4.16.2004
Cheese with your...
Beer is brewed.
Whiskey is distilled.
Wine is...made?
Is there any word other than fermented or made? I seriously thought "vint" was a word but apparently it is not. Ben? OED?
Had a rather fun private lesson with resident genius student (no really, he's a physicist of a field so narrow I can't tell you what it is because someone might guess his identity). Anyway, we got to use the sentence:
...Or was that somebody else's life?
Sadly (for some I suppose, actually gladly for me) my knowledge of wine is limited to putting those two words together: "Mouton" + "Rothschild". The outcome means nothing to me. Nor did I know how to pronounce the latter till I looked it up to see if I'm crazy.
Evidently not crazy.
I do know that there are far too many bottles of crummy Beaujolais in this country. This is not a complaint about Japan (liar). It's more a complaint about Beaujolais. I will say though that I just can't dig why people are always chilling reds.
By the way...can anyone help me figure out what's wrong with this search?
Aw heck, my ignorance is showing again. Bother. But bear in mind, this is coming from a girl who likes dirty vodka martinis. Sacrilege! (At least I knew enough not to say a 1976 Mouton!)
Whiskey is distilled.
Wine is...made?
Is there any word other than fermented or made? I seriously thought "vint" was a word but apparently it is not. Ben? OED?
Had a rather fun private lesson with resident genius student (no really, he's a physicist of a field so narrow I can't tell you what it is because someone might guess his identity). Anyway, we got to use the sentence:
It's a 1972 Mouton. It was made by the Rothschild vineyard. (should have added "of course")I have no idea what I'm talking about (of course). But apparently I picked something up all those years ago when I should have been doing calculus. Ah the naked wine-hazy days of Risk and grilled steak I fondly refer to as high-school...
...Or was that somebody else's life?
Sadly (for some I suppose, actually gladly for me) my knowledge of wine is limited to putting those two words together: "Mouton" + "Rothschild". The outcome means nothing to me. Nor did I know how to pronounce the latter till I looked it up to see if I'm crazy.
Evidently not crazy.
I do know that there are far too many bottles of crummy Beaujolais in this country. This is not a complaint about Japan (liar). It's more a complaint about Beaujolais. I will say though that I just can't dig why people are always chilling reds.
By the way...can anyone help me figure out what's wrong with this search?
Aw heck, my ignorance is showing again. Bother. But bear in mind, this is coming from a girl who likes dirty vodka martinis. Sacrilege! (At least I knew enough not to say a 1976 Mouton!)
