The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a bottle of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't lose much."
Fred.
New comers to wine learn in time to take the moth out and throw it away and drink the wine. After all the alcohol in the wine does sterilize it. Us old drinkers take the moth out and lick it before we throw it away.
Why didn't she simply remove it with a spoon?
At least that's what's is done regularly in Europe.
M.
Women these days, geeezzz.. A while back my wife and I were outdoors on the patio grilling and enjoying a glass of wine. And she was playing with this bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass. We just exchanged glasses.....
Mike
Most likely a Chateau Lamothe Bergeron...
Mike
Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link
After running 26.2 miles through the vineyards of the Medoc last month, and seeing what runners do perodically during the course, I always wonder about the special terroir of those vines closest to the road.
I've got one of those for the garden, where we do a lot of wine meals in the summer (it does flies and mosquitoes pretty well, but just stuns the wasps so you have to tromp them for good measure).
One guy was so enthused about it he scored an 'own goal' on his own full wine glass. We took it away from him before he could cause anymore damage. Fortunately I wasn't sitting beside him when he did it!
Not possibly the same Ron Natalie from the BRL? One of the longest respected contributors on the newsgroups? Prominent in archives both public and private?
Or a younger generation (there has been time enough) -- long distance running etc.
Or if there is no connection, please accept my apologies. I see so few of the earlier contributors ... (Never did locate R. C. Dunn, and inevitably some of the old names -- Larry Lippman for one -- are no longer with us at all.)
M. Hauser (O.F.)
Don't tell them about all the critters that get into the open fermenters: Wasps, lady beetles, elder bugs, various spiders.... The other day I fished a preying mantis egg case out of a bin of cold-soaking merlot.
Andy
That's me. The only other Ronald Natalie you're likely to see is my father (who also was with me in the Medoc, drinking but not running).
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