Wine

[Saras]

Originally posted by Felch
Yuppie lawyers who can't take a joke

Yea, I hate them as well!

[Elok]

I guess you got me.

Really, I only call them weird because they claim to like stuff that tastes doubleplusungood. There's nothing wrong with liking something that's genuinely appealing. If a guy thinks Beethoven was a better composer than some jerkoff writing elevator music, while I suppose he might be a snob, it's justifiable snobbery.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Elok
IMO most wine tastes horrendous even when it hasn't aged a day. Merlot, for example, is always basically purple ink. The whole wine industry is run by weird wine snobs who think wine shouldn't taste like it ever had grapes in it. No, it should have "notes of oak, nutmeg, honey and guava" or some crap like that. It doesn't matter what you say it tastes like, since all it really tastes like is bad wine. Deep inside, the wine critics know this too. They just pick random improbable flavors to describe each new bottle they review, so they can laugh quietly to themselves when they hear self-important bozos parroting their nonsense at parties and dinners. Like art snobs who think a guy dancing in manure while juggling kiwis is "subverting paradigms," they're a whole community built up around self-deception.

:yawn:

No need to insult people if you don't appreciate the same things as much as they do.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Asher
You're drinking your neighbour's grapejuice. With time you will graduate to real wine.

Here, let me piss in a bottle for you. You should detect subtle notes of cereal, chocolate and crackers, those being what I've eaten most recently. If you can't detect them, it's a sign your palate isn't sufficiently refined and you need to drink more of my piss.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Elok


Here, let me piss in a bottle for you. You should detect subtle notes of cereal, chocolate and crackers, those being what I've eaten most recently. If you can't detect them, it's a sign your palate isn't sufficiently refined and you need to drink more of my piss.

I'm not sure you understand biology very well.

PS: What cereal?

[Elok]

You ever eat asparagus, Asher? It smells the same going out as coming in. It doesn't follow that other foods should follow the same rule, but then it doesn't follow that grape wine should taste like two dozen other fruits (and some trees) that never came into contact with it either.

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, I didn't eat cereal this morning, I had a couple of slices of bread. Usually I just shovel down some Cheerios.

[Saras]

dude, you have some tasting disorder. Asparagus tastes great.

[Elok]

Dude, you have some reading disorder. I didn't say it tastes like pee (though I don't care for asparagus, honestly). I've never consumed my own urine, believe it or not. I just said it makes your pee smell like asparagus when it comes out.

[Lorizael]

Sometimes I kind of miss having a sense of smell. I don't know if this is one of those times.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Elok
I guess you got me.

Admitting the pwnage:

[Elok]

To be fair, I have very sensitive set of nostrils and tastebuds that render a lot of foods unpleasant to me. Usually I don't blame people for liking, say, steamed crab, fried eggs or sauteed mushrooms; it's possible that whatever chemical compound makes their odor almost vomit-inducing to me is undetectable to a normal person. In the case of wine, however, the overpowering taste of indescribable nastiness found in most of them is too strong for me to believe people can taste cherries and blueberries and who-knows-what but somehow fail to notice the subtle hints of ASS.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Elok
Dude, you have some reading disorder. I didn't say it tastes like pee (though I don't care for asparagus, honestly). I've never consumed my own urine, believe it or not. I just said it makes your pee smell like asparagus when it comes out.

yea. Sorry

[Imran Siddiqui]

Back to the topic at hand...

Pinot Noir
Cabernet Sauvingnon

Though in the summer months, a nice Reisling (at least those that aren't overwhelmingly sweet) or dry chardonney are very nice.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Elok
In the case of wine, however, the overpowering taste of indescribable nastiness found in most of them is too strong for me to believe people can taste cherries and blueberries and who-knows-what but somehow fail to notice the subtle hints of ASS.

Would you just take my word for it?

[Elok]

It's kind of hard to do. It's as though you pointed straight at the sun and said, "Hey, look, a single small bird!" How do your senses fail to take in such massive quantities of data while noticing such small things (which should not even exist in something made only from grapes)?