There are many ways to drink wine

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Todd Abrams

Todd Abrams
This is one of them: Over about 5-6 hours. The rest of the family on their own adventures. Me. A bottle. Even the relatively simple and crunchy 2011 Mas de Chimeres Nuit Grave provides food for the brain and soul (although I'd be eager to attempt this exercise again with that 2010 white label Ferrando Carema that I can't stop thinking about).

With a wine I haven't tried before it's like interviewing a stranger with whom I feel almost immediately comfortable. Helios is playing in the background. I watch the eight-minute opening sequence from Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West for the third time in as many weeks. I wouldn't want to make this a habit, though. It would lose all of its magic.

So I drank alone and finished the bottle by myself. Can I be saved?
 
Everyone should drink a bottle on their own once in a while. Once a week, maybe cause for reflection.

Red Obsession has Christian Moueix talking about drinking a bottle of Petrus (three magnums among seven people) at lunch. I gather this is not am exceptional rate of consumption in some circles, though we are more prudish in our home.
 
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
From lists on the internet claiming I have dependency issues.
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I'm not a real doctor but I don't think dependency has anything to do with whether or not someone is sitting near you when you drink alcohol.

That said, my wife drinks very little so most of the wine I drink at home is essentially just me drinking, and usually over a 5-6 hour period. So I may be biased!

(And FWIW, I also tend to spit the wine after dinner, just because. Which is funny for my 4 year old because he knows that is not what most people do with their beverages. But, he doesn't quite grasp the notion of alcohol, taste, etc).
 
turd a is here to drive you all to a commercial wine bored.

like teh boiling of a frog, it seems to work.

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originally posted by Todd Abrams:
originally posted by fatboy:
turd a is here to drive you all to a commercial wine bored.

like teh boiling of a frog, it seems to work.

ribet

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Is this supposed to make some kind of sense?
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It will once you finish another bottle of wine, Todd. Don't worry; be happy. Once Weekley, post a photoessay on a bottle or three for philosophical redemption.

Mark Lipton
The Great Enabler
(Currently dancing the East Bryden 12-step for Amphibians)
 
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
originally posted by fatboy:
turd a is here to drive you all to a commercial wine bored.

like teh boiling of a frog, it seems to work.

ribet

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Is this supposed to make some kind of sense?
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you began commenting here several years before you joined the wine biz, and Elie has neither a wine bored nor does it promote itself beyond your region, so you shouldn't care a wit about what the witless have to say
 
originally posted by JBrennan:


you began commenting here several years before you joined the wine biz, and Elie has neither a wine bored nor does it promote itself beyond your region, so you shouldn't care a wit about what the witless have to say
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i'm with you, bejerker girl!

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originally posted by Todd Abrams:
There are many ways to drink wineThis is one of them: Over about 5-6 hours. The rest of the family on their own adventures. Me. A bottle. Even the relatively simple and crunchy 2011 Mas de Chimeres Nuit Grave provides food for the brain and soul (although I'd be eager to attempt this exercise again with that 2010 white label Ferrando Carema that I can't stop thinking about).

With a wine I haven't tried before it's like interviewing a stranger with whom I feel almost immediately comfortable. Helios is playing in the background. I watch the eight-minute opening sequence from Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West for the third time in as many weeks. I wouldn't want to make this a habit, though. It would lose all of its magic.

So I drank alone and finished the bottle by myself. Can I be saved?
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Did that harmonica play incessantly in your ear after you finished the bottle all by your lonesome?
 
originally posted by Charlie Carnes:

Did that harmonica play incessantly in your ear after you finished the bottle all by your lonesome?
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I can still hear it. I hear it everywhere. In The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds and most recently in the film Stretch.
 
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