I think good wine should contain BEER !!!!

Why are you drinking cow piss??

Hey Dan, do you have any favorite blends to recommend?

Salut/Hi Andrew Goldfinch,

A word of advice. before responding to drivel, look to see if it has been cross posted. If so, it is almost certainly a deliberate troll, and the _only_ appropriate response is NONE. (You can complain to their ISP if you feel like it). Anything else plays directly into their hands. It is a truism in NGs that replying to an off-topic post is itself off topic and is as reprehensible as the original post.

I use fairly sophisticated anti-troll filters in my newsreader, and I'd not have read this, had you not replied to it.

A troll is irresistible.

More likely the other way around. Baladin in Piozzo (Piemonte) makes one of Italy's (rare) great beers, and one of their beers has Barolo must added...

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

As many winemakers have told me, it takes a lot of good beer to make good wine.

Every month or so, using a fictitious name, this troll floods 5000 newsgroups (all cross-posted to a single low-traffic but unrelated newsgroup) with superficially relevant comments. The purpose is to disrupt with off-topic crosspostings.

Like all trolls, he means to annoy and disrupt. The tracking newsgroup is the way he "keeps score" of how much damage he has caused. Don't put yourself on display in his trophy case. Like all trolls, the way to handle him is to IGNORE him.

Browse the is.matur newsgroup, his current score card, for Dan Simper.

Browse the scot.tld newsgroup, his current score card, for Bruno Beam.

He is known as the "anagram troll" because his fictitious names are often discovered to be anagrams (for example "Dan Simper" is an anagram of "spare mind", Bruno Beam is an anagram of "Unabomber").

This guy is a serious troll with a serious problem. Don't be one of his trophies.