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What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux.
under $25
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$25
  2% (1)
$50
  13% (6)
$75
  8% (4)
$100
  23% (11)
$150
  21% (10)
$200
  4% (2)
$300
  6% (3)
$400
  6% (3)
$500+
  10% (5)


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/20/2008 7:57:14 PM   
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I'm not sure I would crack open a 1st Growth (if I had any) for anyone other than close family because I agree - it can be perceieved as being arrogant or vulgar or a show off.



Yes, one would never want to be perceived as a wine wanker   I have only been to 2 dinners where the host served a 1st Growth, and in both instances the said wine was announced in advance to prevent any fainting at the table.  I have difficulty containing myself when great wines are sprung upon me without fair warning.  It is embarrasing to my wife...

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/20/2008 9:42:30 PM   
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I'm not sure I would crack open a 1st Growth (if I had any) for anyone other than close family because I agree - it can be perceieved as being arrogant or vulgar or a show off.



Paul,

If we shall ever meet in close proximity to your cellar feel free to consider me "close family."

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/20/2008 10:37:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		As a single guy, I lack spousal constraints.  My wine friends have become my family - I would never (well, almost never   ) drink a 1st growth without them.  My true family thinks I was insane when I built my wine cellar, and couldn't understand why I wasn't investing all that money!  In reference to another thread, when I drink alone it is to lay to rest my "dying soldiers," only rarely popping the cork on the real gems ... I am blessed with giving friends who agree with Craig that sharing these great wines is the true joy (anyone tearing up yet?). 

TC

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 12:35:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: grafstrb

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ORIGINAL: pjaines

I'm not sure I would crack open a 1st Growth (if I had any) for anyone other than close family because I agree - it can be perceieved as being arrogant or vulgar or a show off.



Paul,

If we shall ever meet in close proximity to your cellar feel free to consider me "close family."


Brian,

You work on the assumption that I actually have some 1st growth.  I dont.  But if I did I'd do an exchange with you.  You come to London and we have a kebab, a fight at a football match then a glass from my bottle - then we go LA and have botox injection, liposuction, a boob job and then a glass from your bottle of 1st growth.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 1:38:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pjaines

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ORIGINAL: grafstrb

quote:

ORIGINAL: pjaines

I'm not sure I would crack open a 1st Growth (if I had any) for anyone other than close family because I agree - it can be perceieved as being arrogant or vulgar or a show off.



Paul,

If we shall ever meet in close proximity to your cellar feel free to consider me "close family."


Brian,

You work on the assumption that I actually have some 1st growth.  I dont.  But if I did I'd do an exchange with you.  You come to London and we have a kebab, a fight at a football match then a glass from my bottle - then we go LA and have botox injection, liposuction, a boob job and then a glass from your bottle of 1st growth.


you forgot about our fight over what "football" really is ... and getting shot at by gang-bangin' thugs while we suck smog at 15km/hr on the L.A. freeways.  I'm glad you're not hoping for collagen injections in your lips ... my doctor always tells me I can't have any scotch, beer or wine for 3 days following my injections ... which is why i get my smackers taken care of on the black market these days ... it's amazing the sorts of services a guy can treat himself to in Compton ...

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 1:42:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Brian - the debate on what football actually is could be an interesting one. 

In favour of the English argument.  1.  We use the foot.  2.  In involves a ball.

In favour of the American argument.  1.  Erm, no feet involved.  2.  Its not a ball.



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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 1:43:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think we will have more areas for agreement about wine.  Best avoid football.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 6:03:44 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pjaines

I think we will have more areas for agreement about wine.  Best avoid football.


Too true.
L. 
Still* a Spurs (Tottenham) supporter!
Might switch to the Rays, although personally I preferred Devil Rays (the Devil apparently isn't PC in US)


* worst league record ever - played 8, lost 6, won none!  And we've got the Gunners soon ................
we will soon bypass the even more dismal record set by Southampton a decade ago ;)

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 7:17:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Colonel - I think Southampton's record was for a club that stayed up, I can only assume you haven't given up hope just yet and even though it's been fun to watch Tottenham propping up the table it's now becoming a concern we won't have a North London derby to gloat over next season.

Paul - Thanks for the assurances around next month, shame it wasn't in France - I'd prefer to pass on your sister in-law (does your wife know you discuss her preferences on internet forums?) but would help in the liberation!

Wrighty

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 7:36:38 AM   
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You are a happy man and so right!
I ONLY drink my best wines with my best (wine)friends.
My closest family does not appreciate good wine. Not even my wife.
I share, my friends share, and we are happy like children when we do.
Read my “signature”. It tells it all!
And, my best bottles, it does not even come into mind to drink them all by myself,

Cheers,
Bill.


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 8:26:49 AM   
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Watching Spurs is like watching England (except they win ocassionally) - we have the ball most of the time, play lovely touches and lose ignominiously!
L.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/21/2008 11:49:51 AM   
grafstrb

 

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ORIGINAL: pjaines

I think we will have more areas for agreement about wine.  Best avoid football.


yes...wise move I do think

... good thing "cricket" isn't called "baseball" ... then we'd have a real argument on our hands

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 12:55:16 AM   
pjaines

 

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Status: offline 		Definition of cricket for the Americans......

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
  Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when
  he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's
  out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in
  and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get
  those coming in, out.  Sometimes you get men still in
  and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who
  are out try to get him out,  and  when he is out he goes
  in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two
  men called umpires who stay all out the time and  they
  decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides
  have been in and all the men have been given out, and
  both sides have been out twice after  all the  men have
  been in, including those who are not out, that is the
  end of the game!"


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 2:03:48 AM   
Colonel Lawrence

 

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Status: offline 		Add to that - it goes on for five days, rains on the last, and the result is a draw.
We had to be the ones to invented it - so British.................................................

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 2:24:51 AM   
pjaines

 

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 6:54:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Don't knock cricket - it's a perfect pass time to watch with a bottle of wine!

And Colonel, you must have been watching a different England team to me - up until our current Renaissance I thought they run around like headless chickens chasing the ball like kids in a playground AND worry about what they're wearing and who the girlfriend is like school kids!

Let's hope Capello sticks at it.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:02:58 AM   
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Where does the tea come in and out?

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:15:31 AM   
pjaines

 

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Status: offline 		Oh yeah, I forgot about that.  They really do break for lunch and tea.

Lunch it at 1pm, tea at 4pm (of course).  I'm not sure if it is cream scones and Earl Grey from a teapot though.  If not, it should be.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:21:27 AM   
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Definition of cricket for the Americans......

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when
he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's
out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in
and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get
those coming in, out.  Sometimes you get men still in
and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who
are out try to get him out,  and  when he is out he goes
in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two
men called umpires who stay all out the time and  they
decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides
have been in and all the men have been given out, and
both sides have been out twice after  all the  men have
been in, including those who are not out, that is the
end of the game!"



I think I am the only American who actually enjoys watching Cricket (to an extent...these games can last FOREVER) with an ice cold beer when I am visiting friends in Australia (obviously it's never televised here).  And I can categorically say that this is the funniest...and most accurate...explanation of the game.

Although, you neglected to discuss the part where the bowler pitches his balls at the batsman to get him out. 

This is all beginning to sounds a bit homo-erotic.




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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:24:23 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pjaines

Definition of cricket for the Americans......

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when
he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's
out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in
and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get
those coming in, out.  Sometimes you get men still in
and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who
are out try to get him out,  and  when he is out he goes
in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two
men called umpires who stay all out the time and  they
decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides
have been in and all the men have been given out, and
both sides have been out twice after  all the  men have
been in, including those who are not out, that is the
end of the game!"



 Hilarious!

 An Indian friend of mine taught me cricket while we were back in high school ... I roughly remember how it's played.  I think I understand everything except the two bolded phrases.  Very nicely written!

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:31:36 AM   
pjaines

 

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Status: offline 		As much as I would like to take credit for writing the above description of cricket, it was not me.  Not sure who originally wrote it.

However, to bring this back to wine, there is no better way to spend an afternoon that slumped in a deck chair sipping a nice glass of wine with a hamper of food while idly casting your eye over the never-ending game going on in front of you.

It is basically an excuse to get drunk.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:34:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: pjaines

As much as I would like to take credit for writing the above description of cricket, it was not me.  Not sure who originally wrote it.

However, to bring this back to wine, there is no better way to spend an afternoon that slumped in a deck chair sipping a nice glass of wine with a hamper of food while idly casting your eye over the never-ending game going on in front of you.

It is basically an excuse to get drunk.


Isn't this the point of all professional sports?


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:36:37 AM   
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I think I am the only American who actually enjoys watching Cricket




Believe it or not Jer, there is a cricket league here in Tustin!  Might be an interesting hobby but I refuse to wear white and tarnish my evil persona.  My favorite part of watching in OZ or Kiwiland was the great time the announcers have talking about evereything but the game! 

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:41:02 AM   
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Believe it or not Jer, there is a cricket league here in Tustin!  Might be an interesting hobby but I refuse to wear white and tarnish my evil persona.  My favorite part of watching in OZ or Kiwiland was the great time the announcers have talking about evereything but the game! 


No way!  I might just have to go down and watch sometime.

Yes, there is that....but you have to give them credit for being able to talk about absolutely everything but the game for 4 or 5 hours.  It's quite impressive.  


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:42:26 AM   
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I think you mean 4 or 5 days.

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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:46:50 AM   
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4 or 5 hours !!!!

I think you mean 4 or 5 days.


Most of the games that I have watched had a time limit rule in place where if it goes on for 3 hours or whatever that the game is over and whoever is leading wins...

It's been awhile, perhaps I am imagining things...


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RE: What's your acceptable price for a great Bordeaux. - 10/22/2008 9:51:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		There are generally 3 main formats.

Test Matches (international level) - these last for up to 5 days.
One Day Matches - last, erm, all day.
20/20 matches - tend to last about 3 hours.  This is a new invention for the more attention-span-challenged members of society.  Or people with a real life.

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