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CaboMagic
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Recently watched the movie "Bottle Shock" - story based on the 'early days' of Calif wine making .. while we drank a pinot noir from Toasted Head
Sonoma Coast :-) cost under 10dlls ..
Wine and food - we enjoy both! find we can spend a lot or a little - to us its the ingredients that affect taste and thats not always linked to
price.
Have respect for those whose palate is so fine they can tell but we just either like it or we dont .. so cheers!
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El Camote
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
| Quote: | Originally posted by BillP
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Do they still sell Thunderbird and Ripple? Yikes, those were the days  |
Don't forget Boones Farm and Annie Bedsprings.  |
I feel cheated---I sure remember the Boones Farm, but somehow missed the Annie Bedsprings.
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A compilation of cheap, Kool-aidesque wines wouldn't be complete without the inclusion of TJ Swans. Remember "Mellow Days" and "Easy Nights"? 
Knowledge is good. - Emil Faber
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toneart
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A new wine for Seniors...
I kid you not.....
New Wine for Seniors
California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new
hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.
The new wine will be marketed as
PINO MORE
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
I just could not help it.
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Martyman
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If you drink too much Pino More and you just cant relieve yourself...Take the new urinary anti-retention drug
Are you ready?
Niagara
sorry...
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capitolkat
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As I get closer to my move to La paz I have been struggling with my wine collection- I've already had numerous cellar reduction parties and have gone
down from 500 to about 250 bottles. The house we are building has a space for a wine cooler for up to 270 bottles- but how to get them there without
ruining them and paying a fortune has me wondering.
in any case I tell anybody that price has nothing to do with what wines you should buy. Drink what you like and most people who don't drink bordeaux
or sauternnes regularly don't have the pallate for them and that's fine. And like many others I've attended more than my fair share of wine tastings.
blind and double blind tastings. I have found that people who drink wine regularly and have developed a pallate for fine wines can easily discern less
expensive wines from their lofty brothers. I do occasionally buy wines in the $50-100 range and most times they are good but I do wonder -is it worth
that much if I enjoy a $20 bottle. I have some Wine Spectator wines of the year- which means they were rated as the best wine of the year out of the
13,000 or so that Wine Spectator tasted and rated. now that I'm about to retire I think those days are over. But my cellar has them and they are
aging nicely. My kids covet them as they think my wines will outlast me but I'm not so sure. I've got a bottle of 1895 french cognac that many have
volunteered to share for my retirement so I guess that's as good a reason as any.
As you can see I've spent a little time and money on wines and belong to several wine groups- where we have dinners and share special bottles. It's
been fun and I've been able to drink some wines of legend but I don't look down my nose at those who like it from a box. Whatever strokes your taste
buds is what you should drink .
Cheers-- Norm
Life is too short to drink bad wine
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capt. mike
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just saw black box brand, might try it - pork kay noir??
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
just saw black box brand, might try it - pork kay noir?? |
In my limited box wine forays, Black Box was the best but kinda pricey - $20 or so for 3 liters (four 750ml bottles for the numerically challenged).
So at $5 each you're on the second to lowest shelf at the supermercardo in my town, but still seems better than those.
Mexitron: are you serious? $90 food AND booze budget for a month? This was on top of food stamps, right?
All of you re: Boonesfarm, Annie Bedsprings et al: in 1975 or thereabouts I once dated a girl, and I use this term loosely, from Taft who was very
impressed when I opened a bottle of '69 Charles Krug Cab that probably cost me two days wages. She was impressed that it had a cork and I served it
in stemware but thought it wasn't sweet enough. What guys will do.......
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Iflyfish
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capitolkat
I will be most happy to assist in the depletion of this burden you now must carry.
Iflyfishwithmynewesttoyanaereator
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Marc
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
A new wine for Seniors...
I kid you not.....
New Wine for Seniors
California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new
hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.
It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.
The new wine will be marketed as
PINO MORE
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
I just could not help it.
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You should just shoot yourself!
[Edited on 8-4-2010 by Marc]
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capitolkat
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Iflyfish--
There are many who have volunteered to make their liver suffer on my behalf -- and many offers have been accepted. I just have to figure how to get
the wines to La Paz. Norm
Life is too short to drink bad wine
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Taco de Baja
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Peter Vella box wine also makes a nice base for sangria 
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions
-Herbert Spencer
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
Do they still sell Thunderbird and Ripple? Yikes, those were the days |
What's the word?
Tunderbird!
What's the price?
Thirty twice!
Bob Durrell
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
Do they still sell Thunderbird and Ripple? Yikes, those were the days |
There were more:
Red Mountain
Spaņada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qzCQZLR-E
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capitolkat
Iflyfish--
There are many who have volunteered to make their liver suffer on my behalf -- and many offers have been accepted. I just have to figure how to get
the wines to La Paz. Norm |
Just have all those nomads who drink boxed wine send you their empties and transfer your good stuff to the boxes for easier smuggling. Would your wine
taste as good from their boxes
Bob Durrell
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Mexitron
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
just saw black box brand, might try it - pork kay noir?? |
In my limited box wine forays, Black Box was the best but kinda pricey - $20 or so for 3 liters (four 750ml bottles for the numerically challenged).
So at $5 each you're on the second to lowest shelf at the supermercardo in my town, but still seems better than those.
Mexitron: are you serious? $90 food AND booze budget for a month? This was on top of food stamps, right?
All of you re: Boonesfarm, Annie Bedsprings et al: in 1975 or thereabouts I once dated a girl, and I use this term loosely, from Taft who was very
impressed when I opened a bottle of '69 Charles Krug Cab that probably cost me two days wages. She was impressed that it had a cork and I served it
in stemware but thought it wasn't sweet enough. What guys will do....... |
We were both in between jobs......but really wasn't too bad, we had a vegie garden and just ate simple foods---pasta, beans and rice, chicken (which
you can usually find on sale for 40 cents a pound for the leg quarters)....and no, don't qualify for food stamps---just a blip in our little house
economy....got back to the usual the next month. We had savings but made a game out of it!
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MsTerieus
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
Do they still sell Thunderbird and Ripple? Yikes, those were the days |
There were more:
Red Mountain
Spaņada
My fave was Boone's Farm strawberry wine!  |
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DENNIS
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"My fave was Boone's Farm strawberry wine!"
Well...yeah, but I couldn't afford the French imports.
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Martyman
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Fred Sanfords favorite - Champipple
Ripple and 7-up
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capt. mike
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i 1st drank Katwaba pink in a duck blind at age 14.
i was hooked immediately and soon moved on to harder stuff....
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
I once dated a girl, and I use this term loosely, |
Fotos please.......Did the goatee have anything to do with your confusion?
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