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"Ed Rasimus" > wrote in message
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>I thought this was a fascinating item in the Wall Street Journal
> yesterday:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...282653628.html
>
> It makes me feel a bit better about my raspberry, strawberry,
> blueberry, chocolate, smoke and vanilla palette! Oh, with some notes
> of citrus, grapefruit, leather, tobacco, cigar box, merde, old
> overcoat, cardboard, wet dog and cat pee...
>
> I think the making of much ado over something has been unmasked at
> least a bit. What say you?



Very interesting, I always feel a bit of a dickhead when someone mentions 6
or 7 aromas on a fine claret. I struggle with 3 or 4, on a good day with a
following wind., after 35 years of wine tasting and drinking!

JT from a very wet and windy UK