I noticed that I haven't written a post as THE WINE GUY since July.
Sorry about that.
There have been wine related comments made by me on some of my other blogs, usually as a response to the very silly things that Richard of Richard's Bass Bag (don't ask) has posted or commented. This is the guy who, back in about 1976 ruined a vertical tasting of Chateau Margaux by pouring lemonade into the glasses.
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| An excerpt from a post dated Tuesday, October 29, 2013 |
As you can see putting Richard in close proximity to decent wine is like voting Donald Trump into the presidency of the USA.
As I said, Richard has said some silly things in his blog about wine. I guess that it's a good thing that he does drink wine instead of, say, bleach or methylated spirits but his choices are a bit prosaic. His preference in wine style or varietal is chardonnay. That's it, just chardonnay. Now, don't get me wrong, I love chardonnay and think it's the best white wine varietal that can be made into an interesting range of different style wines, from different countries, different regions, different microclimates and using different methods - barrel fermentation, new wood or old wood ageing etc. I like to experiment.
Richard doesn't. He prefers his chardonnays to be in bottles with no labels, This could be due to the fact that the big words (in small print) that the wine marketers use confuse him but, I believe it's because the wines with no labels - cleanskins - are cheaper and he gets 'more bangs for his bucks'. Maybe he has Covid ....
........ one of the side effects of Covid-19 is that infected people lose the ability to smell and taste.
..... moving along.
Oh, that's right, I was talking about Richard's recent vinous ramblings and The Curmudgeon's responses to those. How on earth are you supposed to respond to stuff like this?
Well, The Curmudgeon responded with these two comments:
Richard has written much worse stuff about wine - believe me - or not, as you wish. Maybe you could just visit his blog ........ but it isn't recommended.
4 comments:
"This is the guy who, back in about 1976 ruined a vertical tasting of Chateau Margaux by pouring lemonade into the glasses."
Fake news - I only poured lemonade into my glass.
If this is the sort of bullshit TWG writes, you're better off reading about wine on Richard's Bass Bag.*
* the original bass bagging site
In my recollection he not only poured lemonade into all of the glasses and bottles but then put the blends into ice cube trays, froze them and ate them as ice blocks.
Accusations. The devil is the prince of accusations.
After eating all the ice blocks he peed the lot back into some of the bottles. The bottles being dark green didn't indicate what was in them so it was a lottery when picking up a bottle to try the wine.
Robert was living there at the time and I remember him saying something about the Wedding of Cana.
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