Waddaya mean when ya SAY something?

Hi Luca

You could justify it by saying that it grows "vers Menton", that would even convince the French to stop using the name Rolle...

;-)

Wow!! You have Gravenstein apples, Nils? They were/are a staple of the Sonoma Valley in CA, but alas have succumbed to the increase in vineyard plantings: prime orchard land makes prime vineyard land, too. A good Gravenstein is a thing of beauty (they also make possibly the *best* applesauce).

Jean has a particular problem with Poland, bearing as she does a Polish surname. Because her surname ends in "i," and because her first name is commonly asssociated with French men, she was constantly confronted with people who'd assumed that she was a man until such time as they laid eyes on her -- amusing at first, but the experience gets old quickly...

Just imagine how much more they would charge had it been a properly aged bottle of Latour, say the '61. ;-)

Mark Lipton