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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:42 PM
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So what kind of wine do Freepers drink?
Apparently, a lot of Yellow Tail. interesting reading.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189086/posts?q=1&&page=1
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:43 PM
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1. Anything that comes in a box!
I'm the wine in the box...
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:51 AM
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23. I disagree
It has become common practice to sell good young wines in five-liter Bag-in-Box packages.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:44 PM
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26. Really?
Well, then perhaps the freeps can drink some 20/20.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:40 PM
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32. yes
Of course those wines aren't great, but offer great value for their price. The bag-in-box has the major advantage that no air gets to the wine - unlike a canister.
However one doesn't find them in retail outside of France; in my neck of the woods wine stores fill them up directly from a cask.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:51 PM
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35. FWIW
...Hardy's is putting their wholly satisfactory $9/bottle chard into bags-in-boxes. Having done the "let's try all the Aussie chards under $10" taste-test, theirs was my fave. Haven't tried it out of the box yet, but I'm sure it's just fine.

Lord help us all if I put a box in my fridge. A little too much wine access. :D
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:45 PM
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2. Judging from the vitriolic bile that fills them, it's pretty bitter wine.
NT
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:47 PM
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3. yeah, quite an endorsement, huh?
"preferred by nine out of ten knuckledraggers"
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:48 PM
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4. Like Caustic Red Whine from Brown and Root Valley
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 10:55 PM
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5. Thunderbird!
"It was a good week, though" - Robin Williams, refering to Thunderbird wine.
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rlev1223 Donating Member (593 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 06:11 PM
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38. MD 20-20
Mad Dog
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:02 PM
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6. Uh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the "beer" kind??????? n/t
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:10 PM
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7. as long as it's not a beer-deaux
sorry.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:00 AM
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8. Thunderbird
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VoteDemocratic2004 Donating Member (691 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:05 AM
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9. Fat Bastard Wine
:shrug:
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:09 AM
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10. I think it's spelled "whine", and they indulge often.
n/t
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ParanoidPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:11 AM
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11. Kidney!
:evilgrin:
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lagniappe Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:24 AM
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12. Hawk de Poulet.
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St. Jarvitude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:40 AM
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13. Champale?
I dunno :shrug:
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:43 AM
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16. Do they even still make that stuff?
End of Line?
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JSJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:35 AM
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14. screw-top wine n/t
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:42 AM
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15. "The Sound of O'Reilly's Voice" brand.
The vinyard offers a vintage "Hannity" too.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:55 AM
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17. Pruno. n/t
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 02:01 AM
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18. Fuggin' Doofuses.
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 02:02 AM by impeachdubya
To: 68skylark
Why in the world would anyone in the USA drink wine from France when Sonoma County California produces the finest wines in the world. I just spent my usual 5 days there restocking. NONE FINER ANYWHERE!

14 posted on 08/10/2004 7:31:38 PM PDT by TaMoDee

Apparently TaMoDee hasn't heard about how we vote, up here in Northern California.

There's one yahoo on there who refuses to buy CA wines, but the rest seem fairly resigned to the fact that every climate that has decent enough weather to produce wine also has a populace intelligent enough not to support their pigheaded, reactionary agenda. Sorry kids!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 04:12 AM
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19. That wine they learned to make from "Animal"
whilst they were guests of the state all those years back.

Steal a box of raisins and two packs of sugar from the mess hall every day for the next six months. When you have enough, use your spoon to cut them in half.

Now steal a plastic bag from the cleaning closet and line your toilet with it. Add some water, the grapes and the sugar, stir and leave set for a few days. Use your next door cellmate's toilet during the fermentation cycle. (He gets half.)

Now that they're out of the joint, they don't have to wait six months to get a buzz on.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 04:14 AM
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20. Every freeper's favorite oenophile site...
http://www.bumwine.com/
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 04:30 AM
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21. Boones.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:50 AM
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22. French "Leftist Government" ?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

Roughly on par with the comments about the wines. Reading some of it makes me wonder: how many of those posters would describe themselves as "compassionate Christians"?
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 06:18 AM
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24. We,Freepers only drink one thing:
Moonshine!
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 06:22 AM
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25. KoolAid
with grain alcohol.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:56 PM
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27. "That Night Train's a mean wine"
Freepers who've been over here and noticed we have a NightTrain have switched to Ripple, however... :-)
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shadu Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:00 PM
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28. Cuvee du Oldstyle
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:20 PM
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29. I heard this same crap from some of my relatives this past weekend and
the comment,'we can continue to drink yellowtail and the Italian wines'. This comment came after the 'wonder what the French think of Chirac now' and general agreement to still hate the French.

Some of my family members must be posting at Freak Republic.

The shame, the shame, the shame.
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 01:33 PM
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30. jim beam
Wine is for the homeless and btw get a job.
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 02:33 PM
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31. and a haircut dammit
n/t
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:48 PM
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33. Chef Boyardeaux, NASCARbernet, White Trashfindel...
...Chateau Doubleweid, I Can't Believe it's not Mad Dog, etc. etc. etc. :)
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:50 PM
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34. Leifbraumlich: The Choice of Nazis
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 05:54 PM
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36. Franzia
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69KV Donating Member (444 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 06:00 PM
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37. Freepers dont drink wine, they drink "whine"
"Waaaaah! A liberal stepped on my widdle toe when I was in kindergarten so I hate liberals! Waaaah!"
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 06:13 PM
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39. 2004 was a vintage year!
:evilgrin:
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