CoOp.

When I see ‘Winemakers Selection’ on a bottle of wine I usually sneer, let out a laboured sigh and move along to the next bottle of interest. This wine’s position on the clearance rack with a price tag of £3 encouraged me to take a risk.

That’ll teach me.

Grapes sourced from the Maule Valley. Or should that be mauled valley? The grapes were clearly chewed over by a rabid dog before fermentation. What the dog swallowed was thrown in at a later date. Under ripe elderberry, pine resin and Colgate.

Before you have a pop at the rabid dog.

Have you tried this wine on day two. Could it be softer and more velvety with some nice fruit....eh ?

And what about the drinking window ?

Perhaps for six minutes after bottling this was the world's finest example of a cabernet sauvignon oozing lovely blackcurrant and fresh mint

Could you not of got yourself to Santiago airport and then a taxi to the Maule Valley during this six minute window.

And have you tried this wine with chedder ?

Leave the dog alone !

Bastard !

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

So there

BTW, I never use the word 'Velvety'. Nor should you.

...or to paraphrase...

1 = true, 0= false

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.

BTW I never use the word velvety. Nor should you

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I know. I usually use words like creamy and buttery but I live in a world of mostly non wine drinkers who get their wine terms from the Delia Smith book of Wine Terms for Morons. A wine with a pleasant mouth feel is ' velvety ' . I try and argue but it's me against the world. It gets to the point where it's either agree with them or set fire to them.

And there's only so many times you can set fire to people before they start getting pissed off.

So I give in and say ' how lovely and velvety '.......where are you when I need you, Parsnip boy.

I know I shouldn't use the term here but I sometimes forget that i'm in sophisticated company. Read too many Bacchus posts in one go and it's very easy to forget where you are....

Anyway...I shan't use velvety again.

You've saved me.

I shall roast a parsnip in your honour.......and wash it down with a honeyed, velvety pint of Stella.

"Come home to a real fire" - Meibion Glyndwr Wines

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Oh dear....shall I tip toe through the tulips ? Or duck, and avoid the shrapnel

tip toe away quietly ....shhh .....

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Duncan

How queer, where's me washboard?

No need to duck, Dunc. I was just being ironic, or trying to.

That Fast Show link is a classic example of irony. The joke is at the expense of the audience laughing with the hopeless comic when all he is doing is lazily repeating lame catchphrases over and over again. But that is exactly what the Fast Show was about ...catchphrases.

' Suits you, sir '..........' Sorchio '

Not sure what it has to do with me though. I've only called GK, Parsnip boy 374 times.

That show scarred me for life.

Everytime I hear jazz music I think of Louis Balfour, nnnniiiicccceee.....

~G~ / GK

I missed The Fast Show, kinda sounds if it would've done me some good.
Might get the ole cogs whiring

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Duncan

****** Aquarius - explains a lot. (Me too ! )
Having something special tonight?

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Spoilt at home........

A small pheasant from Waitrose for one, a treat from my dear Misses, with 2/3rds of a bottle of bargain Château Grivière 2001 Médoc cru bourgeois from Majestic. a third gone.....Just checking bottle variance last night - (smile)

Sorry Ba, for you that sounds a bit decadent.

total cost before gas & electric and trimings - just under 10 litres of petrol. Bus Pass next.

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Enjoy your day D.

Ernest Shackleton was also born this day.