Insanity of the wine industry

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Cwdjrx _) wrote in news:16070-40735AEE-384 @storefull-3175.bay.webtv.net:

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There actually is a French company located in the Loire valley using

I went to the website and can find only a homepage with no links that I can detect. Am I missing something?

Vino To reply, add "x" between letters and numbers of e-mail address.

Vino wrote in news:jqn670pr3g8rc6qaf7c1qi8pivit3qi8qf@

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there is a place to click for the next page try this

IIRC, Cabernet Sauvignon _is_ a cross of those two.

Of course, we _could_ both be mistaken...

Tom S

I was wondering about that word too, but you used it with such authority that I assumed that it actually existed and I was an ignorant nincompoop for not recognizing it! All day long I'd been thinking that you were the European William F. Buckley Jr., and now my illusion is shattered...

S moT

Although the site I checked first indicated that the domain vegaindustries.com was available, another site indicates it is taken. If you go to

a redirect now takes you to their main page. The redirect was not working earlier in the day when I checked. Their firm is located in the Loire, and the site is in French. They have a form for asking questions. If someone who has a good command of French would contact them, they probaby could find out if they do have someone working for them with the address of snipped-for-privacy@vegaindustries.com.

Andrew, for me a troll are like TCA, you develop a nose for it. Three years ago I was still relatively insensitive to TCA, now I spot it right away. Same with trolls.

Much like TCA, about 5-10% of new posters exhibit trollish behaviour, at leasr initially.

And like TCA, with trolls you have to make sure you have a spare thread going on that can provide more satisfaction than this one that has become completely corked.

And as for Mr. Lipton, what the hell makes you an authority on chemistry ;-))))

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

Vincent

I don't claim to be an expert on winemaking (or even knowledgeable), but isn't there a difference between "adding sulfites" and "containing sufites", since this substance occurs naturally? Some may not use sufites, but the wines may have sufites present.

Tom Schellberg

Michael - of course you are right - but then again, a corked wine can simply be poured down the drain - this bozo has a long history of being more like a different sort of bad smell - one that simply won't go away !!!!

Mike, as you will remember, I had the great pleasure in hosting Prof. Lipton and M. & Mm Hoare here downunder - and I must confess that, at times, I was glad I was driving (and could pretend to be concentrating on the road!) because the depth of the conversation and knowledge was quite daunting.

I was really glad to get to the end of each day, when the scoring of the days wines were measured in Yums (otherwise known as the "Hoare Scale of the Sensual Evaluation of Wine.")

Regardz

AB

Being left wing socialists does not jibe with the almost universal contempt on this newsgroup for state laws limiting the free market sale and distribution of wines.

Let the state control the sale or distribution of wines? Readers here could hardly be called socialists.

Tom Schellberg

Got to love those 13% alcohol German Rieslings.. especially those fermented off-dry. Be sure to add lots of acid to balance the sweetness.

You may detect a bit of sarcasm in this statement.

Tom Schellberg

Yes, I have also hosted Dr. Lipton and his better half, and enjoyed their brilliant conversation and company.

As for Mr. Hoare, I have witnessed him telling the top wine critic in France, in the most polite and diplomatic way imagineable, with that wonderful english accent strongly colouring his grammatically perfect french, that basically what Monsieur world-authority-on-wine had just said about tokaji was a big load of parrot droppings. Unforgettable, wish I had it on film.

Anyhow, you are all welcome to Provence this summer, let me know.

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

Same goes for my bottles of Chateau Pierre Bise, 14.5 degrees in the Loire and still has some sugar left over. He surely added lemon juice to make it so zingy ;-))))

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

Tom, that is because you are not part of the religious left wing:-)

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Salut/Hi Cwdjrx _,

le/on Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:47:55 -0500 (CDT), tu disais/you said:-

Yup, it's a Macromedia Flash site, which takes over 45 seconds to load at

45kbd just for a pretty index page.

The company makes products for building facades, mortar, cement, etc. Not much directly to do with the wine industry, although it could be that they make epoxy and/or cement linings for concrete fermenting tanks.

Not really big enough to ask the right questions tactfully. I had a look at where the form sends messages and used that email address (contact at etc) to ask whether they've really got someone working for them using "his" nom de plume. The site gives the names of senior management, neither of whom have that Christian name, and phone numbers.

I wouldn't be surprised if I get a "mind your own business" reply.