What Was Your Most Recent Bottle of Wine?
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This type of badly written article really annoys me.
In the new study, researchers from the University of Milan and other centres in the US, France, Canada, Iran and Sweden, estimated that, in one year alone, 24,000 deaths from oesophageal cancer, 5,000 from oral and pharyngeal, and 5,000 from breast cancer, were due to light drinking.
The other point is that these articles never indicate what the effect is on average life expectancy. Sometimes the average effect on this is trivial (though for some individuals that is far from the case, of course).
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Yes. How many worldwide/developed country deaths are caused annually due to obesity and eating too many chips and consuming other junk foods?
Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Anna
Originally posted by french frank View PostCoop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
So, look out that corkscrew, pour yourself a generous glass or two - and let us know! - I'm always up for a drinkable house claret!!!
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... well, if it's a decent claret - I think many of us might like to know!
So, look out that corkscrew, pour yourself a generous glass or two - and let us know! - I'm always up for a drinkable house claret!!!
I suspect 'claret' rather dignifies it in that I would expect something a bit better than a vin de pays. It does, however, call itself an 'appellation d'origine protégée' - so that's all right then!
This medium-bodied red wine has dark damson fruit flavours and an attractive early edge (). Serve at room temperature with grilled lamb [what else? - Ed], or with cheese. Drink within 12 months 12.5% vol.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... discuss.
[ I shall propose this as a possible question for prospective Philosophy candidates at future Oxford entrance examinations ... ]
Two favourites of mine in the "wine with every meal" stakes are this Minervois , and this wine from Puglia. Playing the deals/offers game and ordering a case at a time keeps the price down, I haven't bought a bottle of red from the supermarket for years now.
I've been a fan of wines from some of Spain's slightly lesser known (as they were then) wine regions since I started to discover them in the 1980s (in Spain) - from Extremadura, La Mancha, Catalonia etc.
Ribera del Duero for state occasions - birthdays, retirement......
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Originally posted by johnb View PostWorking my way through a case of Mas Coutelou's "7 rue de la Pompe" 2010.
Lovely stuff!
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PS I ordered a case of Mark Haisma's Croix des Champs 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin direct from his website earlier this year (at a significantly lower price than is now showing), on the basis of JR's recommendation, and was stunned when Mark Haisma himself delivered it to me a month or so ago. He explained that, when in the UK, he lives in Wiltshire and was doing the local deliveries himself. (Nice bloke too.)
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Osborn
Originally posted by french frank View PostIt does, however, call itself an 'appellation d'origine protégée' - so that's all right then!
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