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HUMOR: Wine Terms Explained
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Thu Nov 21 13:16:19 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 12:58:30 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Cc: vaganay@lirmm.fr (Vaganay Jerome)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:06:20 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: pgerring@netcom.com (Phillip E. Gerring)
From: Jay Gerring <jgerring@microsoft.com>
<fwds snobbed>
Wine Dictionary:
APPELLATION CONTROLEE: French for "Trust me"
AROMA: A bad smell that comes from the grapes; See BOUQUET
BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU: Wine so awful that it isn't worth aging.
BOUQUET: A bad smell that's added during processing; See NOSE
BRUT: Describes a wine that sneaks up on you and stabs you in the
back. Or a wine dealer. From the Latin, "Et tu, Brute"
CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE: The pope's new house was paid for by swindling
buyers into paying the price for this wine.
DRY: Hurts your throat while swallowing.
FRUITY: Tastes like children's cough medicine. See ROBUST
NOBLE ROT: What well-born wine snobs talk.
NOSE: The total effect of AROMA and BOUQUET; something you wish you
could hold while drinking.
ROBUST: Tastes like cough medicine. See FRUITY
ROSE: Many people mistakenly pronounce this to rhyme with Jose. A
term for a pinkish wine, named for what an early commentator said his
gut did when he tasted it.
VARIETAL: Having the worst qualities of a single type of grape,
rather than a mixture of sins.
VINTAGE: How many years have we been trying to get rid of this
rotgut?
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