12 domains, alphabetically, in a ballroom in Paris

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

Alliet (Chinon) - the 2007 VV was a perfect, Platonic Chinon; this is what Chinon would be if it never had any weird greenness or attempts at sophisticated overextraction; just classic goodness. However, the 2007 and 2006 Coteau de Noir were a steep fall off a cliff; too much oak on both, I felt, and, lacking the stuffing to hold up to it, they became placeless. Luxury cuve, my eye.
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Is this typical for Alliet, the VV has less new oak than the Coteau de Noire?
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
I've seen a number of vintages of Kreydenweiss's Costires de Nmes and they've all been good and well-priced.
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Yes, I suppose it might be a good business investment. Although with the large surplus of Southern wines I imagine not all of them are making money.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
See above.

But I will bold, too, Preview Function, Preview Function, Preview Function. Perhaps we can hypnotize the Politburo.
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Wow! It's totally crazy, but there is an edit button at the bottom of the post.

Edit and preview are redundant.

No wonder you don't get Vatan. Let me guess, double major, Lit & French? ;-)
 
Since when does Kreydenweiss work in Southern France?

And why?
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Claude's memory is close enough. He purchased the properties starting in 1999, I believe, which would match a 2001 first-release date.

The wines have been good. The Perrires is widely available here in Boston, as well (more so than the Alsace wines, frankly), though the vintage currently on offer is the same one I tasted almost three years ago in Alsace...so make of that what you will. There are four wines, which seem to have been introduced one by one.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Chris Coad:

I don't buy enough Graillot. That's a problem I should resolve to work on.
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unfortunately, they're really getting up in price. 2006 regular Crozes is $26-35, 2006 La Guiraude is a ridiculous $53-60+.
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That's more than I paid for the Hermitage just a few years ago.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Edit and preview are redundant.
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In other words, "I never use it, so it can't be useful for anyone else."
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No, they amount to the same thing.

What's next? a menu of emoticons?

Theater major.
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That's like saying that a shovel and a backhoe are equivalent because you can dig holes with both of them.

And emoticons were invented by Scott Fahlman, a pretty cool guy. Look here. Smiley usage has certainly gotten out of hand, but they still have occasional utility.
 
originally posted by Claude Kolm:
originally posted by Chris Coad:

I don't buy enough Graillot. That's a problem I should resolve to work on.
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unfortunately, they're really getting up in price. 2006 regular Crozes is $26-35, 2006 La Guiraude is a ridiculous $53-60+.
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Yep. And not even a baby-Rotie even. For shame. And damn exchange rates.
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
Edit and preview are redundant.
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In other words, "I never use it, so it can't be useful for anyone else."
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No, they amount to the same thing.

What's next? a menu of emoticons?

Theater major.
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That's like saying that a shovel and a backhoe are equivalent because you can dig holes with both of them.
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No, it's not.

And emoticons were invented by Scott Fahlman, a pretty cool guy. Look here. Smiley usage has certainly gotten out of hand, but they still have occasional utility.
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Fair enough. :-)
 
*sigh*

A edit function that's the same as a preview function is one where you can make all the formatting, spelling, grammar, syntax, and content corrections you wish to make without anyone else being able to see or respond to the post.

Since that's not what the edit function here does, they're not the same.
 
originally posted by Thor:
*sigh*

A edit function that's the same as a preview function is one where you can make all the formatting, spelling, grammar, syntax, and content corrections you wish to make without anyone else being able to see or respond to the post.

Since that's not what the edit function here does, they're not the same.
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Yes, I know. In a sense it is more truth preserving.

If you are so worried about all that, use some sort of word processing software like, say, Microsoft Word.

That's what folks used to say to me back in the old WLDG days.

But I was more into stream of consciousness.

Besides, my browser has a spell-checker, doesn't yours?
 
Word doesn't fact-check. I suppose with enough work, it can sorta-kinda render HTML, but it's not much use for predicting what Disorder will do with HTML. Word wouldn't have helped SFJoe figure out his image-posting problem, but a preview function might have saved us a dozen posts trying to figure it out.

But here, since this seems very, very hard for you, let me spell it out. Enjoy replying. I'll come back at some point and edit this, OK?
 
(Bad HTML in previous message commented out.) OK, all better.

...and that's why we need a preview function.
 
Whoah, yeah, things went black-and-white framey there for awhile. Freaky. What did you do?

I'm realizing now that vandergrift is just being silly. I regret being drawn into rage and comcomitant hiatus due to his playful sham-ignorance. It was wrong of me, and I'm big enough to admit it.
 
The magic and mystery of unclosed tags. I suppose with a few changes, I could have made the thread unusable and my message un-editable. But I wouldn't do that to Sharon.

I think you're right about the silliness, though.
 
Sharon is my new BFF, so I'd like to publicly thank you on her behalf for this tender display of restraint.

vandergrift is a teddy bear, he just likes to act all scruffy. It's kind of cute, really.
 
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