Uninteresting thoughts on a particular wine

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Keith Levenberg

Keith Levenberg
I'm drinking a 2007 Baudry franc de pied rght now. I (used to) buy a case of this wine every year, so this wine passes the fatboy test of allowing me to have interesting thoughts on it. Unfortunately this is only my second bottle of it, so my thoughts are just as uninteresting as if I'd only bought 3 bottles.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Uninteresting thoughts on a particular wineI'm drinking a 2007 Baudry franc de pied rght now. I (used to) buy a case of this wine every year, so this wine passes the fatboy test of allowing me to have interesting thoughts on it. Unfortunately this is only my second bottle of it, so my thoughts are just as uninteresting as if I'd only bought 3 bottles.
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taking this note on faith, i'm left to wonder why i always find your general thoughts on wine interesting (and, as i noted earlier, i do), and yet -- honestly -- i inevitably ignore your specific tasting notes.

you clearly don't stick to the 3 bottle limit your religion espouses, but even allowing for that, i'm puzzled.

here's my best guess.

here's my three bottle assessment of your note on teh baudry:

funny? 0.25/3.

feels like a man when you bond with teh herd? 2.4/3.

spelling? 0.3/3.

interesting insight into teh wine? 0.05/3.

shit. now i reads, it adds up to three.

wasn't teh ebob-madcow-berserk bored set up to give that sort of thing a forum?

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Hi! Lots of thoughts to deal with there both interesting and uninteresting so let's take them one by one.
- I am genuinely pleased that you find my general thoughts on wine interesting! I have always figured that if I were ever to have any audience at all, it would be among the curmudgeonly and the misanthropic, regardless of girth.
- You must go to some considerable effort to ignore my specific tasting notes since I don't post them here! Nevertheless I am not at all offended you find them uninteresting. ALL tasting notes are uninteresting; their only purpose is (sometimes) to prompt some interesting conversation, which actually does sometimes happen. The only interesting specific tasting note that I can even think of is Allen Meadows' 100-point tasting note on Rudy's bottle of 1945 Romanée-Conti, which is only interesting on account of trying to figure out what the blending components might have been.
- I don't have any religion nor any limits dictated thereby, just an unpleasant reality that the cumulative cost of the various stuff I want exceeds my income, so some rationing is in order.
- I will take the 0.25/3 rating on "funny" as an unfortunate symptom of grade inflation in the modern academy since I wasn't trying to be funny at all. But if we're grading funny, I give a 0 out of 3 to this recurring "teh" bit which wasn't even funny the first time around. I hereby unilaterally retire this non-joke.
- I don't even know what herd I'm bonding with but I feel like such a manly man! Grrr! Pass me some cigarettes and Bounty paper towels to go with my natural wine!
- Spelling only 0.3/3? Now THAT hurts. What'd I spell wrong?
- Once AGAIN that 0.05/3 on the "interesting insight" criterion is naked grade inflation. The whole point of this post was to be uninteresting. I demand to know where that 0.05 came from.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

- Once AGAIN that 0.05/3 on the "interesting insight" criterion is naked grade inflation. The whole point of this post was to be uninteresting. I demand to know where that 0.05 came from.
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it's america.

rarely funny, but occasionally kind.

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As soon as you made the emotional investment and effort to buy a case of 12, your thoughts seem interesting to me even if you didn't taste the wine yet.
This is all about emotions.
Who gives a shit about facts when it comes to wine. Or anything else by the way.
 
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
I believe Ronald Reagan once said "facts are such stupid things."
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Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don't stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

David Byrne
 
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