Comments on: Comment dites-vous “Boycott”?

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:51:18 +0000

The boycott myth lives on, brought to you by Ralph Peters. I bet he loves Languedoc wines too.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:57:07 +0000

There are hundreds of exquisite Languedoc wines. Go to Faugères next holiday I put it to you sir, that you live in France and have thus had your taste warped when it comes to French wines.

By: Dean Allen

Dean Allen — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 12:44:53 +0000

Davies, you ignorant slut. Plainly some pimply clerk down at Oddbins has pointed you to the creosote trucked away from Pays d’Oc co-ops and syndicates. There are hundreds of exquisite Languedoc wines. Go to Faugères next holiday. (Oy Nick, I found a Borie de Maurel at a shop in Montpellier – 2001 Cuvée la Feline. Kicked ass.)

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 05:30:25 +0000

So if you find your own companion for a Slow Dating do, do they charge you corkage?

By: Seb

Seb — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:07:16 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, but: “By the way, management will not be entering into any correspondence with apologists for Langeudoc wine.” But I swear there really IS some good wine made in Languedoc-Roussilon. I know this lovely little vineyard near Roujan where…

By: nick

nick — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 23:23:11 +0000

I know the management has slapped a noli me disputere on this, but there really are a few good Vins De Pays d’Oc (yeah, only for the price; yeah, I like Cuvée Mythique, and not just for the label.) And I’ll try and lower the bar with Gaillac, which never makes it into Oddbins for very good reason. Oldest vineyard in France, set up by the Romans? Tastes like it.

By: Jeremy Osner`

Jeremy Osner` — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:21:56 +0000

Hmmm… now I went back looking for two cups of wine and I don’t see that at all. Is it one really big glass (her hips/torso) and one really little one (her crotch)? Or what?

By: Antoni Jaume

Antoni Jaume — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:18:18 +0000

I don’t use to drink wine, still I saw two cups of wine à première vue. I rather feel the contrary of Eszter. DSW

By: eszter

eszter — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:32:15 +0000

dmm – I only saw the naked woman form at first, I had to force myself to figure out how it could be about wine.. if you try really hard you can see the glasses, but puhlease!

By: laura

laura — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:57:00 +0000

I took the wine personality test. Fabulous—very valuable information: YOU ARE… A MEDOC / GRAVES Elegant, but with backbone; you fancy verbal and sword-fencing. Your spiciness sometimes gets you in trouble, but you always know how to smooth things out. Intense relationships are your hallmark, so why not slow it down with dinner and a lingering kiss at the door? The following is a list of some appellations which correspond to your wine type: – Haut-Médoc – Listrac-Médoc – Moulis – Margaux – Médoc – Pauillac

By: Jeremy Osner`

Jeremy Osner` — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:30:03 +0000

PS. What kind of wine are you? I did not take the test but I imagine it would have come up Maneschevitz.

By: Jeremy Osner`

Jeremy Osner` — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:29:00 +0000

dmm—that was my reaction too. I think it is supposed to be a double-entendre wine bottle that also looks like a naked woman, but the double-entendre doesn’t really work because it does not look like a wine bottle.

By: dmm

dmm — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:50:58 +0000

So is the logo in the top corner of the CIVD website supposed to be that suggestive? “Be seduced” indeed.

By: des

des — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:38:29 +0000

That’s an easy one: “”” In a widely quoted but never clearly sourced remark, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is said to have proposed a formula to break up the anti-American European axis: Punish France, ignore Germany and forgive Russia. “”” Unless you actually meant “why?” , of course…

By: DaveVH

DaveVH — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 17:03:31 +0000

The French are ALLIES of Saddam!? OK, the French-bashing has got out of hand in the blogosphere, it seems. Every other blog I come across seems to go in for this nowadays. It’s fashionable, if that could possibly be an excuse. But it’s disproportionate. There’s no Russian or German-bashing as far as I can see, despite their efforts to block action in the UNSC before the war. Why concentrate on the French? These are strange days.