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3680. arkymalarky - 3/21/2006 12:01:40 AM ...to practice ORGANIC methods.... 3681. alistairconnor - 3/27/2006 10:14:02 AM Feeling sore all over this morning.
Celebrated spring by spending the weekend outside, doing maintenance that wasn't really feasible during the Winter from Hell. Finished the last 50 metres of fencing -- sheep netting, the best thing for keeping the ponies off the streets -- and felled half a dozen trees along the stream.
They are pretty mediocre firewood :
 trembles, a variety of poplar -- but they grow like buggery. They need cutting back every five or ten years, otherwise they form a curtain that hides the landscape -- and they spring back up from the stumps.
I like playing lumberjack, calculating which way to make them fall. 3682. PelleNilsson - 3/27/2006 10:52:36 AM I buggery growing in your region? 3683. Magoseph - 3/27/2006 1:53:43 PM Sacré bougre that you are, Ali, teaching the meaning of the word “bugger” to such an innocent ear as mine! 3684. thoughtful - 3/27/2006 3:45:56 PM Calling oenophiles....I'm having a dinner party and the restaurant is offering a choice of cabernet or merlot for the red wine selection. Hubby says you can't get a good merlot, but most of my friends seem to order it when we are out. Also, a bud told me it's out of fashion since the movie sideways, but unfairly so and the trend should fade. So what's your recommendation?
Dinner choices will include a chicken pasta, a stuffed pork loin roast, a baked salmon or ny strip steak. 3685. wonkers2 - 3/27/2006 3:54:10 PM How about a nice Pinot Grigio? (I like Merlot despite Sideways!) 3686. thoughtful - 3/27/2006 3:56:21 PM Our choice on the whites were between pinot and chardonnay, and I went with the chardonnay as I think more people like it. 3687. judithathome - 3/27/2006 5:24:19 PM I hate merlot and always have...I cheered the guy in Sideways when he went off on his little merlot rant!
I have always preferred a beaujolais and my fave is Louis Jadot Beaujolais-Villages. Have never been disappointed in it. With that range of entree, it would be just the ticket! A lighter red but still a red, you know? 3688. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 5:48:28 PM Beaujolais is a bit robust for the fish part of the menu, but if white is also an option I love it too; however it's not in the origianal option, I'd go with the "claret" (as Rumpole would say) between the two choices because I'm partial to dry over fruity. 3689. judithathome - 3/27/2006 6:07:16 PM Wiz, beaujolais-villages isn't robust in my book but what do I know... 3690. thoughtful - 3/27/2006 6:31:29 PM ok, but my choices are as follows...
white: chardonnay or pinot
red: merlot or cabernet
That's it.
I chose the chardonnay and merlot.
Do you think that would be ok? 3691. wonkers2 - 3/27/2006 6:47:05 PM Just tell us when and where! 3692. judithathome - 3/27/2006 6:52:51 PM Sounds fine to me.
3693. thoughtful - 3/27/2006 7:50:29 PM OK thx.
I figure after we drink enough, no one will care anyway. 3694. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 9:57:36 PM Got that right! 3695. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 10:05:33 PM 3689. judithathome - 3/27/2006 11:07:16 AM
Wiz, beaujolais-villages isn't robust in my book but what do I know...
Although Beaujolais may have up to 12.5 degrees of alcohol, it should always taste lively and fruity. The colour is a youthful, violetty red, and it is one of the only red wines to actually taste "grapey", bursting with natural fruit from the Gamay grape. There is always a refreshing acidity, which makes the wine all the more drinkable, and no discernible tannin.
3696. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 10:10:55 PM WINE 101
3697. thoughtful - 3/27/2006 10:38:09 PM You are aware, are you not, that blind taste tests by supposed wine experts were unable to tell the difference between red and white wine when served at the same temperature? And also, when served a wine and told it was a white described it in far different terms than when they were served the exact same wine and told it was a red?
3698. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 10:38:22 PM Speaking of Sideways and Pinot Noir . . . and if you like complex wine . . .
My Favorite Winery
My Favorite Wine (2001 if you can still get it)
3699. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/27/2006 10:48:47 PM You are aware, are you not, that blind taste tests by supposed wine experts were unable to tell the difference between red and white wine when served at the same temperature? And also, when served a wine and told it was a white described it in far different terms than when they were served the exact same wine and told it was a red?
You are aware that I wasn't trying to be a pretentious know-it-all or step on anyone's toes. My only motivation was to help by sharing some experience and defend my adjective of "robust" without being obnoxious.
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