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Post by lolo on Sept 19, 2013 3:38:04 GMT -6
I'm 250km under Paris...in the "land" of French red wine  ...Which I like so much....  Cheers. French cant make Red wine,can they? :-) |
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Post by levon on Sept 19, 2013 3:44:09 GMT -6
I'm 250km under Paris...in the "land" of French red wine ...Which I like so much.... Cheers. French cant make Red wine,can they? :-) Cruisin' for a bruisin'? But, yeah, I like South American red too. Some Spanish reds are not bad either. |
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Post by LesC on Sept 19, 2013 10:00:38 GMT -6
My wife wanted some cheap red wine to use for cooking. She has a sign in the kitchen that reads "I love to cook with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food". So we went to a local winery and bought the almost cheapest wine we could find, Magnotta oak-aged merlot, $7.95 a bottle. It's VQA, which means it passed certain Ontario quality tests. There are actually lots of high-quality boutique wineries in Ontario, mostly in the Niagara On The Lake region near Niagara Falls.
We got it home, tasted it, and it's the best red wine we've ever had. Goes down smooth, no bitter after-taste, we couldn't believe it. We have lots of parties, friends and acquaintances often bring their favourite red wines with them, French, Chilean, Spanish, Australian. All their wines are fine, but they are blown away when they try the Magnotta.
Unfortunately, we've yet to discover a great Ontario white wine.
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Post by b2 on Sept 20, 2013 2:48:30 GMT -6
Your All right !
I've tasted some months ago very nice red wine from Chili , australia ..and others country ..South American and Spanish red wine are "strong" one.
I like drinking much more red wine than white...here's we've got great white wine ...more "sugared" wine .
When I fire up a gear I've build....I always drink some glass of wine!!
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Post by LesC on Sept 20, 2013 7:20:13 GMT -6
b2, red wine often gives my wife a migraine, so we drink white wine more often.
Our favourite white wines are German rieslings, which can be sweet. We found a new favourite just a couple of weeks ago, Schmitt Sohne "Relax". We don't find it overly sweet, but wow, it is so smooth, no bitter aftertaste, it just goes down like water. My wife and her two nieces, who stay with us on weekends, will sometimes down 4 or 5 bottles at a sitting. Eventually it catches up with them, even though it's only 9% alcohol. It is a qualitatswein, so it's considered good quality, but it's semi-sweet so it's probably not suitable for "real" wine drinkers who tend to favour the drier varieties.
Ontario is great at producing ice wine, because of our crappy weather. Those are very, very sweet dessert wines, and quite delicious if you have a sweet tooth.
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Post by Mark Kano on Sept 21, 2013 14:23:40 GMT -6
Greensboro, NC. Represent!
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Post by bluenoise on Sept 22, 2013 19:28:28 GMT -6
buenos aires, argentina.
busy studio schedule + newborn do not leave much room for anything these days, but i promise to update my profile asap so that we can get to know each other a bit more.
cheers!!
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Post by lud on Sept 23, 2013 2:32:14 GMT -6
Lille, France. Soon in Lyon!
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Post by ElGato on Oct 2, 2013 8:50:09 GMT -6
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. So kinda in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by LesC on Oct 2, 2013 12:15:03 GMT -6
Canary Islands, wow! That's the kind of nowhere that I could appreciate. Welcome!
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Post by Shannon on Oct 3, 2013 0:45:53 GMT -6
Nashville aka Nashvegas US
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Post by ElGato on Oct 3, 2013 6:04:20 GMT -6
Canary Islands, wow! That's the kind of nowhere that I could appreciate. Welcome! Ha ha ha. Thanks for the welcome. Really nice place this one. I'd fancy a Toronto trip, too. My brother was there playing with his band and told me they had a great time. They walked through the place so much their feet hurt. |
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Post by LesC on Oct 4, 2013 6:48:22 GMT -6
If you're ever visiting Toronto, please let me know. Maybe I can drown myself in beer while you're talking about the beautiful Canary Islands.
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Post by ElGato on Oct 4, 2013 17:19:08 GMT -6
If you're ever visiting Toronto, please let me know. Maybe I can drown myself in beer while you're talking about the beautiful Canary Islands. That would be great, thanks. Let me know if you come by, too. |
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...Which I like so much.... 
