What Wine Are You All Cracking Open for the Super Bowl?

originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Joel Stewart:
i think wines with twist-top caps can be cracked open
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By definition, twist-top caps are twisted off.
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exactly!...i always tell my buddies they are free to come over and we'll twist-off-the-caps-of-some-beers (or wines) anytime. i can hear that lovely uncracking sound already!
 
I was on a plane for the first half, so this was the only bit I watched.

Part I

Part II

I cracked open a Heineken on the flight. Was there a football game tonight?
 
Falling into the trap:

2006 Cabot Humboltdt County Syrah
2006 Arnot-Roberts Clary Ranch Syrah
2004 Radio Coteau Cherry Camp Syrah
2001 Carlisle Dry Creek Syrah (dreadful)

2001 Puffeney Cuvee Sacha
2001 Montbourgeau Cuvee Special

2007 Overnoy Poulsard

2004 Pacalet Gevrey-Chambertin
1999 Belle Pente Wahle

1993 Qupe Marsanne

1993 Edmunds St. John Durrell Syrah

WOTN for me was the 2006 Arnot-Roberts Clary. 12.6% Syrah. Picked in November. From California.
 
There's an old silent film version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which Simon Legree opens a bottle of whiskey by cracking the top off by hitting it on the edge of a table. He then drinks straight from the broken glass. I would guess that this would work for wine as well and might be a fitting way to consume it while watching the Superbowl. Maybe that's what Joe meant by cracking open a bottle.
 
Sabering is not the only way to "crack open" a bottle of wine.

Port tongs are even more exciting.

I made elk chili (well, beef chili with a little elk in it) and drank beer.

Leffe.

The elk was provided by a student in my honors class. His aunt lives in Alaska.

In some parts of the country, ladies of a certain age play bridge or golf or mah jongg. In Alaska they throw a rifle over their shoulder and head out on the snowmobile, evidently.

My prior acquaintance with elk was more or less limited to watching W. C. Fields in "The Fatal Glass of Beer." "It ain't a fit night out for ma-a-a-an nor beast!"

F
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
There's an old silent film version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which Simon Legree opens a bottle of whiskey by cracking the top off by hitting it on the edge of a table. He then drinks straight from the broken glass. I would guess that this would work for wine as well and might be a fitting way to consume it while watching the Superbowl..
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So you're saying that football is a primitive experience.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
There's an old silent film version of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which Simon Legree opens a bottle of whiskey by cracking the top off by hitting it on the edge of a table. He then drinks straight from the broken glass. I would guess that this would work for wine as well and might be a fitting way to consume it while watching the Superbowl..
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So you're saying that football is a primitive experience.
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Well I find Hobbes' characterization of life, "nasty, brutish and short," to be 2/3 applicable to football.
 
Leffe.
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Here in the bar of the glamorous Hotel Mercure Angers (Lac du Maine branch) we ran out of Leffe very early and had to settle for Carlsberg.

Back in the day these guys used to have Billecart rose. I think the new regime is a a sign of the economy.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Leffe.
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Here in the bar of the glamorous Hotel Mercure Angers (Lac du Maine branch) we ran out of Leffe very early and had to settle for Carlsberg.

Back in the day these guys used to have Billecart rose. I think the new regime is a a sign of the economy.
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Are you going all the way to Chablis, to taste the dreaded chards?
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Leffe.
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Here in the bar of the glamorous Hotel Mercure Angers (Lac du Maine branch) we ran out of Leffe very early and had to settle for Carlsberg.

Back in the day these guys used to have Billecart rose. I think the new regime is a a sign of the economy.
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BTW, throw something at Linus for me.
 
Are you going all the way to Chablis, to taste the dreaded chards?
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I am sick and can't really taste anything. I'm bailing early, and the annual report will fall to others since I've stumbled.
 
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