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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 4:48:50 PM   
musedir

 

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 5:01:24 PM   
Eddie

 

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Status: offline 		This is apropos of nothing, but I thought I'd post a picture of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland.



The picture appears to have been taken in December orJanuary. As a lad of 12 years of age, back in 1972, I was up at the top of Cairngorm (the highest peak in the range) in early August, and everything was frozen even then. The Ice Age still hasn't ended on the higher Scottish peaks.....

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 5:39:56 PM   
musedir

 

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Status: offline 		Eddie, did you get to Ben Neve.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 5:46:16 PM   
Eddie

 

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Status: offline 		I assume you mean Ben Nevis. We drove past it, but did not climb it.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 5:59:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Old Doug

Right you are, Dave. And damn, y'all been s l a c k i n.


Welcome back, Old Doug!

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/2/2016 6:46:43 PM   
Eddie

 

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Status: offline 		Tom--here's a photo of Ben Nevis.......


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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 8/3/2016 4:31:35 AM   
musedir

 

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Status: offline 		Yes, Ben Nevis. The view from on high is fabulous.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/1/2016 8:43:01 PM   
Franklin 10

 

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Status: offline 		Glass of glenfiddich: serviceable but overrated (imho).
(large) glass of 2009 Bunchgrass CS, ditto.

Doing a "favor" for a partner by taking his call last Thursday and getting payback tonight, which makes a 5 day weekend, making it to Northern Michigan with the dogs after an easy drive, grilled steaks and accoutrement with my (very hungry) 19 y/o son, Northern Lights and the Milky Way and a "grab something to fit the moment" glass of 2012 Proper Syrah: this moment is so precious that its price cannot be determined.

"Alone" because he's gone down to thhe beachside park to work on his skateboard tricks.

Hope you all have a great Labor Day Weekend.


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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/1/2016 11:34:29 PM   
PinotPhile

 

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Status: offline 		I understand there are nice wineries to visit in Michigan. One current IN resident I know just told me last week that MI wines trump IN wines. No experience to have an opinion. But maybe you will have an opportunity to explore....

Enjoy the weekend. Hope you have great weather. Certainly better than in January......

Cheers!

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/6/2016 10:06:09 AM   
champagneinhand

 

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Status: offline 		Gad a 2015 Provence rose a few days back after completing a lot of housekeeping activity. I don't know whether it combined with prior inhalation of soft scrub fumes but it left me a wreck, and I usually can hold a lot of wine quite well after drinking it over a few hours. Perhaps this keeps me away from Rose' more than it should. All Grenache too, I should have stuck with a more mouvedre based wine, but I hurriedly picked up the bottle as I was a bit rushed in my local this past Friday evening.

-1 for Grenache heavy wine once more. I have just lost the taste for it, but it was very fragrant, a positive.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/9/2016 9:19:27 PM   
fingers

 

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Status: offline 		Those that know me will swear I'm lying, but tonight was the first time I've consumed a whole 750ml bottle of bubbly alone. Well, I wasn't alone. Dr. B was here too, but I did drink the whole bottle. The muse was a $20 Cremant de Bourgogne. Perfectly serviceable and would make a great Sunday brunch alternative to the Korbels and Wilson Creeks that seem to be the norm.

Thread proticol insinuates that this is the point where I should wax poetic and profound, a la Doug, to contribute to the general salience, integrity, motivation, enlightenment, levity, and overall good vibe of the place. Well, after three long days away from home base and slugging down this Brut in a matter of minutes, that ain't happenin'. I'm going to be lucky enough to get this out without my usual iPad typos. Then again, that could very likely mean I need to drink a little more. That's probably a good bet..... but I'd still rather hear from OD. Or anyone else, so inclined.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 5:22:23 AM   
dontime

 

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Status: offline 		Nice and short and to the point Bob. Well done!

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 5:47:20 AM   
musedir

 

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Status: offline 		Outstanding stream of consciousness Bob. Very Kerouac-esque. In spirit and action.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 6:55:24 AM   
fingers

 

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Status: offline 		In the light of sobriety this morning, my main observation is that if I weren't so self-deprecating, I would be totally unbearable

'tis the weekend. Good chance of others <poke:Doug> to contribute here.



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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 7:03:41 AM   
Eddie

 

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Status: offline 		Doug seems to have been pretty scarce of late. Someone else should volunteer to fill his shoes.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 11:06:39 AM   
racerchris

 

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Status: offline 		I nearly posted last night, but I got too drunk to even keep my laptop on my lap.
Pulled the cork on a 2010 Chateau Cote Montpezat at 6pm, and after setting a pot on the stove to boil some beans I poured a glass of wine to have with an appetizer.
Before 7 I went back to the kitchen, poured a second glass - the first had been pretty good - and began preparing a batch of my chile.
Shortly after 8 o'clock I was finished cooking and I had also finished a third glass - still improving from the first two.
It was at that point, pouring a 4th glass, that I noticed the pours had been generous and the bottle only provided 4 glasses.
If this had been a traditional Bordeaux I might have been fine, but this is modern styled with lots of fruit up front and a 14.5% Abv.
Easy drinking, and easy to get drunk.


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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/10/2016 8:10:10 PM   
musedir

 

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So I opened this bottle just about the time Auburn licked off to Arkansas State. Now 3-1/2 hours later I'm realizing I'm joining this august group of imbibers and scribes. From the sheer exhilaration of Nova's soaring descent into Jodan-Hare Stadium (is there a more dramatic game tradition than a soaring Eagle flying around a stadium of 100,000 people and landing directly onto the carrion that compels the bird's journey?).

Well with 6 minutes left and Auburn leading 51-14, I can relax and focus on the wine. Even though 2013 is a mite young, it's opened up nicely after three hours and the fruit, bouquet and follow through is completely satisfying.

I know we have a number of football fans on the forum...not counting Yossarian's take on the term. Some winners, some loses... but such youthful energy to win and advance their cause. Time enough for the other stuff in a few years when instant millionaires become professional fodder.

So at times like this I too miss the poignant prose of our own Old Doug. On the Road is best appreciated by a southern rebel behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler as he rolls on to another high voltage calamity on the left coast or in the Great Lakes neighborhood. Such a poet warrior. Doug, this glass is to you.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/11/2016 7:29:37 AM   
fingers

 

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Status: offline 		Nice one, Tom. And don't forget to save that bottle.... kept by the nightstand, it makes an excellent weapon to defend against Loachapoka monsters and zombies.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/11/2016 8:20:56 AM   
pclin

 

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Status: offline 		Eddie, those are very nice pictures of Scotland. I have only visited Scotland once but love that place. Hopefully one of my kids will go to university there so I can have excuse to visit often.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/11/2016 8:09:19 PM   
Wine_Strategies

 

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Status: offline 		I drank a bottle alone tonight. 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva with a great pork tenderloin and ricotta dish. Then some $45/bottle Riesling. Then some Scotch. Where's OD when you need him???

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/11/2016 11:44:43 PM   
pclin

 

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I drank a bottle alone tonight. 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva with a great pork tenderloin and ricotta dish. Then some $45/bottle Riesling. Then some Scotch. Where's OD when you need him???



Hey, that's more than one bottle!


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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/12/2016 6:55:59 PM   
mclancy10006

 

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Status: offline 		Well maybe somebody else showed up after Chianti

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/12/2016 7:06:42 PM   
BornToRhone

 

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ORIGINAL: pclin


quote:

ORIGINAL: Wine_Strategies

I drank a bottle alone tonight. 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva with a great pork tenderloin and ricotta dish. Then some $45/bottle Riesling. Then some Scotch. Where's OD when you need him???


Hey, that's more than one bottle!

Need a new thread for 2 bottles consumed alone!

< Message edited by BornToRhone -- 9/12/2016 7:07:10 PM >

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/12/2016 7:37:40 PM   
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I drank a bottle alone tonight. 2010 Chianti Classico Riserva with a great pork tenderloin and ricotta dish. Then some $45/bottle Riesling. Then some Scotch. Where's OD when you need him???



My new idol....

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/26/2016 7:50:53 PM   
musedir

 

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Such a fine wine for 90 minutes of I'm not sure of what I saw. Opinion deleted before typing.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/27/2016 5:59:02 PM   
Old Doug

 

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Status: offline 		I miss my friends. It's an odd thing - I haven't seen any of you more than 3 or 4 times, and some of you I've never seen, like Fingers, Eddie, Franklin, Ibetian...

Do you hear them - they are flapping in the near distance, the tattered gonfalons of a city on a hill, a wholly imaginary thing, otherwise I'm just sitting motionless except for the slight rocking motion due to the beating of my heart. How "steady state" do we have to be? We obviously have different amplitudes in our lives, more or less highs and lows, so to speak, and what is the best way to have it?

How important is joy, without the capacity to suffer, and would it even exist? The cost involved in hitting some of the highs - is it worth it? Excesses of food and drink - doubtless they whittle away at our life expectancy, but looking back I wouldn't give many of them up. They are part of me; certain baseborn sentiments I cannot surrender. I have slowed down, though, in the day-to-day and month-over-month proceedings, and probably just as well.

For many of us, just as we get to really know how life is, life is about done with us. To take a relatively sour look at it, life is going from one mistake to another, with (hopefully) substantial periods of time in-between. I've had, and am having, a good life, yet looking back there's a lot of mistakes, the broken windlestraws of my existence.

Okay, yes - I felt like using some archaic words today.

The contemplation of things is more and more pleasurable to me as I get older. I can sit and stare into infinity, and the view is good, and people have been doing it for tens of thousands of years.

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/27/2016 8:30:32 PM   
dontime

 

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/27/2016 9:11:26 PM   
fingers

 

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/27/2016 11:28:19 PM   
pclin

 

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RE: Postings after 1 whole bottle consumed alone - 9/28/2016 2:43:47 AM   
Eddie

 

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I have only meet one person from this forum face to face.


I can say the same (although I would have substituted "met" for "meet"). Tom and Dr. M were kind enough to host us one night, and the experience was thoroughly pleasant.

Doug, in consolation of our remove, may I suggest that you acquire a copy of Elizabeth Fuller's translation of Eckermann's Conversations With Goethe (1839). This great work, a classic of Western Literature, is now, sadly, considered obscure, but it is a feast for the mind and heart. The translator's preface, alone, merits whatever exertions you must endure to obtain it. As delightful as it is, it might provoke in you, as it has in me, a certain melancholy; one cannot read even a paragraph of it, without being reminded of the dissipation, moral and intellectual, that aggrieves our age. But I receive the same upliftment from it, as from Life of Johnson.

Other translations will not suffice; insist on Fuller's.

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