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(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:08, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
Also, the year may be important. But more the screwtop nonsense.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:10, Reply)
Around one in ten cork-topped bottles of wine is corked - and around, errr, none in ten screw capped ones.
Cork fans are either blinded by nostalgia or simply ill-informed, pretentious arseholes like you. x
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:16, Reply)
No chance of cork taint when you don't have a cork, eh?
Corks are shit, they were all that anyone could think of using back in the day but to still do so today is like insisting on tilling fields by hand.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:19, Reply)
could be faster than modern methods
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:21, Reply)
OK, the amount of water and sunlight and whther or not you used forced growth and chemical fertilisers "might" have a bearing, but not as much as whether you dug the ground by hand or machine!!
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:21, Reply)
Corks, on the other hand can utterly ruin it.
Yes, the year "may" be important.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:18, Reply)
It was reasonably interesting (plus I got royally hammered) if only for finding out that the law of diminishing returns applies. A £50 bottle of wine is only slightly better than a £20 bottle, and the "sweet spot" of price/quality is about £15-20.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:23, Reply)
All I got from the nose was "this smells like wine".
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:28, Reply)
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:31, Reply)
To a certain extent people are just trying to decribe the nuances of flavour but there's a whole heap of Emperor's New Clothesing going on that flids like Alan here lap up.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:41, Reply)
Sometimes you just want to say, sod all this wine, just give me a pint of, mineral water.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:44, Reply)
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:49, Reply)
Or use a straw.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:44, Reply)
Plus he has me on 2.0 so this whole thing is a right pain in the arse.
(, Tue 21 May 2013, 10:24, Reply)
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