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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2020 19:24:55 GMT
I'm having a jumbo glass of heatwave pastis loaded with ice cubes and lots of water. I hear it also wards off the covid virus. (Don't tell the POTUS.)
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Post by whatagain on Aug 10, 2020 21:09:01 GMT
Ah Pastis. Will have some on saturday. Well Ricard actually, as this is my neighbour'S fave. Mine is Henry Barbouin (or close - H B).
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Post by lagatta on Aug 10, 2020 21:13:14 GMT
Kerouac, where on earth (or in Paris) did you buy 3l of generic but ok rosé for 7euros?
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Post by lagatta on Aug 10, 2020 21:14:29 GMT
Kerouac, where on earth (or in Paris) did you buy 3l of generic but ok rosé for 7euros?
Bixa, blood?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2020 1:50:08 GMT
| | | | | | ice water
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Post by lagatta on Aug 11, 2020 2:44:49 GMT
In your veins? You'd be dead, and you seem fully alive. I'm drinking sparkly water.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2020 3:41:28 GMT
I'm drinking plain cold water right now.
You never heard the expression "ice water in his/her veins"?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2020 10:16:52 GMT
Kerouac, where on earth (or in Paris) did you buy 3l of generic but ok rosé for 7euros? At my local E. Leclerc supermarket.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 14, 2020 13:14:00 GMT
I guess that the one in the 19th is the closest to you?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2020 14:05:39 GMT
Yes, I go to the one at Rosa Parks. The bus is direct.
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Post by bjd on Aug 14, 2020 14:25:53 GMT
At lunchtime I opened a bottle of Minervois La Livinière, made by a neighbour of a friend of mine. It's good but now it's a bit warm for red wine. Otherwise, I've been drinking tap water.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 14, 2020 16:29:39 GMT
I wish you would all feel sorry for me…..I'm down to a last glass of box red wine. We are going to be addressed by the President tomorrow - if he hasn't got news that he is unbanning liquor sales I'll be back on the old alcohol free beer. Just because there is a nation that cannot drink for the enjoyment but always has to get blotto and knock the shit out of their wives and kids, we who only imbibe with a meal or just before…have to suffer with the rif-raf. Bloody hell.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 14, 2020 17:05:35 GMT
Oh, I feel sorry for you but at the same time, I would be fascinated to see the reaction if this sort of decision were ever taken in France. Depending on the region, only from 7.1% to 12.6% of the French drink alcohol every day, so the majority of people would not be frantic immediately, but it probably wouldn't take long for the desire to become extreme.
I looked up the figures for South Africa and was surprised to see that it is #5 in the world for alcohol consumption after 1. Tunisia (WTF???) 2. Cook Islands 3. Eswatini and 4. Namibia. As for drinking every day, I didn't see those figures, but I saw that white men are the biggest drinkers (69.8%) and Indian/Asian women drink the least (15.2%).
Then again, a different study showed South Africa in only the 30th place with Belrus as #1 (much easier to believe than Tunisia!).
Since everybody lies about how much alcohol they drink, it must be super difficult to obtain authentic statistics.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2020 22:34:37 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Aug 17, 2020 0:45:19 GMT
Well, Tunisia is a majority Muslim country, but also a sort of democracy, and there are many secular Tunisians. However, the statistic did seem rather overstated.
And while alcohol consumtion in France has diminished, there is no way I believe those figures.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2020 2:09:54 GMT
I recently finished my supper, which was a mango/banana smoothie.
It wasn't cloying -- the mango was super sour.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 17, 2020 11:25:06 GMT
The very last glass of red from the box BUT, tomorrow we celebrate the lifting of the ban on alcohol sales. Bottle shops open at 9am and will close at 5pm, not the usual 8 pm. That will prevent sales to people who knock off work at 5pm . They will have to get their tipple during the lunch hour...
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Post by tod2 on Aug 27, 2020 16:28:59 GMT
You guessed it - I visited the bottle shop with a fist full of dollars! I don't thingkI have ever bought so much liquor in one hit. With the threat of another alcohol ban looming we are now well and truly stocked up for the next 6 months. I wish I could say it is all quality bottles that I love - especially the Rieslings, but no, I have had to resort to perfectly quaffable wine but it does not give you those goosebumps a real stonking wine exudes.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 2, 2020 19:02:43 GMT
Bulgarian Merlot just £4.50 a bottle and perfectly acceptable.
Whatagain would be horrified.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 3, 2020 9:43:07 GMT
I found a lovely fruity dry rose sparkling wine from Robertsons Winery. Perfect for summer cocktail hour.
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Post by bjd on Sept 3, 2020 11:22:29 GMT
The autumn wine sales are starting here. I have lots of southern wine at home but yesterday I bought two bottles of white Burgundy (chablis and viré-clessé) which I have put away for a while.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 3, 2020 12:09:23 GMT
I was going to buy some wine at the supermarket but the stock people were so hard at work putting things on the shelves that I considered it inacessible with all of the cartons and carts and decided to go without.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 3, 2020 13:29:43 GMT
Tod, since when is it summer in ZA in early September? Oddly, I've never seen any Robertson rosés here - lots of white and red. I suppose your coming spring will be pretty mild though.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 3, 2020 13:45:00 GMT
"Meteorological" summer (and other seasons) begins on the 1st of the relevant month rather than the equinox date. I only learned that recently.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 3, 2020 16:26:35 GMT
Me too. Only because they seen to emphasise that on the weather report on Sky News.
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Post by bjd on Sept 3, 2020 16:57:02 GMT
Not just on Sky News -- the French weather office also does so.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 4, 2020 9:58:17 GMT
Had a Saint Espephe 94 yesterday. Nice label but not so nice wine. My daughter said she preffered a sweet wine so i put a Monbazillac 95 in the fridge for tonight.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 4, 2020 11:15:33 GMT
Whatagain I see that your Saint Espephe 1994 is made up of 60% Cabernet Sauv., 37% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc. There seems to be a huge jump in price from '94 - 16euros to '97 at 31 euros. Your daughter should really like the Monbazillac (Chateau Belingard 1995) as being a desert wine is described as Lush and balanced . Here it would set me back R500 ….25euros.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 4, 2020 21:19:57 GMT
The Monbazillac was extremely good. Then we had a Rioja. Quite good too.
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Post by bjd on Sept 5, 2020 6:16:19 GMT
The monbazillac was the apéro?
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