Vodka is in danger

Originally posted by DukeC The best Vodka in the world is made in Newfoundland with water from icebergs.     (runs rapidly from the thread, closely followed by a mob of enraged Europeans)

I've only drunk Stoly, which I found tasteless, so I don't really know much about Vodka. Schnapps is more to my taste, peach, peppermint, or even rootbeer. 

Well, i also prefer red Italian wines more than french. From the French my favourite is Anjou.

Edited by Mosquito - 30-Oct-2006 at 17:54

I have never tried Chilean wine, but I know the country is famous for that product. I have had some very good recommendations about Chilean wine, must try some someday, perhaps on a vacation there......

Ice wine! I heard about that. Never drunk it though, very expensive...

Originally posted by Constantine XI I have never tried Chilean wine, but I know the country is famous for that product. I have had some very good recommendations about Chilean wine, must try some someday, perhaps on a vacation there......

In Argentina and Chile the climate is not really good for making wine. Their wine is simply too dry.

Personally I've always wondered why Poles drink that fermented potato stuff, when Polish Absinth is far better quality.

Edited by Paul - 31-Oct-2006 at 20:56

Originally posted by pinguin   What!!!!?????   Chile weather is too dry? Where do you get that! Goodness.

Edited by Mosquito - 01-Nov-2006 at 03:41

Paul's right French wines are overpriced abroad.

Nonetheless if you pick 100 French wines and 100 wines from whatever other places supposed to be the new fashionable vineyard, you'll have to admit that

1) you have more chances to find real crap in Chile

2) you have more chances to find something excellent in France.

Pircetag is one thing, connaisseurs' opinion another. And among the 100 most expensive wines for 2006 (a good year) 96 are European and 72 are French. One Norwigean (!). The US and Chile have two each and Australia's not even there. (source Le Monde)

What the new vineyard are producing are products people will like the first time they try it. So more sugar, more alchool, easy opening (aaaargh!), and additive fruity savours. God help us! Red wine is an aquired taste, if you like it the first time that means it is alchoolized grape juice. Nothing else. The same for cheese by the way.

The new countries are mass producing and marketing a product that by definition can't be one or the other. A quality vineyard is only a few hundred meters long, how can you mass produce on that. With wine we are ending up at the same point as with other agricultural products: the tomatoes, carots, cheese or meat you buy at Wall Mart, Tesco or Carrefour are safe and easy to eat but they are tasteless. The worst is what has happen with butter, nowadays butter basically has no taste; when you go to a farm and eat their butter you don't like it because it taste like milk...

Wine have resisted longer beacuse it is more expensive and difficult to produce, but here it is: within two years nobody will like real wine because we will lose the habit to drink it and we will prefer the tasteless sugary chile wine.



Penguin I'm sure you have never even drink a good C�te de Nuit or a Entre-deux-mers. It is a great thing for Chile to be able to develop its agriculture but unfortunatly it is not a good thing for wine lovers.