olivier in france

You can go down to Atlantic City enjoy the coast and the casinos, stop at the HOF at Cooperstown on the way there then on your way back Philadelphia and Gettysburgh...

where do you some hatred there? bitterness does exist in those regions and is easily understandable. you don't need a degree in sociology to understand that...

As long as the wine is good i don't really care if the guy is a hippie smoking his grapes!

He Jim, i found those guys, looks like they have lot of choice.... http://www.chartrandimports.com/grapes.html and by the way in June i'm gonna visit that vineyard with some wine loving friends. i have no clue what's "cosmoculture" but some of our friends tell us the wine is incredible... i'll tell you! http://www.domaine-viret.com/vins-rhone-viret-us.htm

well it was some Morgon ... but it looks like it's a new "fashion" in the wine business around here... (one that looks to taste better than the "wood in wine" fashion we had a few years ago!) . an interesting link in english: http://expertwineclub.com/category/Sulfite...ganic-Wine.aspx keep in mind the first use of sulfates is conservation of the wine, that's why that kind of wine can only be appreciated on wines that can be consumed young (one or two years old) ... my friend told me you'd need a great wine cellar to keep some more than that. (but the Morgon we drank was 5 years old and really good, he has a great and perfect cellar... )

well at least we don't mix coke and wine! That looks much more important than bath or not to me!

well they'd mix anything with anything in Poland as long as it makes you drunk faster!

yeah Beaujolais are only made with the Gamay grape; Seldom used overseas, used in some Loire Valley wines in France as well. In the "Crus", i have forgotten some nice ones like the Chiroubles, the Chenas and the wonderful St Amour (that makes a great Valentine's day gift!)

yes you're right i should not have used "sulfate free". i was sceptic but a friend of mine who is in the wine business made me try and he was right.

maybe for the role dogs play in chinese cuisine...

Well Beaujolais is a french region just north of Lyon. Overseas it's known basically for its "Beaujolais Nouveau", a cheap wine that is sold in mid november just 2 months after the harvest. Don't drink that!! Then there's the middle of the pack wines "Beaujolais" and "Beaujolais Villages" that are easy to drink reds that you should find under 15 dollars. Their quality are very variable depending of the winery. Duboeuf who is the biggest player in the region has some above average ones... The "Beaujolais Villages" is usually better than the "Beaujolais". Finally there's the "Crus du Beaujolais" that are linked to small territories, each with peculiar soils, exposition to sunshine etc... Those rarer wines are of course the best ones of the region. There's the strong ones that can be compared to good Bourgognes: Julienas, Morgon, Moulin à Vent. The sweet Fleurie, maybe my favorite of the lot..., The Brouilly and its better brother the Cotes de Brouilly that are lighter wines... I may be forgetting a couple of others... Those wines not well known overseas are usually cheaper than their northern neighbors of Burgundy and some of them are reallly good. In the US you probably can find them around 20-25 dollars.

St Veran is a very nice white... and at that price, with the euro so high it looks like a great deal! and among the reds i'd take the Crozes Hermitage. classic and made just 25 miles from my home village...

yeah it's the sulfates... I've recently bought some sulfate free Morgons... awesome and headache free even if you go a little to far...

he had some classic middle of the pack Beaujolais Villages Chef, not the all-for tourists all-headache Beaujolais Nouveau...

i know you've traveled a lot Pete, but Spain is the only place i've seen people doing that blasphemy... have you seen it elsewhere?

the question i'd have asked is: "what kind of stuff do you actually "cook" mixing sausage and cheese?!!"

what do you mean by "chillable"? i just hope it is not what i think...

and you're so right about people afraid of sex becoming violent and full of hatred... There's a reason why institutions needing aggresive "soldiers" like religions and armies have always banned sex ... Sexual frustration is probably the best way to make people violent.

awesome post. scary, cynical, lucid, but awesome!

i've lived in SF Wacka... and excluding Boston, it's probably the town in the US i'd love to live in...

Sometimes reading Wacka i wonder if that guy actually exists... Like i say often, what makes America great is that most of the time, the clichés and stereotypes about americans are UNDERestimating what americans really are! If i had to write posts of a fictional american conservative on an internet forums i'd never go as far as wacka's fearing thoses posts 'd not look realistic to my readers!

that's some new slang for a big belly full of hamburgers maybe....

I'm not always proud of my fellow frenchmen (in fact i'm almost NEVER proud of them!) but i'm quite happy we have been at least as good as the english to give a hard time to the "chinese flame" visiting us today. Now it's coming to you ... I know you can do as well as us! Especially in SF!!

what's your point? that the Gumper was not an exception?!! that russians are not europeans? (what's funnier is that russians are usually the first called "soft" by north americans!) Come on Exiled! Do you think we play hockey with white gloves in Europe? I've been around ice rinks since i was a child around here... you know what? hockey played anywhere is still hockey. with crazy guys, tough guys, fast guys, funny guys, goons, fights, artists, scorers, passers...