Taking some wine to friends house.

[O S]

On 20/03/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Arthur wrote:


It was Sheldon. Don't expect it to make sense.

A few years ago my wife bought me a bottle of vintage port. It was
wonderful stuff. I confess to being naive about vintage port. I had no
idea there would be so much dregs in the bottom of the bottle. I would
estimate that 10-15% of the volume of the bottle was dregs. Rude surprise.

[No name?]

On 21/03/2011 12:59 PM, Steve Pope wrote:

Perhaps it has more to do with the bastardization of the language than
being a fun part. Think about the origins of the word....vin... wine.
amd age...age.... age of the wine. It has been adapted by people to
apply to things like cars and music and most us us understand that it
refers to thins of a particular year or era. Since the term originated
in the wine business, a vintage wine should still reflect the specific
requirements of a vintage wine. It can't just be old.

[sonicsarah]

On 3/20/2011 12:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
Is any harm done by filtering out the dregs?

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"Paul Arthur" wrote

The OP was talking about a wine from Chile though. Most of their stuff is
modest priced filtered wine. Nothing to decant.

[turtleseeker]

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I separate the types of wines that benefit from "breathing" into
two categories.

1. Good/great wines that are made even better by giving them some air

2. Wines with at least some amount of off flavor(s) that can
alleviated from breathing

There are many low cost wines (like Chilean) that fit into category two


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Re: [email protected]

Dan Abel wrote:


Completely agreed. The the word "vintage" has several different meanings,
just like thousands of other words in the English language, and care must be
taken to avoid ambiguity.

Semantically, the way we sort out words which have multiple meanings is
through the obvious context in which it is used. One needs to be careful of
using such words if there is the possibility of ambiguity created by a less
obvious context known to the speaker but not inherently obvious to the
listener. In this case that less obvious context intended by the writer is
the use of vintage to mean antique or very old wine. Unfortunately the word
"vintage" in the context of a discussion of wine already has a different
long standing and familiar meaning where the two words hook together in
context to form a standard term used to describe wine, the year of harvest.
Using the word in that context but expecting it to be understood as some
different meaning of the word is quite ambiguous and likely to be
misunderstood. And, unless a date appears on the bottle, it is just
incorrect.

The word "vintage" by itself does not mean "old". Vintage can also define a
period of time, of origin, or refer to a specific age range, and should
always be used with such a qualifier. However it does derive from the latin
"vinum" meaning "wine".

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vintage

[imsosirius]

wrote:

There is never a reason to decant any wine, if there is sediment just
don't shake it up... oh, I see now... yoose decant into a fancy
schmancy bottle so your guests won't know you're serving
Boone's Farm. Maybe I'll buy some $50 bottle of vodka so I can decant
too! LOL-LOL

What a buncha phony baloney pretentious schmucks!

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

[Tanashious D]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:48:13 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:


That only proves that when home made and home bottled each bottle is
different... even winerys produce the occasional bad bottle.

[nubico]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:39:54 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:


Liar.

[shina s]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:40:09 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
wrote:


WTF are "fine wines"... are those like the emperor's new clothes?

A "Fine Wine" is no more definitive than a "Fine Piece of Ass".