A tale of redemption

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Mark Lipton
Knowing as I do how we all love those heart-wrenching tales of falls from grace and recovery (or not) therefrom, I post this note. After having been admonished by Jean recently that I've been opening too many "weird whites" (by which she meant Riesling, Chenin and Muscadet -- go figger!) I was faced with what to open with a beautiful chunk of fresh, wild-caught sockeye that I'd just grilled and came up with one of the very few Chardonnays in our possession. The bottle of 2008 Joseph Drouhin St. Veran, once its funky metal closure had been removed, greeted us with a noseful of burnt matchstick sulfur. Jean, who's more sensitive to sulfur than I, immediately proclaimed it "awful" and retreated to a bottle of NZ Sauvignon that we keep on hand for moments like this. Curiously, we'd already had a few bottles of this wine with no such reaction, but this time the sulfur was overpowering and quite off-putting. I resealed the bottle and stuck it in the fridge to see what effect time would have on it. A day later I opened the bottle back up, et voil, a beautiful Chardonnay-based wine greeted me, all lemons and stones with just a hint of oak. Even Jean, still skeptical, agreed that the wine in its present form appealed to her.

So, there you have it: the typical narrative arc of despair followed by redemption and elation.

Mark Lipton
 
Could be screwcap reduction, not to bait Thor or to paint myself as a sock puppet of the powerful White/Gilman axis?

(I do not think there will ever be enough free time in the short stay granted me on this planet to read that thread some of you have mentioned.)
 
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
Was there any redemption happening while I was in the kitchen?
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And who or what would need to be redeemed? It's not like eating BLTs with y'all was anything close to perdition, after all. (I was the model of restraint and stopped with 4, the last wrapped in a lettuce leaf)

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
Could be screwcap reduction, not to bait Thor or to paint myself as a sock puppet of the powerful White/Gilman axis?

(I do not think there will ever be enough free time in the short stay granted me on this planet to read that thread some of you have mentioned.)
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Christ, man lay off the gloom and doom. You're even freaking out those of us who graduated HS in '77.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
I thought it was about Seinfeld.

Glad you and Jean had a nice dinner - what did you end up eating with the Drouhin?
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On the first night, it was the salmon. On the second, it was takeout Thai food IIRC.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
originally posted by SFJoe:
Could be screwcap reduction, not to bait Thor or to paint myself as a sock puppet of the powerful White/Gilman axis?

(I do not think there will ever be enough free time in the short stay granted me on this planet to read that thread some of you have mentioned.)
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Christ, man lay off the gloom and doom. You're even freaking out those of us who graduated HS in '77.
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On this one, it's a numerator problem not a denominator problem.
 
Could be screwcap reduction, not to bait Thor or to paint myself as a sock puppet of the powerful White/Gilman axis?
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Never said it didn't exist. But there's a big gulf between "it's a problem worth looking into" and...you know, that thread.
 
Are you familiar with the works of L. Ron? Just replace "engrams" with "natural corks" and "body Thetans" with "reduction" and it reads pretty much the same.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Are you familiar with the works of L. Ron? Just replace "engrams" with "natural corks" and "body Thetans" with "reduction" and it reads pretty much the same.
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Brilliant!
Best, Jim
 
Really, you people bitch and complain way too much about this.

The mysticism surrounding sulfur use is infuriating. A little well timed, judicious use would save a lot of wines I've tried.
 
originally posted by Thor:
Are you familiar with the works of L. Ron? Just replace "engrams" with "natural corks" and "body Thetans" with "reduction" and it reads pretty much the same.
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You've read all that stuff? Are you a member?
 
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