You people are making me thirsty for Chambord... Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Providing a fair trial and sentencing Date: 1/12/2007 8:41:32 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html