Lionel,
Just curious, are you an oenophile?

The reason being, I have always had a skeptical attitude towards fine
wine, probably because I don't like it and don't drink it.

So my question is, do you feel that you perceive subtle differences in
wine that are not well quantified?

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Robert Morein - - samedi 17 Avril
2004
16:13 wrote:

Lionel,
Just curious, are you an oenophile?

The answer is obvisouly yes because your question is put in the only
possible way for me.

Unfortunately, it is not possible for me, because I am strongly allergic to
wine. It causes discomfort in both the sinuses and the stomach.

A tale for you:

Once, I was driving through the south of France. Entering at Strausbourg, I
drove toward Switzerland.
I stopped at a small village for the night, where no one spoke English.
Regrettably, I have not learned French.
This was a wine-growing village; the men worked in the fields in the day and
came home to the village at night.
Nevertheless, they had an "Inn", which had no available rooms, but a pretty
good dining room such as you would not likely find in Oklahoma .
Being allergic to wine, I could not drink what everyone else in the dining
room was drinking.
So I asked for Coca-Cola.
There were murmurs. Everyone was looking at the stranger.
Then a big, very BIG man gets up, and he "makes a muscle" in his arm, and he
says,
"Vine. El vine! Popeye!"

I assume you are familiar with "Popeye the Sailor Man", who ate spinach for
strength.

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Robert Morein - - samedi 17 Avril
2004
16:13 wrote:

Lionel,
Just curious, are you an oenophile?

The answer is obvisouly yes because your question is put in the only
possible way for me.

Unfortunately, it is not possible for me, because I am strongly allergic to
wine. It causes discomfort in both the sinuses and the stomach.

A tale for you:

Once, I was driving through the south of France. Entering at Strausbourg,
(which I don't know how to spell) after a week in the Hitler Youth Camp at
Heidelberg, I drove toward Switzerland. Basel is only about 30 minutes
away, but I stopped at a small village for the night, where no one spoke
English so I could tell myself "I've visited France"!
Regrettably, I have not learned French because I only know German and of
course the two don't go together.
This was a wine-growing village; the men worked in the fields in the day and
came home to the village at night. Duh.
Nevertheless, for some reason these hard working French people had an "Inn",
which had no available rooms, but a pretty good dining room such as you
would not likely find in Oklahoma .
Being allergic to wine, I could not drink what everyone else in the dining
room was drinking. So I asked for Coca-Cola.
There were murmurs, then shrieks of laughter. Everyone was looking at the
asshole mommys-boy American jew.
Then a big, very BIG man gets up, and he "makes a muscle" in his arm, and he
says,
"Vine. El vine! Popeye!" I guess he looked at my scrawny little physique,
which never developed any muscle since I've been sitting in the same room in
mommy and daddy's house my whole life, and was trying to help me out of my
poor wretched life. Here I am, driving around France alone because I don't
have one solitary friend in the world, being mocked by working class jew
haters.

I assume you are familiar with "Popeye the Sailor Man", who ate spinach for
strength. I hated that cartoon.

The Devil said:

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:43:44 +0200, Lionel
wrote:

The answer is obvisouly yes because your question is put in the only
possible way for me. I am a wine *lover*, your word is perfect I am one of
the hundred million oenophiles... but surely no an oenologist.

I thought you were an onanist.

And I thought you were ornery.

Boon

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Robert Morein - - samedi 17 Avril
2004
17:50 wrote:


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Robert Morein - - samedi 17 Avril
2004
16:13 wrote:

Lionel,
Just curious, are you an oenophile?

The answer is obvisouly yes because your question is put in the only
possible way for me.

Unfortunately, it is not possible for me, because I am strongly allergic
to wine. It causes discomfort in both the sinuses and the stomach.

What's a pity.

A tale for you:

Once, I was driving through the south of France. Entering at
Strausbourg,
I drove toward Switzerland.
I stopped at a small village for the night, where no one spoke English.
Regrettably, I have not learned French.
This was a wine-growing village; the men worked in the fields in the day
and came home to the village at night.
Nevertheless, they had an "Inn", which had no available rooms, but a
pretty good dining room such as you would not likely find in Oklahoma
.
Being allergic to wine, I could not drink what everyone else in the
dining
room was drinking.
So I asked for Coca-Cola.
There were murmurs. Everyone was looking at the stranger.
Then a big, very BIG man gets up, and he "makes a muscle" in his arm,
and
he says,
"Vine. El vine! Popeye!"

I assume you are familiar with "Popeye the Sailor Man", who ate spinach
for strength.

Yes the wine has the same "hypothetic" vertues than spinach.
I remember when I was young that old people said "It's good for the blood"
Like the legendary Fe concentration in spinach.

BTW certain wines are very good preventive medecine against
cardio-vascular
deceases. Have you hear about the "French exception" ?

Yes. I take "resveratrol" as a supplement.
It is thought to be one of the active ingredients in wine.
No fun, but no allergy.