[lit-ideas] Re: Providing a fair trial and sentencing
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:37:56 -0500 (EST)
Wine is something of a hobby in our house. My husband reads up on and buys
just about every variety of wine. Shiraz, Gertztramminer, you name it. I've
learned that my taste in wine is like my taste in music, very narrow, Baroque
and Mozart (or reasonable facsimiles thereof), and in wine I like only the
sweeter Rieslings. I don't like red (broad category, I know) and port and
brandy are undrinkable in my opinion. (They're fortified wines I've learned;
kept better at one time, something like that). Everything I've read says wine
needn't be expensive to be good, but then I only read cheap magazines.
It's like a Jaguar or some other expensive car. What makes a car "worth"
$100,000+ other than the label? Leather seats? I think Volkswagen makes the
Porsche engine anyway. Don't know who makes the Jaguar engine. Probably GM.
I know that companies make, for example, the same fragrance and will sell it
to, say Revlon for one their upscale lines, who will charge X for it, and sell
the same identical fragrance to Avon, who will put it in a different bottle and
sell it for a fraction of X. It's probably the same way with cars, and
probably most everything else. I used to like the slogan of that clothing
company, "An educated consumer is our best customer". I always thought that
was an inside joke, since the last thing companies want is an educated consumer.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 12, 2007 9:40 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Providing a fair trial and sentencing
>
>US:
>>...port, it's always left. Me...I'm having a nice Merlot...I know...so
>>yesterday....
>
>Me, I'm having a Rosemont Shiraz Grenache. Cheap, but won't cause
>blindness. Really expensive port, I've found is exquisite. Sweet but never
>cloying, and the better ones even hint at a brandy taste. How would I know?
>My dear, dear dead father-in-law. Conservatives are good for something.
>But alas, I've not tasted really good port for over twenty years now.
>
>My son sells wine in San Francisco, not to restaurants or bars but to
>private individuals. They sell by the case, bottles costing between $50 and
>$200. There are enough people in SF with enough disposable income to
>regularly buy cases of wine for $500 to $2400 -- I can't even imagine. But
>the point is that last Xmas son Adam brought a bottle of $80 red wine home
>with him. I don't remember what it was, I don't want to know. I just know
>that it was the best red wine I've ever had. If you don't already know,
>trust me, there's quite a difference between rotgut and fine wine and it
>ain't just the price.
>
>
>Mike Geary
>Memphis
>
>
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