Coming to grips with past errors

[Cole Kendall]

I have been engaged in massive cellar rearranging and as a consequence have had to face up to some follies of my not so youthful days. Most recently this was a:

1995 Rabbit Ridge Zinfandel (Russian River Valley Estate Reserve Rabbit Ridge Ranch) 13.8%

I used to drink an occasional Rabbit Ridge that I bought at the grocery store, lots of the jammy stuff a bit too much wood but fun once in a while. I must have stuck one in a box and there it was a decade later. While the wine threw some sediment, the color and aroma had not changed much (little evidence of the zin turning into cab effect that I have only observed with old Ridge). The odd feature was the texture...there was an odd sensation on the tongue as if there were gaps in the once complete jammy nature. The wine was possibly a bit better when I tried again after a few days in the fridge.

Not a wine I would buy again, but not nearly as awful as I had feared.

 

[Claude Kolm]

Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

 

[maureen]

and here I thought, from the thread's caption, that this was going to be another free-marketer seeing the error of his ways, like greenspan

 

[Steve Edmunds]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

Claude Kolm, I do believe you've undergone a fundamental personality change! In a good way!

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by Steve Edmunds:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

Claude Kolm, I do believe you've undergone a fundamental personality change! In a good way!

I represent that comment!

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Cole Kendall:

1995 Rabbit Ridge Zinfandel (Russian River Valley Estate Reserve Rabbit Ridge Ranch) 13.8%

Rabbit Ridge was taken to task at one point for mislabelling wines. Who knows if what you had was mostly Zinfandel, or mostly from the Russian River Valley.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Steve Edmunds:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

Claude Kolm, I do believe you've undergone a fundamental personality change! In a good way!

It's the monkification of all Disorderlies. Exhibit A is FlaJim. Claude would be B.

You will be assimilated.

 

[Florida Jim]

originally posted by VLM:
It's the monkification of all Disorderlies. Exhibit A is FlaJim. Claude would be B.

You will be assimilated.

I think of it as being open minded.
BTW, "monkification" is an adjective you may want to be careful with.
Best, Jim

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Florida Jim:

originally posted by VLM:
It's the monkification of all Disorderlies. Exhibit A is FlaJim. Claude would be B.

You will be assimilated.

I think of it as being open minded.
BTW, "monkification" is an adjective you may want to be careful with.
Best, Jim

I should be careful with ALL adjectives with this pedantic crowd.

I'm only semi-literate.

Fuck you too, good buddy!

 

[Steve Edmunds]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Steve Edmunds:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

Claude Kolm, I do believe you've undergone a fundamental personality change! In a good way!

It's the monkification of all Disorderlies. Exhibit A is FlaJim. Claude would be B.

You will be assimilated.

I can feel myself sliding already!

 

[Sharon Bowman]

You guys are all going for tonsures? Wow. Super hard-core. Kudos, I guess.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
You guys are all going for tonsures? Wow. Super hard-core. Kudos, I guess.

For some of us, it's less a matter of conscious choice than age and genetics.

Mark Lipton
(Will brown sackcloth make me look fat?)

 

[Cole Kendall]

Monkification is not for me; I am merely repenting in a laic sort of way

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by maureen:
and here I thought, from the thread's caption, that this was going to be another free-marketer seeing the error of his ways, like greenspan

I orignally thought it was going to be about mistakes in making tortellini.

 

[Dan McQ]

Better Monkification than Monktonification, I always say.

 

[Bwood]

originally posted by maureen:
and here I thought, from the thread's caption, that this was going to be another free-marketer seeing the error of his ways, like greenspan

Just how unbelievable is Greenspan's recent testimony? People treated him like he was a genius. It turns out he believed a lot of sophomoric Ayn Randish claptrap that most college juniors wouldn't believe and periodically went before Congress and spoke seriously and in a language designed to subtly signal without saying much at all. Watching him testify was like watching the curtain be pulled back on the wizard in The Wizard of Oz.

 

[Florida Jim]

originally posted by Dan McQ:
Better Monkification than Monktonification, I always say.

You ain't the only one that made that leap.
Best, Jim

 

[drssouth]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Steve Edmunds:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
Clearly a case of wine that was picked underripe. Had the alcohol been 17.8% (or higher) the wine would have been immortal.

Or is that immoral?

Claude Kolm, I do believe you've undergone a fundamental personality change! In a good way!

It's the monkification of all Disorderlies. Exhibit A is FlaJim. Claude would be B.

You will be assimilated.

e

 

[Eden Mylunsch]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
You guys are all going for tonsures? Wow. Super hard-core. Kudos, I guess.

Not me. I had my tonsures removed in my youth! I've since undergone a refoliation process, aided by occasionally wearing a hairshirt on the assumption that it might make me be more hirsute (but not like I need a bikini wax for my back or anything)

-Eden (a big believer in positive visualization )

 

[Andrew Zachary]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by maureen:
and here I thought, from the thread's caption, that this was going to be another free-marketer seeing the error of his ways, like greenspan

I orignally thought it was going to be about mistakes in making tortellini.

Tortellini/Tortelloni, both sound like a Grouch Marx playing a lawyer in Night at the Opera.