The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a bottle
of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
lose much."

Fred.

Fred wrote:
> The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a bottle
> of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
> losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
> lose much."
>
> Fred.

New comers to wine learn in time to take the moth out and throw it away
and drink the wine. After all the alcohol in the wine does sterilize it.
Us old drinkers take the moth out and lick it before we throw it away.

Fred > wrote:

> She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
> losing that last glass of wine.

Why didn't she simply remove it with a spoon?

At least that's what's is done regularly in Europe.

M.

"Fred" > wrote in message
news:83Nbd.31491$hj.26697@fed1read07...
> The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a
bottle
> of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
> losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
> lose much."
>
> Fred.

Women these days, geeezzz.. A while back my wife and I were outdoors on the
patio grilling and enjoying a glass of wine. And she was playing with this
bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will
zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass. We just
exchanged glasses.....

Mike

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:49:56 GMT, Fred > wrote:

>The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a bottle
>of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
>losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
>lose much."

Most likely a Chateau Lamothe Bergeron...

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France
email link http://www.tommasi.org/mymail

JD wrote:

> Women these days, geeezzz.. A while back my wife and I were outdoors on the
> patio grilling and enjoying a glass of wine. And she was playing with this
> bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will
> zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass. We just
> exchanged glasses.....
>
After running 26.2 miles through the vineyards of the Medoc last month, and
seeing what runners do perodically during the course, I always wonder about
the special terroir of those vines closest to the road.

> she was playing with this
>bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will
>zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass.


I've got one of those for the garden, where we do a lot of wine meals in the
summer (it does flies and mosquitoes pretty well, but just stuns the wasps so
you have to tromp them for good measure).

One guy was so enthused about it he scored an 'own goal' on his own full wine
glass. We took it away from him before he could cause anymore damage.
Fortunately I wasn't sitting beside him when he did it!

"Ron Natalie" > wrote ...
> >
> After running 26.2 miles through the vineyards of the Medoc last month ...


Not possibly the same Ron Natalie from the BRL? One of the longest
respected contributors on the newsgroups? Prominent in archives both public
and private?

Or a younger generation (there has been time enough) -- long distance
running etc.

Or if there is no connection, please accept my apologies. I see so few of
the earlier contributors ... (Never did locate R. C. Dunn, and inevitably
some of the old names -- Larry Lippman for one -- are no longer with us at
all.)


M. Hauser (O.F.)

"JD" > wrote in message >...
> "Fred" > wrote in message
> news:83Nbd.31491$hj.26697@fed1read07...
> > The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a
> bottle
> > of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
> > losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
> > lose much."
> >
> > Fred.
>
> Women these days, geeezzz.. A while back my wife and I were outdoors on the
> patio grilling and enjoying a glass of wine. And she was playing with this
> bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will
> zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass. We just
> exchanged glasses.....
>
> Mike

Don't tell them about all the critters that get into the open
fermenters: Wasps, lady beetles, elder bugs, various spiders.... The
other day I fished a preying mantis egg case out of a bin of
cold-soaking merlot.

Andy

"JD" > wrote in message >...
> "Fred" > wrote in message
> news:83Nbd.31491$hj.26697@fed1read07...
> > The other night my girlfriend was about to drink the last glass of a
> bottle
> > of wine ('90 Marbuzet). She saw a moth floating in her glass. She lamented
> > losing that last glass of wine. I said "Compared to the moth, you didn't
> > lose much."
> >
> > Fred.
>
> Women these days, geeezzz.. A while back my wife and I were outdoors on the
> patio grilling and enjoying a glass of wine. And she was playing with this
> bug killer -- looks like a small tennis racquet -- battery powered and will
> zap a bee or bug. So, Zappppp and a wasp drops in her glass. We just
> exchanged glasses.....
>
> Mike

Don't tell them about all the critters that get into the open
fermenters: Wasps, lady beetles, elder bugs, various spiders.... The
other day I fished a preying mantis egg case out of a bin of
cold-soaking merlot.

Andy

Max Hauser wrote:
> "Ron Natalie" > wrote ...
>
>>After running 26.2 miles through the vineyards of the Medoc last month ...
>
>
>
> Not possibly the same Ron Natalie from the BRL? One of the longest
> respected contributors on the newsgroups? Prominent in archives both public
> and private?

That's me. The only other Ronald Natalie you're likely to see is my
father (who also was with me in the Medoc, drinking but not running).

Max Hauser wrote:
> "Ron Natalie" > wrote ...
>
>>After running 26.2 miles through the vineyards of the Medoc last month ...
>
>
>
> Not possibly the same Ron Natalie from the BRL? One of the longest
> respected contributors on the newsgroups? Prominent in archives both public
> and private?

That's me. The only other Ronald Natalie you're likely to see is my
father (who also was with me in the Medoc, drinking but not running).