Thursday, 19 February 2009

Health Update: Wine

This is reassuring. I always knew they were bad news, those piddling little 125ml glasses, which you only ever seem to come across in France - you'd have thought the French would have more sense. Clearly the 125ml glass should be banned forthwith. Santé!
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8 comments:

  1. Brit19 February 2009 at 16:17

    I remember being very surprised in a little Annecy bar when I ordered "un verre de vin rouge, s'il vous plait."

    Out comes a bottle of absolute plonk from the fridge (!)... and then the tiniest glass you can imagine.

    "C'est tout?"
    "Oui, c'est tout."

    I did wonder if it was the special treatment pour les anglais.

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  2. malty19 February 2009 at 16:35

    Brit, chances are every bar in Annecy includes 25% of the lac's finest in their bottled products, fine and dandy though it looks there was a health scare some years ago (untreated sewage)
    Annecy's where I discovered the delights of Brachetto d'Acqui, (Italy's finest cold and fizzy.)
    Bugger glasses, straight out of the bottle's yer man.

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  3. Uncle Dick Madeley19 February 2009 at 17:37

    Couldn't agree more. I only drink wine from a proper old fashioned wooden bucket. It's how wine was always meant to be tasted.

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  4. Nige19 February 2009 at 18:13

    Wimps, the lot of you! Barrel, spigot, funnel, lie on your back, sorted.

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  5. Brit19 February 2009 at 18:43

    I have it raw. Handful of grapes washed down with a bottle of meths.

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  6. malty19 February 2009 at 18:57

    Would sir care to smell the cap ?

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  7. Brit19 February 2009 at 22:19

    Oh and now you tell me about the untreated sewage Malty. Six months ago I was swimming gleefully in the lac and remarking on how unsalty it tasted.

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  8. Anonymous20 February 2009 at 00:46

    They have those stupid little glasses here, too, in restaurants downtown that fancy themselves great cellars. Those places offer "flights" of wine -- four or five glasses of a type of wine to "accompany" whatever overpriced thing you chose to eat. You can't get a buzz on unless you take more than one "flight."

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