Francly, I give a damn.

[Oswaldo Costa]

2007 Bernard Baudry Chinon Franc de Pied 12.5
For one evening, I became sincere and drank a Frank Franc de Pied Cab Franc. Served at around 15C, the aromas still volatiled nicely, berries pleasantly mixed with exotic church spices and leather. Savory, with satisfying density, light bitter finish, perfect acid/sweet balance. Complexity is not the point here, and it delivers simple pleasures with insuperable aplomb. As the analytical stage waned, the gulping stage ran amok and it became toast with alarming celerity. Even a magnum would have been dusted in a jiffy.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

What are "church spices"?

 

[Daniel Piechota]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What are "church spices"?

You need to have experienced a Catholic mass once to understand that note.

 

[Vincent Fritzsche]

Might I suggest (franc)incense?

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Daniel Piechota:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What are "church spices"?

You need to have experienced a Catholic mass once to understand that note.

Jeff, I bet my sister would take you to St. Boniface on Sunday if you promise to behave.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Vincent Fritzsche:
Might I suggest (franc)incense?

Brilliant! Yes, anything carried by the three wise men qualifies. Jeff, I'll make it up to you in the caption of one of my Portugal pictures, when I come around to posting them.

 

[Lou Kessler]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Daniel Piechota:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What are "church spices"?

You need to have experienced a Catholic mass once to understand that note.

Jeff, I bet my sister would take you to St. Boniface on Sunday if you promise to behave.

Maybe one of the priests at St. Boniface could hear Jeff's confession? Would they have one that had a couple of days to occupy?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by SFJoe:
Jeff, I bet my sister would take you to St. Boniface on Sunday if you promise to behave.

Please forgive me if I demyrrh.

 

[The Wine Mule]

I was going to make another bad pun, but I will self-censer.

 

[VLM]

[No message]

 

[Vincent Fritzsche]

Puns aside, frankinsence is indeed usually the core of Catholic church insense, along with some other things. Not to ruin a string of bad jokes. Long may you pun.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

What does frankincense smell like?

 

[Thor]

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Ewww.

 

[Karen Goetz]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What does frankincense smell like?

...and if you don't frankin' know what frankin' incense frankin' smells like just go to midnight frankin' Mass when they swing that big smoking thing around. Or that cathedral in Spain that has the world's biggest incense contraption whose swing can span the entire vestibule (where was that...?).

Also, Sepulchral Tuscan Sangiovese.

 

[Lou Kessler]

originally posted by Thor:

You didn't have to do that. Couldn't resist could you? Nothing good has come out of your beloved state this FU----- week.

 

[Thor]

Hey, don't knock the state that gave you Ben Affleck.

...wait, that wasn't a counter-argument, was it?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Karen Goetz:
Ex Catholic, Ex Cellar

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What does frankincense smell like?

...and if you don't frankin' know what frankin' incense frankin' smells like just go to midnight frankin' Mass when they swing that big smoking thing around. Or that cathedral in Spain that has the world's biggest incense contraption whose swing can span the entire vestibule (where was that...?).

Also, Sepulchral Tuscan Sangiovese.

If the substance exists only within churches then it isn't important.

 

[Vincent Fritzsche]

Looking at that picture, I smell dead people.

Frankincense smells like frankincense, or perhaps certain Chinon.

After all this, I'm tempted to bring back franklin.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
What does frankincense smell like?

You can always try getting Deis angry about something.