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I haven't been looking at this tread for quite some time, LMAO!!!
Nothing better for a troll to see than a goober "sword fight", LOL
IZON and Spey, ya'll need to Kiss and make up, HEHE!
Oh, and BTW, I didn't go back to watch the whole fight, but if'n you don't know about Missouri saving the French wine regions in the 1800's, the both of you should be ashamed!!
Seems we Southerners are more likely to be sweet wine drinkers, so we don't generally fit in, seems to be the only thing that can fit in with GOOD corn moonshine. Although, I'm sure the larger cities, like Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, et al have some fine sommeliers. I was raised helping one of my Grandaddies with his wine making. That usually consisted of a trial period whist young. SO, I passed the test and got to go to the well-house and "punch down" the cap on his fermenting batch of whatever on a daily basis if I was spending some time at their place.
The farm where our place burned is just a half mile from a winery that was started by a British Gas Physicist/Engineer, he's the one that found that "Fire Ice", Methane Hydrate on the sea floor and determined that it wasn't quite worth the value to try and "mine". He had a famous Grandfather in Britain as well. Long story short, he had never made a drop in his life when he started, so I got to help him out on his first attempts. Some funny stuff, just hearing him learn, panic and all the other things that happen when starting a winery. Sadly he passed quickly from cancer in '16.
Here's his obituary and it gives some of his recognitions and lifetime achievements, as well as mentioning the winery.
https://www.sheltonfuneralhomes.com/obituary/3787317 As for me, I've made quite a few gallons over the years, have multiple 5 gal. glass carboys, airlocks, etc. But, I just don't really have the time for much of that nowadays. As well, my back can't handle all that work! I prefer "Eisweins/Icewines", Sweet ports and some good sweet muscadine.
Honestly, I did get to travel all over California, Sonoma area, Healdsburg, but the best IMHO is Temecula, mostly because it's not too commercial, small family wineries, some just a few acres on a hillside and more sweet wines than the Northern growers. Funny story, my wife has never seen me outright drunk, I can hide it well, hehe. But one travel day, we started out from Rancho Cucamonga, or as I liked to tease and say Rancho Cook-a-monkey, hehe. SO we hit Galleano winery first and then headed through Temecula. The fella that preferred me to be his navigator always treated us to ONE HELLUVA TRAVEL day! SO we then proceeded through Temecula, basically from one driveway to the next on our way to San Diego. By 6 pm CA time, which was 9 pm here in West TN, I called my wife, I had lost count of how many flights we had drank, as well as all the wineries we had hit, but it had to be at least ten and I was like a giggling school girl. She still likes to tell folks about that day/phone call, LMAO! I was pretty full of it, FOR SURE!
Now back to the regular show, LOL.
