TN: 2004 Arbor Mist Raspberry Merlot

101.26? 101.26? Are you INSANE?!?!?!?! There's no way this wine is over 100.75, NO WAY. The problem of course is that the nose is indeed Dusenberg exhaust, but Roadster, not Phaeton. Making the Arbor Mist clearly inferior to true 101+ wines such as the '79 Annie Green Springs Apple. Dale

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Now you're talking Dale. Nothing like a fried boloney sandwich and a glass of Annie Green! Bi!!

"Mark Lipton" in message ...........

Prof. Lipton, this is your final warning.

This is an international ng - some of us reside in particularly advanced parts of the world.

You post appeared at 4:30am on 2nd April.

Or is the whole of April "fools month" in the U.S.

AB

p.s. Got a card from J & S. They just loved Hawkes Bay.

You Annie Green Springs drinkers are all alike, Dale: nattering nabobs of negativism, the lot of ya! Not all of us winos are able to cellar such trophy items, ya snob. It's White Zins at dawn, Dale.

Mark Lipton

Annie Green Springs *was* such a nice wine before it was Parkerized into such an over-oaked, over-extracted monster.

Sigh.

Dana

Salut/Hi st.helier,

le/on Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:33:29 +1200, tu disais/you said:-

Only for George dubya.

Go back to cuddling sheep, bleeding kiwi, if that's all you can say to my good friend the perfessor.

What a mismatch! I thought everyone knew that possum stew cries out for for a Krover Nacktarsch. It is a pity you live so far way, or I could have sent you a lovely Kendermann Krover Nacktarsch 1974 even though it is my only bottle. I hope you also served candied sweet potatoes with plenty of brown sugar cherries, and marshmallows. Also you should have had Boston Musical Society Baked Beans. These are made the same as Boston Baked Beans, except 4 batches of beans are used. After the first beans are soaked and boiled, the beans are discarded and the liquid is used to soak and cook more beans. When you reach the last batch of beans, you reduce all of the cooking liquid and mix it with the beans. This makes a very unusual dish, and after an hour or so you will learn how it got this special name.

You mean that you actually have clocks and calendars in NZ???? And I had thought that you used sundials on those 1-2 days in which the daystar was actually visible in Kiwiland.

No, that's the first Tuesday in November, silly boy!

I'm not surprised. My cards will probably arrive next month... :(

Best wishes to you and Kathryn, Mark Lipton

Carefull Mark, this was exactly what Rick Mercer did here in Canada on his segment 'Talking to Americans'.... Had third year Yale sudents congratulating Canada on finally adopting the 24hr clock & legalizing insulin..... An EVERYONE knows that Raspberry Arbor mist should be paired with corn dogs & a 'squirt' chaser....jeez..... On that note, I watched with horror, just the other night, as a woman (with the most obscene chest job I've ever seen) add ginger ale to her glass of Holy Trinity G.S.M..... If she'd only asked, I'd have told her that G.S.M. should only ever be mixed with tonic water.... some people!

Mark (and thou tooist venerable Anglohungarofrancophile M. Oharr...)

You would not believe it - March (vintage month in these fair antipodean shores) has been the driest since records began in 1,234bc - a mere 1mm here in Auckland and zero in both Hawkes Bay and Marlborough if rumours are correct (my carrier pigeons died from dehydration!!!!!)

But not unbearably hot - so looking forward to some great Sauvignon from both Palliser and Wither Hills.

But, 31 whole days of sunshine!!!!!

So, perhaps you (and SHMBO - immigration will reject your entry if you should come alone) should consider March/April as the best time for a return visit?)

Nope - they will bring them - at least they can fit them in their uggage - do not expect anything larger!!!!!

Thank you my friend - likewise to you and yours.

AB

"Cwdjrx _" in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3174.bay.webtv.net...

Indeed indeed. Reminds me of the 1996 experimental hot-spicy rehydrated-chickpea cassoulet whose side effects were horrible, devastating. Still, merely physical, not spiritual, not one of those life traumas like the rotten black Chinese mushroom I once bit innocently in Ithaca, New York, leaving me changed -- entire dimensions of wretchedness in flavor unimaginable to the fortunate inexperienced whom chance spares.

There is even a small specialty cooking literature of the designedly off-putting. Helen Gurley Brown's "Ghastly Eggs" recipe is famous in the US, in part thanks to the Sterns' observant reprinting of it. (The Sterns are better known for their _Encyclopedia of Bad Taste_ with its 110 engaging small articles: fake fur, stretch limousines, Gabor sisters, Liberace, etc., containing amazing details.) Given energy and an occasion, I'll quote that recipe, but someone else is welcome to do so too. It IS wine-related.

Salut/Hi Cwdjrx _,

le/on Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:51:45 -0600 (CST), tu disais/you said:-

Ah... I'll ask my friend Michael Loo about these. He's a viola player who lives in Boston, I wonder if he's suffered through them!

Perhaps not. He's got the most incredibly resistant constitution of anyone I know. As well as knowing more about cooking, wine, bridge and mycology.