Wednesday 15 October 2008

Educating Trywalker

Our young friend knows a lot of stuff about a lot of things. However, I am going to help fill in some of the small gaps...
This is where white wine comes from

17 comments:

Lazy said...

Thought it came from a box.

Somnambulist said...

You're right it does come in a box. But you need to open the box to get to the bottles, and the wine in the bottles comes from Puligny-Montrachet. If you are lucky.

I once tried shipping the whole of Puligny-Montrachet back home, but found that it didn't fit in the back garden, so I had to send it back.

Anonymous said...

In the very early 70s Puligny Montrachet was sold exceedingly cheaply across the road in Unwins. Loved the taste so much it became our 'plonk'. No-one around knew that it was called Puligny Mont-rachet. We all thought it was Puligny Monntrashay!

Somnambulist said...

I can imagine the Monntrashay Partays were a riot.. I wonder if 70steen was there?!

Lazy said...

I opened the box. It said the bag was filled at the Xtreme Yumm chemical plant, Hoboken, New Jersey, and it had nearly 10% real wine flavouring.

Somnambulist said...

@lazy - Ahh now I am with you and see your problem. The word "wine" should not appear in the same sentence, or really in the same vicinity, as "made in America."

Anonymous said...

I thought it came from Safeways. Or Australia, whichever is closer.

Somnambulist said...

@UDH heathen - It can come VIA Safeways. It CANNOT come from Australia. Please do not try to deliberately confuse our young graduand.

Onur Sert said...

I am really flattered with the post;) I think we should start from scratch and you have to teach me how to nurse a out-of-money positions during a 5% sell off in the market.. re-wine; ;) I am open to learn in quick way but please lets keep the first 20 trials of the learning procees costing less than 10 eur per unit :)

Somnambulist said...

@trywalker - the more you know about wine, the less you will care about positions, in or out of the money :-)

It's a bit of a struggle to get Puligny-Montrachet at under EUR 10 per bottle, however, I am sure if you ask the chief dealer nicely he will subsidise you out of the HR training budget.

70steen said...

Did some one call my name???

was I there?? It must have been one helluva a riotious partay.... I can't remember!! ;-)

Somnambulist said...

@70s - Always the sign of a good partay.. if you don't know whether or not you attended ;-)

70steen said...

Indeed :-D

Anonymous said...

The post was lost on me, I'm a brown-bagger.

Andrew Goulding

Somnambulist said...

@your lordship - what on earth is a "brown-bagger"... the mind boggles!!

Anonymous said...

Brown-bagging is drinking your booze from the bottle so quickly after purchase that it's still in the paper bag.

Perhaps it has different names in other parts of the world.

Andrew Goulding

P.S. it's not to be confused with "double brownbagger"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=double%20brownbagger

Somnambulist said...

@laog - hahahahahha thank you for the double morning chuckle :-)))