NationStates Jolt Archive

I know we have a few fans of wine here on the board.

Any recent good wine bargains you've come across?

The wine steward of a local fine foods store recently handed me a bottle of Rotta Winery 2002 Dessert Sherry, from california.

I like port and other dessert wines, and this, at 18$ for a 1/2 bottle was on par with port costing several times what it did.

Also, cost plus stores have a chianti called "da vinci" for ~10$ which is eminantly drinkable, I think it got an 86 from wine spectator.

And on the topic of bordeaux, while Yqem has only passed my lips on extremely rare occaision, Sauternes in general is god's gift to mankind.

Apparently Australian wines are as good as French ones, (not that I've ever had French), and are comparatively cheap, at least in Australia :)

I know champagne isn't as great as it's cracked up to be. I prefer beer to be honest.

In Catalonia they recently published a study concerned that climate change will wreck the traditional wine growing regions, or at the very least significantly change the flavour of their produce.

Now that's something to make the chattering classes listen!

In Catalonia they recently published a study concerned that climate change will wreck the traditional wine growing regions, or at the very least significantly change the flavour of their produce.

Now that's something to make the chattering classes listen!


Shut the fiddlesticks up, biatch! :mp5: :p

I want to know who these chattering classes are and where i can find them. I'll teach em a lesson...

I apologise, is the concept so alien?

They're a bit like intellectuals, with the two marked differences that they don't actually have a clue about anything, but have influence out of proportion with their knowledge. Think they know everything but don't actually do anything about it and all too often use their supposed education to cover for little more than ancient prejudice. Less resentful than the Daily Mail, perhaps best associated with The Times or the Grauniad on a bad day.

May drink wine because it's "stylish", but will only know anything about it after reading the Daily Telegraph Wine Supplement.

I apologise, is the concept so alien?

They're a bit like intellectuals, with the two marked differences that they don't actually have a clue about anything, but have influence out of proportion with their knowledge. Think they know everything but don't actually do anything about it and all too often use their supposed education to cover for little more than ancient prejudice. Less resentful than the Daily Mail, perhaps best associated with The Times or the Grauniad on a bad day.

May drink wine because it's "stylish", but will only know anything about it after reading the Daily Telegraph Wine Supplement.
Hmm i read the guardian, but people who i see at parties drinking wine i immidiately assume are tossers (bearing in mind i'm a teenager). Do you mean the middle classes?

Sort of. The irritating, gossiping sort. The kind the working classes rightfully don't aspire ever to emulate. Who will talk about the issues of the day at length, decrying various real or imagined ways in which society is going down the drain, but without ever doing anything sensible as a result. "This climate change is so terrible, isn't it? Fancy those crazy hippie types could ever be right about anything, haha. But what can we do... What? Use my car less? You're joking! I need it! But I might vote Conservative. David Cameron is so very green."

I read the Guardian myself, sometimes. I may also be seen drinking wine at parties. For me it's the taste. And it beats, hands down, expensive alco-pops based on cheap and nasty vodka with food colouring (*shudder*). For some other people it's all about keeping up appearances, and that doesn't fade with age, alas. Chattering classes are not really into the ales...

Sort of. The irritating, gossiping sort. The kind the working classes rightfully don't aspire ever to emulate. Who will talk about the issues of the day at length, decrying various real or imagined ways in which society is going down the drain, but without ever doing anything sensible as a result. "This climate change is so terrible, isn't it? But what can we do... What? Use my car less? You're joking! I need it! But I might vote Conservative. David Cameron is so very green."

I read the Guardian myself, sometimes. I may also be seen drinking wine at parties. For me it's the taste. And it beats, hands down, expensive alco-pops based on cheap and nasty vodka with food colouring (*shudder*). For some other people it's all about keeping up appearances, and that doesn't fade with age, alas. Chattering classes are not really into the ales...
'The great unwashed' except they regularly bathe. I agree about alco-pops, they suck arse.

Liasia']'The great unwashed' except they regularly bathe. I agree about alco-pops, they suck arse.

No decent person admits to drinking those.
Nor does one admit to reading anything but the Times.

No decent person admits to drinking those.
Nor does one admit to reading anything but the Times.
The times eh...
*shoots bogmarsh*

Liasia']The times eh...
*shoots bogmarsh*


*Totally ignores that, and continues drinking a nice cuppa.*

*Totally ignores that, and continues drinking a nice cuppa.*
Bah, you bourgeiouse tosser.:p

Liasia']Bah, you bourgeiouse tosser.:p


*So proud of that*

There'll always be an England - as long as there are nice cuppas!
:D

*So proud of that*

There'll always be an England - as long as there are nice cuppas!
:D
Well, both of us enjoy tea. I just don't enjoy the times.

Liasia']Well, both of us enjoy tea. I just don't enjoy the times.

Well then, forget the Times, and let us watch cricket instead.

Well then, forget the Times, and let us watch cricket instead.
I can go for some of that. it is at least more interesting that the football.

I'll cheerfully join you for the tea and the cricket, but kindly keep Murdoch's media mudsling away from me.

I'll cheerfully join you for the tea and the cricket, but kindly keep Murdoch's media mudsling away from me.
Yay!