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Trivial Pursuits => Sports & Leisure => Topic started by: Turbo Ninja on November 18, 2005, 02:32:32 pm
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The 2005 Nouveau was released yesterday. I thought about it all last weekend and then promptly forgot about it until I got to the grocery store last night and found a MARVELOUS TOWER OF DEBOEUF in shiny yellow labels. I was going to buy a red anyways (the Jerry Garcia Cab Sav is actually pretty good and hell of on sale this month) and I already had a take-and-bake baguette and small brick of Gruyere, so I went with the fresh stuff.
I like the taste of it, but I also like the way it's supposed to be consumed without too much thought or consideration or trying to compare the aftertaste to a flower or a tree or rock. It's fresh red wine that tastes like it didn't spend forever in a barrel. Open the bottle. Pour a tall glass. Drink with speed and enthusiasm.
I am fond of this stuff and I'll probably drink ten more bottles before the year is up.
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The 2005 Nouveau was released yesterday.
I like the taste of it, but I also like the way it's supposed to be consumed without too much thought or consideration or trying to compare the aftertaste to a flower or a tree or rock. It's fresh red wine that tastes like it didn't spend forever in a barrel. Open the bottle. Pour a tall glass. Drink with speed and enthusiasm.
So is this like a new name for Ripple or something?
~Paul
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Well, all you people with the weirdo bands you like with the silly names, I saw this post and expected that I was out of the loop about some new arty band that I've never heard of that's already sold out in some way named "Beaujolais Nouveau."
I don't like red wine. It gives me a headache and it's just too full bodied for me. I like me a nice Riesling or Chardonnay. In fact, my favorite right now is a German wine that is so embarassing to me: It is called
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X all in sideways silver letters on the blue bottle. I had tasted nearly every German wine at the local liquor mart, but had avoided that one based on how totally embarassingly silly the label is. I mean, speaking of silly band names, how do you not hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood when you see this wine? How, I ask you? Then a good friend of mine, who happens to be a wine expert at the local LC had me over and when I told her I like German whine, she instantly bought that one for dinner since it is the best selling German wine. It was so good. So very good. And now I buy it all the time. Mmmm good.
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X all in sideways silver letters on the blue bottle.
The operative word here is sideways, but Paul Giamatti was into California Pinot not German Chardonay.
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X all in sideways silver letters on the blue bottle.
The operative word here is sideways, but Paul Giamatti was into California Pinot not German Chardonay.
Y'know, I still haven't seen that movie - everyone tells me, very knowingly "Oh, you would like it, I thought it was okay, but you would like it" like for some reason this is the sort of movie made from people just like me. Which is confusing, because I've had basically the same response from at least three people. Yet when I got the the video rental place, I pick it up, and I read the back, and it sounds so bloodly awful and boring. Men with mid-life issues and a trip to wine country? Snore, snore. I do like Paul Giamatti though - I'm a big fan of American Splendor, but that's 'cause I'm a comicbook geek, more than for any other reason.
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I pick it up, and I read the back, and it sounds so bloodly awful and boring.
It's Hillarious.
~Paul
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how do you not hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood when you see this wine?
I think I love you.
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how do you not hear Frankie Goes to Hollywood when you see this wine?
I think I love you.
So what am I so afraid of?
I'm afraid I'm not so sure of
A love their ain't no cure for!
The Jeopardy guy loves me!
I'll have you know I was screaming "Louis Pasture! Who is Louis Pasture!" at my T.V. screen two days ago.
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WHO THE HELL IS LOUIS PASTURE?!?
Sorry, that's wrong, the correct question is "Who is Louis Pasteur?"
You know that I only tease you for your horrible spelling because I like you, Smells, and also because without Mr. Spell Check mine is worse than yours.
Also, my eye was drawn to
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and immediately I thought of FGTH, but only because my new t-shirt company's "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" shirts (big yellow lettering just like the old 80s ones) should be produced next week.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to do my Flashdancing while listening to Spandau Ballet's "Gold."
(I'm indestructible)
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WHO THE HELL IS LOUIS PASTURE?!?
Sorry, that's wrong, the correct question is "Who is Louis Pasteur?"
You know that I only tease you for your horrible spelling because I like you, Smells, and also because without Mr. Spell Check mine is worse than yours.
Also, my eye was drawn to
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and immediately I thought of FGTH, but only because my new t-shirt company's "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" shirts (big yellow lettering just like the old 80s ones) should be produced next week.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to do my Flashdancing while listening to Spandau Ballet's "Gold."
(I'm indestructible)
Ah, yes, I am the Spell Check Kid. I am a total spelling retard. Since I went to Catholic school, where spelling and math were replaced by a religion class, I tend to struggle a bit in these areas. I over came my difficulty with numbers when I worked for Mastercard, but the spelling thing? There's spell check everywhere, except here!
I'm not missing something, right? The board doesn't have a spell check feature, right? I would have to go through the labour intensive process of writing my posts in word then cutting and pasting to here, right?wtf?
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Yet when I got the the video rental place, I pick it up, and I read the back, and it sounds so bloodly awful and boring. Men with mid-life issues and a trip to wine country?
Yes. I hated this so hard. I wanted to track down everyone who made it and put them in the same room with everyone who made "Lost in Translation" and kill them all slowly, taking at least as long as the movies lasted.
But as for the original topic - I only ever had B.N. (damn French hard to spell language) a long time ago when I didn't used to drink a lot of wine of any kind. I found it very odd and surprising. I should go out and get some and try it again and see what it seems like now. (I had meant to go on the wagon for the whole of this new temporary job, but I kind of accidentally had a margarita last night and I seem to be OK, so maybe resolving not to drink even on my days off is excessive.)
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Louis Pasture? Why, that was the cow who developed the germ theory of disease. Which explains, of course, why they pastureize milk.
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Sideways was one of my favourite movies of last year. I actually have it on my Palm PDA right now. It is a good movie, but I think it is probably more of a movie for aging menfolk than for young women, which isn't to say that young women can't also enjoy its goodness.
I mean, I sometimes will enjoy movies that are aimed at teenage girls, like Clueless, the Harry Potter movies, and Showgirls.
Anyway, I think we have previously established that Wombat hates middle-aged men, and movies about them (although really to be fair Lost in Translation was more about the Scarlett Johanssen character than it was about Bill Murray's).
Actually, my theory is that the only reason Lost in Translation exists is to get some cathartic putting down of Cameron Diaz, and the film is really "about" doing a press junket in Japan with Sophia Coppola's then-husband Spike Jonze and her jealousy of the time he was spending with Diaz.
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Anyway, I think we have previously established that Wombat hates middle-aged men, and movies about them
No, it's that Wombat is not interested in movies about whiny failures of any age and sex. I mean jeez, don't I have enough of that in real life?
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I mean, I sometimes will enjoy movies that are aimed at teenage girls, like Clueless, the Harry Potter movies, and Showgirls.
Showgirls???
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...and immediately I thought of FGTH, but only because my new t-shirt company's "FRANKIE SAYS RELAX" shirts (big yellow lettering just like the old 80s ones) should be produced next week.
My sister has an original one. We've passed it around my family, so, at different times, my mom, my brother, my sister and myself all have told onlookers that they should RELAX. Sadly, it is too small for my dad, who, as a gastroenterologist, probably needs it most.
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this is the sort of movie made from people just like me.
SIDEWAYS IS PEOPLE!
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To try and threadjack for a moment, can anyone give me any tips on the wind front? I am a total winetard and don't go in for many beers but don't believe it too classy to be drinking my preferred spirits over dinner. My main problem with wine is that I either find it too acidic (generally white wines) or a bit sickly (in the case of red wines). I did try a muscat recently that was nice but am not sure that really counts as it certainly seemed to earn the recommendation that it be drunk in very small glasses.
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My wife used to work for a huge California Winery. I was lucky enough to get to spend some time with the head Chef from the winery. I learned two key things:
1) Pairing wine with food is about 50% "what you like"
2) There are foods for which the only good pairing is beer
He set up a tasting with plates of food and flights of wine. Surprisingly the food and the wine each taste significantly different when paired. In one case, the food and the wine tasted completely different after adding a little bit of salt to the food.
Next time you are in a restaurant, order a few different wines by the glass and check it out. It's actually really fun.
I find that you just need to taste a lot of wines and try them with different foods.
I think that:
There is no match for asparaugus
There is no real good match for vietnamese or chinese food
I like Zinfandels and Merlots with read meats (lamb and beef) and Duck
I like Rieslings and Pinot Grigios with pastas with non-red sauces and side dishes with cheese (or fondue).
I like Pinot Noir and Fume Blanc by themselves.
Cabernet Sauvignon is good with most things - I like it with a solid mouthfeel. One that I like gives you kind of a burst of kind of citrus flavor.
White Zinfandel is perfect with barbecue and fun food - to me, it's like the sodapop of wines.
YMMV.
I don't usually order wines with strong 'feline' characteristics but I think they would probably good with venison and wild fowl. Another good place for Zinfandel or other rich non-sweet wines as well.
Also, I was at a tasting and I got to try this 'White Burgundy' and it was so good. I get confused between French and American appelations - I don't know which grape it is (I suppose I could just look it up) but it's pretty good.
Drink and be merry.
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I only drink wine after eating half of a fresh pineapple.
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Would you like a bottle of pineapple wine? I'm sure I can find some here.
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Thanks for the advice Dawg, I'll bear it in mind next time I want something other than caffeine with my meal. Although 'feline characteristics'? I'm trusting your not messing with my head with that one but that's a fancy wine term I've not only never heard before but am not even sure I can start to comprehend.
Also while your getting the pineapple wine try some chilli wine, tis the bizeldy bomb. Again though more the sort of thing you drink on a dare from your girlfriends dad than with an actual meal you wish to enjoy.