One quiz at a time

Post by **DRT** » 21:52 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Owen is lurking. Perhaps he will help...

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:53 Sun 29 Sep 2013

A bottle of Sagres, not that it's right, or helps.

Post by **DRT** » 21:57 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Tangerine?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:58 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Neither is right. Oh god, someone please guess or I will have to

[william]

TELL

you.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:59 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Just seen the fruit thing. Fruit? with a bacon sarnie?

My brain has stopped. Thank god I don't have to guess.

I'm working with nothing here.

Avacado

Post by **DRT** » 21:59 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Apple?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:00 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Sorry that was out of turn. I'll go to the back again.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:01 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Pear, pear it's a ............. pear.

Post by **DRT** » 22:01 Sun 29 Sep 2013

No, you were ok.

Post by **DRT** » 22:02 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Apple chutney.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:03 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DEREK WINS THE PRIZE!

(There is no prize)

It was a russet apple from the abandoned, overgrown orchard in the gardens of the Palacio de Mateus - even the vines seem to be untended. It was a little unripe when I picked it but it was perfect today. The malic acid allowed me to make an observation about fermentation methods in white wines.

The prize is that DRT has to set a question.

Post by **DRT** » 22:05 Sun 29 Sep 2013

I am currently drinking a 5th growth Bordeaux. Name the shipper and vintage.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:07 Sun 29 Sep 2013

1996 Schroeder and schyler, (excuse the spelling)

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:08 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:I am currently drinking a 5th growth Bordeaux. Name the shipper and vintage.

Beaucastel 2004

Post by **DRT** » 22:11 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:1996 Schroeder and schyler, (excuse the spelling)

No. Sorry, "shipper" = "chateau" in this context, not negotiant.

Post by **DRT** » 22:13 Sun 29 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Bordeaux
Beaucastel

...and 2004 too old.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:14 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Funnily enough (going back to the fruit) this Tesco Bomfim 99 has a taste of green apples in the finish, which I've never noticed in port before. Meanwhile, on opening, RB, not having been told what it was, observed a smell of bananas, a smell she associates with freshly opened Dow. Is there a reason why Dow smells of bananas?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:15 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Bordeaux
Beaucastel

...and 2004 too old.

oh yeah. Sorry. Thinking about what was downstairs and got confused. Hold on..

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:16 Sun 29 Sep 2013

I have currently drunk half a bottle of champagne and some Sandeman 2007 LBV, so I may be misunderstanding the question (see William Tell clue earlier). If I have put be gently but painlessly out of my misery. Shippers of bordeaux I think of Shcroeder and whatsit or.........

Cordier 2001

OK seen the update; let us say instead Grand puy Ducasse 2000

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:16 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Clos de l'Oratoire 2009

Post by **DRT** » 22:18 Sun 29 Sep 2013

"RB"? Riebera?

If so, it could be potassium. Bananas are 10% potassium. Schist is high in potassium and Riebera wines are particularly "earthy" in that they seem to have a very high mineral content.

Post by **DRT** » 22:20 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Grand puy Ducasse 2000

Correct appellation, wrong Chateau and vintage.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:21 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:"RB"? Riebera?

If so, it could be potassium. Bananas are 10% potassium. Schist is high in potassium and Riebera wines are particularly "earthy" in that they seem to have a very high mineral content.

RB = Supreme Commander, Port-Drinking Forces on the Other Side of the Table.

I like your explanation. I'm just not buying it. This is a Bomfim also, sorry the RB confused you.

Post by **DRT** » 22:21 Sun 29 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Clos de l'Oratoire 2009

Vintage correct. Chateau and appellation incorrect.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:22 Sun 29 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:Clos de l'Oratoire 2009

You're playing with my fuddled senses, I'm sure I heard fifth growth.

Pedesclaux (spelling again) 2001

Post by **DRT** » 22:22 Sun 29 Sep 2013

djewesbury wrote:This is a Bomfim also, sorry the RB confused you.

"Bomfim" is Portuguese for "Banana".

Post by **DRT** » 22:26 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Pedesclaux (spelling again) 2001

No. Vintage (2009) already guessed by djewesbury.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:26 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:This is a Bomfim also, sorry the RB confused you.
"Bomfim" is Portuguese for "Banana".

Owen is clearly three sheets to the wind, I am four, our guesses are becoming very uncoordinated. I have no idea. Croizet Bages.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:27 Sun 29 Sep 2013

How dare you.

Batialley (ok the spelling has left as well)

Post by **DRT** » 22:29 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Batialley (ok the spelling has left as well)

Batailley 2009, and very nice it is too.

Owen's turn.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:29 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Haut-Batailley

Don't knock it, I'm twisted too...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:29 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Missed that. Excellent. Well done Owen.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:33 Sun 29 Sep 2013

What did I find in the hospital grounds today to eat?

DRT; what's the Batailey like? Couldn't quite bring myself to pay twice what I did for the lasst few vintages.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:34 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Rhubarb?

Post by **DRT** » 22:35 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:What did I find in the hospital grounds today to eat?

One of these?

Post by **DRT** » 22:37 Sun 29 Sep 2013

LGTrotter wrote:DRT; what's the Batailey like? Couldn't quite bring myself to pay twice what I did for the lasst few vintages.

My experience of drinking classed growth Bordeaux extends to just over two months. This tastes very nice to me and is recognisable as being from the same producer as the fabulous 1989 I had two nights ago.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:38 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Not_DRT wrote:Tomato ketchup?

This is cheating. No!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:39 Sun 29 Sep 2013

No and no, but DRT deserves a commendation for realising it was a psychiatric hospital.

I've been drinking my way through the batailley 2000s and 03s, dull as ditchwater for the most part.

Post by **DRT** » 22:39 Sun 29 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
Not_DRT wrote:Tomato ketchup?
This is cheating. No!

We were bored. You and LGTrotter had deserted us. The account was disabled immediately after its first and only use.

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:40 Sun 29 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Rhubarb?

This was a rubbish question for a now expired question. Oops.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:40 Sun 29 Sep 2013

I don't buy any classified Bordeaux much, it's part of the reason why I got into port.. the ludicrous prices.

Apples?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:41 Sun 29 Sep 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
Not_DRT wrote:Tomato ketchup?
This is cheating. No!

Please don't say we have to go back to the mindbender of portugese bacon fruit.

DRT; very wise.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:41 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Come on everybody. Let's pull ourselves together, shall we?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:43 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Oh and no, not apples.

Tell me when you're ready for a clue

I think we should all sing a song to pull ourselves together.

My milkshakes better than yours.............

Post by **DRT** » 22:44 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Mushrooms?

(which might explain a lot)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:45 Sun 29 Sep 2013

DRT has it.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:45 Sun 29 Sep 2013

Clearly something psychotropic..

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:46 Sun 29 Sep 2013

And no not the one's you are implying, that was all a long time ago.....

Post by **DRT** » 22:47 Sun 29 Sep 2013

I have been sitting playing this game and sniggering away to myself for nearly six hours with my other half sitting opposite me watching TV. Exactly how much trouble am I in?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:49 Sun 29 Sep 2013

THere is no right answer to a purely psychological question.

How much trouble do you think you are in? is the answer.