laughing and feeling embarrased, but our friends were killoing themselves laughing. At one point, I took my wife by the hand, and lead her to the balcony at one of these wineries, which overlooked the vineyard at the back.
"Sweety"?, I says.
"What?", she asks.
I make an expansive gesture with my arm at the surrounding vineyard.
"Someday, all this will be yours, *hiccup*".
However, once a started talking like Pee-Wee Herman, they all dragged me outta there. Enough was enough.
Canuck, can you believe I live here and never been? Loving wine the way I do? What's the matter with me? It's on my list of things to do, just put it at the top! I'll have to find a designated driver though.
Your wife sounds like a very tolerant woman. LOL! Or a very lucky one!
I will Canuck, absolutely. I'll have to look into it though, about when the wine tasting occurs. It must be a seasonal thing, right? Probably in the spring or summer? Here I'm asking you! I live closer than you do! I should know these things. I feel like someone who lives an hour from the Grand Canyon, and never made the effort to see it! But I am definately going to look it up, and taste the wine!
I'm lucky though, wine doesn't give me a headache, although I've heard so many people say they can't drink it because of bad headaches. (Poor babies). But maybe a huge overindulgance would bring one on. I'll bring some tylenol, just in case.
Hi Free! I was up there last year at Thanksgiving and did the wine tour. The fields were bare but all the wineries have wine shops with all kinds of wine, of course, and gifts and what-not for sale. I recommend going with a couple of friends. It's fun, sometimes there are small receptions with munchies, everyone's in a good mood, and you learn a lot about the specific wines you are drinking 'cause the sales reps really know thier stuff. I lost steam after 4 hours of 'tasting', but it was a great way to spend the day. Take a camera!
Hi Lady, it does sound like fun! I'll be making plans soon! Talk a couple of my friends into giving it a whirl. We all live around here, and none of us have ever done it. Sounds like a plan!
Take it easy.
Free
Hey Canuck, had a similar experience at a convention targeting Hotel and Restaurant owners. They had samples of wine, beer and spirits everywhere (I tried some blue coloured whiskey from the Ukraine and that was the curtain call for me). But boy, it was fun.
Joe Coulombe, the founder of Trader Joe's, may have an explanation. He opines that most Americans today drink very young California red wines, and more of it since the medical benefits have been accepted. Some of the substances which cause hangovers become inert with age, so Coulombe believes that drinking older wines will reduce exposure to both hangovers and wine headaches.
Right now it looks like the cause may be prostaglandins, hormone like substances that may be responsible for the production of some types of pain and inflammation. A new study showed a distinct decrease in headaches in subjects prone to RWH (red wine headache) when given prostaglandin inhibitors. In some non-controlled studies it looks like taking aspirin or ibuprofen reduces prostaglandin production and may control or reduce RWH.
Hope this helps the "wine drinking peeps" avoid that headache, while tanking up and making interesting comments! (cuz the vids sure suck!)
Miter, how you been skippy? You been being careful lately? LOL! Good to talk to you, and are you one of those that suffer those RWH? I hope not. I'm so glad I'm not.
I'll tell you a secret. Today's my birthday, so maybe I'll be indulging a little later. Ha! Not a secret anymore! I'm sure all of you can figure out how old I am. Silly me. Putting it right in my screen name. What was I thinking??? LOL
And I'll bet you're a hot '62 model!!! Enjoy your day, I hope you do exactly what you want. And, as you slide down the bannister of life, may all the splinters be pointing the same way. Cheers girl!
Thanks for the good wishes guys! I'll probably need em. Exactly what I want Lady? Well, thanks for the thought! It's a good one. I would have to do a little traveling for it though! I'll probably have to settle for just getting blasted on wine.
Love this video its hilarious two thumbs up to the guy who got on the jumbotron as for the FINGER LAKES REGION,BEUTIFUL ive done the whol UPSTATE NY tour lake placid darien lake finger lakes maybe with so many of us living close we should have a GLUMBERT WINE TASTING MEET AND GREET or for the trouble make glumbertians MEET AND BEAT LOL
Didn't realize this thread was longish. Freetobe, in case you don't rehash old stuff for new stuff......I left you a note closer to the top. Geez, how articulate am I (seeping with sarcasm).
good thing for the fratboy there's a big thick piece of lexan in front of him.... i recently saw a tape of an old bruins/rangers game..1980's the bruins defenseman snapped jumped over the glass and beat the shit out of some guys who were taunting him.... ...rough justice .... terry orielly
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