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Where is everyone..?

Posted: 20:32 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
Quiet here tonight isn't it? You'd almost think everyone was drinking Fonseca 85 slops out of saucers, somewhere South of the River.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:40 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by AW77
I'm not drinking F85 tonight either. So you're not alone. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. :)

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:43 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
Hello André. Are you having anything or is this a dry evening?

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:50 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
Hello.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:51 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
Same question to you Owen.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:56 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by AW77
djewesbury wrote:Hello André. Are you having anything or is this a dry evening?
As this is a weekday evening, it is dry as always.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:57 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
You are a true stoic.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:57 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
I seem to have drunk everything. Now going to search the larder, I may be reduced to the cooking brandy.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 21:59 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
I have a Cabernet Merlot from somewhere in Eastern Europe on the go (Wine Society random selection). Perhaps Slovenia. It's rather good.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:08 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
Maybe I need to do an Andre, forsake sack and live cleanly.

Thought I'd found the end of a Fonseca organic port, but no it's empty.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:09 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by djewesbury
I don't like that Terra Prima. I've only tasted it a couple of times but it didn't impress.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:10 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by AW77
Owen, with all the wine you have at home I don't believe one word you say. There must be something to drink in your household. :)

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:11 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
It made me think of Merlot, not in a good way. A bit margeriney.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:13 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:Owen, with all the wine you have at home I don't believe one word you say. There must be something to drink in your household. :)
Well I did have these two bottles of Riesling but now the temperature has dropped I put them in the car as anti-freeze.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:15 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
Perhaps I should use this period of calm reflection to ask Populus Tremula why he has named himself after the Aspen, or is it the Linden which trembles?

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:16 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by AW77
LGTrotter wrote:
AW77 wrote:Owen, with all the wine you have at home I don't believe one word you say. There must be something to drink in your household. :)
Well I did have these two bottles of Riesling but now the temperature has dropped I put them in the car as anti-freeze.
That's another thing I don't believe. You English are too polite for such an offensive thing. :)

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:17 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
It's the Aspen. Isn't there a bit of mythology about why it trembles?

Purely a rhetorical question I shall look it up myself.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:20 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
AW77 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
AW77 wrote:Owen, with all the wine you have at home I don't believe one word you say. There must be something to drink in your household. :)
Well I did have these two bottles of Riesling but now the temperature has dropped I put them in the car as anti-freeze.
That's another thing I don't believe. You English are too polite for such an offensive thing. :)
Indeed not. It is not something I will open late at night and on a whim. I think that it deserves a warmish day, when my mind is clear and I can give it my attention. I tend to drink cheap wines when distracted and in low spirits. (The cooking brandy being the lowest of spirits).

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 22:24 Mon 19 Jan 2015
by AW77
LGTrotter wrote:
AW77 wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
AW77 wrote:Owen, with all the wine you have at home I don't believe one word you say. There must be something to drink in your household. :)
Well I did have these two bottles of Riesling but now the temperature has dropped I put them in the car as anti-freeze.
That's another thing I don't believe. You English are too polite for such an offensive thing. :)
Indeed not. It is not something I will open late at night and on a whim. I think that it deserves a warmish day, when my mind is clear and I can give it my attention. I tend to drink cheap wines when distracted and in low spirits. (The cooking brandy being the lowest of spirits).
I would also suggest a lovely evening in May for your tasting. But isn't there a bottle of 5-year-old Madeira around? Like Blandy's Alvada (which I really like)? You seem to like Madeira, so no emergency supply in the house?

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 09:24 Tue 20 Jan 2015
by PopulusTremula
LGTrotter wrote:It's the Aspen. Isn't there a bit of mythology about why it trembles?

Purely a rhetorical question I shall look it up myself.
Indeed the Aspen. What can i say, i like trees, the smell, sound and colour of a forest, different depending on the predominating specie, season and time of day etc. Beats human made sensory stimuli any day. I suppose the handle has a nostalgic element as i don't often get the chance to indulge nowadays.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 17:58 Tue 20 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
PopulusTremula wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:It's the Aspen. Isn't there a bit of mythology about why it trembles?

Purely a rhetorical question I shall look it up myself.
Indeed the Aspen. What can i say, i like trees, the smell, sound and colour of a forest, different depending on the predominating specie, season and time of day etc. Beats human made sensory stimuli any day. I suppose the handle has a nostalgic element as i don't often get the chance to indulge nowadays.
I too like trees, which is why I noticed the the handle. Fortunately Somerset's full of them, not too many Aspen though. It's the noise and the quivering that intrigue me about them. One of my most effective ways of dealing with stress and troublesome questions is to walk through the beech woods with the dogs until all becomes clear.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 18:06 Tue 20 Jan 2015
by PopulusTremula
LGTrotter wrote: I too like trees, which is why I noticed the the handle. Fortunately Somerset's full of them, not too many Aspen though. It's the noise and the quivering that intrigue me about them. One of my most effective ways of dealing with stress and troublesome questions is to walk through the beech woods with the dogs until all becomes clear.
I wholeheartedly agree, ambrosia for the soul. I suppose those with a medical/health bent would also stress the positive effect of physical exercise whatever the intensity but to me it's more of a beneficial side effect when discussed in this context.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 00:49 Thu 22 Jan 2015
by LGTrotter
I walked for a couple of hours through the woods today, most refreshing.

Re: Where is everyone..?

Posted: 20:03 Thu 22 Jan 2015
by AW77
LGTrotter wrote:I walked for a couple of hours through the woods today, most refreshing.
Did you hug the trees and talk to them, too? :)