champagne

[The Wine Mule]

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by The Wine Mule:
"Cuve du Gadoux" has a long and dishonorable history. According to Andrew Jefford, the practice of spreading Parisian rubbish over the vineyards of Champagne was supposed to be stopped in 1998. Perhaps someone did not get the memo?

They did stop, but the plastic does not degrade. Nor does the glass or the occassional hypodermic needle.

Eeeeeeewwww....

 

[VLM]

originally posted by The Wine Mule:

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by The Wine Mule:
"Cuve du Gadoux" has a long and dishonorable history. According to Andrew Jefford, the practice of spreading Parisian rubbish over the vineyards of Champagne was supposed to be stopped in 1998. Perhaps someone did not get the memo?

They did stop, but the plastic does not degrade. Nor does the glass or the occassional hypodermic needle.

Eeeeeeewwww....

AIDS!!!!

 

[Scott Kraft]

originally posted by VLM:
HIV!!!

originally posted by The Wine Mule:

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by The Wine Mule:
"Cuve du Gadoux" has a long and dishonorable history. According to Andrew Jefford, the practice of spreading Parisian rubbish over the vineyards of Champagne was supposed to be stopped in 1998. Perhaps someone did not get the memo?

They did stop, but the plastic does not degrade. Nor does the glass or the occassional hypodermic needle.

Eeeeeeewwww....

AIDS!!!!

It's always AIDS with you, VLM.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by VLM:
HIV!!!

AIDS!!!!

Hey, but I hear that there's this vaccine now that lowers infection rates by 34% in Thailand... on Tuesdays... when there's a full moon.

Mark Lipton

 

[SFJoe]

I know a vigneron in a different AOC, very far from Champagne, who once told me that his uncle had an entire silver set (not matched, natch) found in the vines. They used the trash from their local city the same way they did in Champagne.

 

[Ned Hoey]

This whole thing is too depressing for words. It rates very high on my WHAT THE FUCK scale.
I mean, was this limited to household garbage? Or was commercial garbage OK too? Medical and hospital waste... please don't tell me that was included just cause it was all collected together.

So to reiterate, WHAT THE FUCK?!

 

[Scott Kraft]

C'est logique.