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French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 12:26:49 PM   
grafstrb

 

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Status: offline 		It all smells like a French woman's armpits ... tastes like it too!  Furthermore, you're expected to take out second, third, and fourth mortgages ... maybe sell your first born ... just to afford one stinking bottle of the glop!  Re-donk-u-lus!  Give me an elegant white zin ... you know, a wine that tastes like wine!  Why the eff would I want to drink tree bark, or "moist forrest floor" --- that's for grubs, termites, and worms ... not wine afficionados!  Give me some Spanish Garnacha!  Give me some Aussie shiraz!  Give me some Paso zinfandel but please, please spare me that worthlessly abhorent swill from France!

I need to go find me some Aussie armpits now ...

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 12:32:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Umm, more explanation please...which wine was it?? Latour 1994? 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 12:37:42 PM   
grafstrb

 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 12:44:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Dear Grafstrb,

How refreshing to hear the voice of the parochial. I assume you prefer mooseburgers over foie gras?

Cheers,

John

PS Please convince all of your friends of the value of these opinions. Too many people have been duped all these years. It's time for a change.


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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 12:55:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Gotcha, ya fergot Coats do groan, Liar and Champing. But hey, John, what's wrong with moose?? Natural meat compared to stuffed goose liver! True, it's time to get a real life, back to getting the meat from the woods and the ethanol from whatever ferments in the Finnish winter.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 1:26:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		French wine!!!!  Pah!!!!    We stand here on the white cliffs of Dover glowering (YES GLOWERING WITH INTENT) over the 26 miles of water to ANOTHER WORLD.   A world full of existensial doubt, Gitanes, long lunches, je ne sais quoi, Renault Twingos and your so called "fine wine".  Give me over-cooked roast beef instead of foie gras and pink seared duck breast with a red wine reduction, give me warm, flat beer over Chateau Latour, give me rain over sunshine, give me fat, ugly, Bingo playing English women any day over confident sassy sexy Parisian ladies of class, give me fish and chips over bouillabaise.  Give me English sparkling wine over Dom Perignon......

....oh, better go the French wife is here....

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 1:40:44 PM   
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i need to go to Arby's now ... you think a french woman will be working the register?  Maybe she'll know about the armpit thing ...

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 1:43:16 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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ORIGINAL: grafstrb

It all smells like a French woman's armpits ... tastes like it too!  



Which woman are you referring to? From Bordeaux? Burgundy? Anjou? Lagendoc? Alsac? Normandy? South?
Rhone?



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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 1:47:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		All French women smell of cheese.  Well, my wife does right now - she has just demolished about 29kg of camembert and is now asleep on the sofa.  This isn't what i signed up for when we got married - i was expecting long passionate debates about Satre.  Another reason to embrace ugly English women and not drink their horrible wine.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 1:49:08 PM   
grafstrb

 

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ORIGINAL: Serge Birbrair

quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

It all smells like a French woman's armpits ... tastes like it too!  



Which woman are you referring to? From Bordeaux? Burgundy? Anjou? Lagendoc? Alsac? Normandy? South?
Rhone?




she's a gypsy ... she's been everywhere, but is from nowhere.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 2:19:56 PM   
Blue Shorts

 

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Dear Grafstrb,

How refreshing to hear the voice of the parochial. I assume you prefer mooseburgers over foie gras?

Cheers,

John



That would be "fois moose", I believe.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 6:12:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow interesting rant... can I get some freedom fries with that moose burger.  Hahaha. 
I haven't tried a ton of French wines, but I haven't had a red Rhone wine that I haven't liked.  I can't say that about the other regions and have had the armpit wines you speak of.  What wines have been turning you off?  I find the Cotes de Rhones to be less "stinky and sweaty and dirty."  I will agree with your Spanish and Paso comment... add Italian wines as well. 
No Viva la France!?!? 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 6:15:42 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/17/2008 11:27:21 PM   
grafstrb

 

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ORIGINAL: vinopkm

Wow interesting rant... can I get some freedom fries with that moose burger.  Hahaha. 
I haven't tried a ton of French wines, but I haven't had a red Rhone wine that I haven't liked.  I can't say that about the other regions and have had the armpit wines you speak of.  What wines have been turning you off?  I find the Cotes de Rhones to be less "stinky and sweaty and dirty."  I will agree with your Spanish and Paso comment... add Italian wines as well. 
No Viva la France!?!? 


vinopkm,
since the day has almost come to an end I'll out myself:  check out this link: http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=List  It's a humble collection, but will drive my point home.  I don't give this board nearly enough of my sarcasm...it will come with time.

< Message edited by grafstrb -- 10/17/2008 11:28:02 PM >

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:08:14 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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Status: offline 		Do I detect an invasion of France in the offing?
Only to detect and eliminate their Wines of Mass Derision of course.
Col. L.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:10:45 AM   
pjaines

 

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Status: offline 		Colonel - I suggest a pincer movement - you take Bordeaux - I'll take Burgundy and Wrighty can take the Rhone.

Then as usual the yanks will turn up after most of the fighting is over and drink the wine!!!

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:29:14 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:38:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Both sound like sensible suggestions to me!

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:50:29 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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Status: offline 		Just wondering how many troops I'll need to take Bordeaux.
Probably not as many as Agincourt.
What about a Welshman, a Scot and an Irishman?
L.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 8:23:32 AM   
Hollowine

 

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ORIGINAL: Colonel Lawrence

Just wondering how many troops I'll need to take Bordeaux.
Probably not as many as Agincourt.
What about a Welshman, a Scot and an Irishman?
L.
quote:

Just wondering how many troops I'll need to take Bordeaux.
Probably not as many as Agincourt.
What about a Welshman, a Scot and an Irishman?


How does the expression go...?

Raise one hand if you like the French...Raise two hands if you are French...

"Don't pick a fight with me, I'll drop you faster than a French border crossing!"...(unknown)

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 8:32:15 AM   
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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 8:58:01 AM   
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Give me an elegant white zin ...




Yeah, sure Brian.  As soon as one exists, we'll make sure you get it.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 1:03:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: grafstrb

quote:

ORIGINAL: vinopkm

Wow interesting rant... can I get some freedom fries with that moose burger.  Hahaha. 
I haven't tried a ton of French wines, but I haven't had a red Rhone wine that I haven't liked.  I can't say that about the other regions and have had the armpit wines you speak of.  What wines have been turning you off?  I find the Cotes de Rhones to be less "stinky and sweaty and dirty."  I will agree with your Spanish and Paso comment... add Italian wines as well. 
No Viva la France!?!? 


vinopkm,
since the day has almost come to an end I'll out myself:  check out this link: http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=List  It's a humble collection, but will drive my point home.  I don't give this board nearly enough of my sarcasm...it will come with time.


Well, I clicked on this link, and my initial thoughts were; :”Here’s a man of wealth and taste, he even shares my liking for well-aged Pauillac and St. Estephe….” Ooh look, he’s got the same double magnums and likes the same Champagne…”

“But how come he was as stupid as I was to have ended up with Ducru ’93 and that useless Puligny Montrachet….?”

Then it dawned on me……I was looking at my own cellar…

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 3:39:49 PM   
mjobtx

 

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 4:05:14 PM   
grafstrb

 

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

quote:

ORIGINAL: vinopkm

Wow interesting rant... can I get some freedom fries with that moose burger.  Hahaha. 
I haven't tried a ton of French wines, but I haven't had a red Rhone wine that I haven't liked.  I can't say that about the other regions and have had the armpit wines you speak of.  What wines have been turning you off?  I find the Cotes de Rhones to be less "stinky and sweaty and dirty."  I will agree with your Spanish and Paso comment... add Italian wines as well. 
No Viva la France!?!? 


vinopkm,
since the day has almost come to an end I'll out myself:  check out this link: http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=List  It's a humble collection, but will drive my point home.  I don't give this board nearly enough of my sarcasm...it will come with time.


Well, I clicked on this link, and my initial thoughts were; :”Here’s a man of wealth and taste, he even shares my liking for well-aged Pauillac and St. Estephe….” Ooh look, he’s got the same double magnums and likes the same Champagne…”

“But how come he was as stupid as I was to have ended up with Ducru ’93 and that useless Puligny Montrachet….?”

Then it dawned on me……I was looking at my own cellar…



apparently the link "linked" not to my cellar but instead "my cellar" for the user clicking on the link I posted ... I don't understand why this happened or how to fix it ... whatever.  If you so choose, you can enter my user name in an "user" search on the regular CT page ... that would have the effect I was going for, but would unfortunately be more work for you than I was hoping for ...

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 4:06:09 PM   
grafstrb

 

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ORIGINAL: fingers

quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

Give me an elegant white zin ...




Yeah, sure Brian.  As soon as one exists, we'll make sure you get it.


I'd appreciate that.  I'll even hire security to protect us from the flying pigs.

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 4:41:56 PM   
Serge Birbrair

 

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ORIGINAL: grafstrb

quote:

ORIGINAL: fingers

quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

Give me an elegant white zin ...




Yeah, sure Brian.  As soon as one exists, we'll make sure you get it.


I'd appreciate that.  I'll even hire security to protect us from the flying pigs.


with lipstick on?

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/18/2008 9:42:26 PM   
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apparently the link "linked" not to my cellar but instead "my cellar" for the user clicking on the link I posted ... I don't understand why this happened or how to fix it ... whatever.  If you so choose, you can enter my user name in an "user" search on the regular CT page ... that would have the effect I was going for, but would unfortunately be more work for you than I was hoping for ...


Brian, the link should have your UserID on it: http://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?Table=List&iUserOverride=37818

Having a Buddy list might be corny, since I don't know you guys personally, but it was quick to get into your cellar!

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/19/2008 8:32:41 AM   
pjaines

 

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Status: offline 		Brian - 47 bottles from France?  In the post 911 world that is tantamount to treason in the US isn't it?

Shouldn't it be poured down the gutter?

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RE: French wine sucks! (a nod to Serge) - 10/20/2008 2:25:05 PM   
grafstrb

 

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down to 46 now ... polished-off my lone Burg. this past weekend ... as much as I want to get into Burg., I'm afraid of where that may lead me

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