Just for Fun No C&C will be given: They like me! They really like me! a ala Sally Field

[Rachel Foster]

A local wine shop has asked to hang and offer for sale some of my images. Wonder if anyone will buy them? Ha!

I'm still working on a shot of white wine.

 

[Asher Kelman]

This Rachel, is a great step for you and I'm happy for you. I hope you do much more.
How are these lit?

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

Thanks, Asher! The first and 3rd were lighted with sunlight through a window (using a black tri-fold poster board for back, and the middle was lighted with a couple of flashlights.

 

[Ron Morse]

Congratulations Rachel. I hope you sell a lot of them.

 

[nicolas claris]

Bonsoir Rachel

congrats!

BTW:

Wine should be poored more gently… and to the side of the glass…

 

[Rachel Foster]

Ha! That made me laugh.

 

[Bill Miller]

Respect for French

Ha! That made me laugh.

Rachel, The French are the experts in wine pouring? Pleassssssse show Nicolas some respect.

 

[Michael Fontana]

Rachel, The French are the experts in wine pouring? Pleassssssse show Nicolas some respect.

And even more when living in Bordeaux!!!!! ;-)

It's true, here too, we don't pour wine in that way, either.
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Rachel - Congrats

 

[Rachel Foster]

Thanks, all!

Actually that was a ghastly something or other I bought for $5. I only drink white so it was chosen for price and color. (Does that help? HA!)

 

[fahim mohammed]

I am glad for you Rachel. Well done.

As for wine...we let the grapes ferment in our stomachs. The longer it stays there, I guess the more
' vintage ' it would be. Maybe not.

 

[nicolas claris]

Thanks, all!

Actually that was a ghastly something or other I bought for $5. I only drink white so it was chosen for price and color. (Does that help? HA!)

C'mon Rachel!
Wine is as serious as photography! ¿<{:-D)

BTW We just had a great Graves white…

 

[Rachel Foster]

I agree tis serious!

Where I live it's hard to get a decent fume blanc. I prefer a nice white as dry as the Sahara. Any reasonably priced wines that you could recommend?

Fahim, forgive me, but if the grapes ferment in your stomach, might you want to call the gastroenterologist? Of course, Asher would have a more learned opinion on that than me... Ha!

 

[nicolas claris]

I prefer a nice white as dry as the Sahara. Any reasonably priced wines that you could recommend?

Bonjour Rachel,

I have no clue of what wines one can find (at what price) in your store shelves…
The best is to buy a plane ticket for you and your best friend and make a tour of France clockwise starting from Alsace (Beautifull fruitee whites!), Burgundy, then a little tour to Swizerland (care your bank account, no more secret!) you'll love a glass of Fendant at the bistro du coin, then back to France with Côtes du Rhône, Languedoc, Agenais, Bordeaux (coucou!) then les Vins de Loire looking at the chateaux…
May I suggest that your best friend doens't drink alcohol and have a driving license?

Sounds like a good trip, almost the tour de France! (needs at least 4 days per stop)

 

[Michael Fontana]

That makes sense, Nicolas

I suggest starting the tour within the next month, as the fresh, native white aspargus will be out soon in the Alsace aerea; yummie and fits very well with that white - which otherwise is to fruity - for my taste. Like the dry ones better.

We actally jump over the border and have this aspargus as a yearly ritual.

For Nicolas

 

[Rachel Foster]

Ah, dreams. Yup, that's a nice one.

 

[StuartRae]

I bypass the glass and drink straight from the bottle. Is that frowned upon in sophisticated circles?

Regards,

Stuart

 

[nicolas claris]

That makes sense, Nicolas

I suggest starting the tour within the next month, as the fresh, native white aspargus will be out soon in the Alsace aerea; yummie and fits very well with that white - which otherwise is to fruity - for my taste. Like the dry ones better.

We actally jump over the border and have this aspargus as a yearly ritual.

For Nicolas

Yep! Village-Neuf seems a nice place to go! They seem really less serious than the Bordelaise version

Os for the fruity/dry white, I like them both, depends of what you eat with! (fruity ain't sweet)

 

[nicolas claris]

I bypass the glass and drink straight from the bottle. Is that frowned upon in sophisticated circles?

Regards,

Stuart

LoL with an old wine you'll eat by the same time!

 

[StuartRae]

Hi Nicolas,

I'm pleased you're not too shocked! The habit stems from student parties in the '60s. (We calculated that the most alcohol for your money was achieved from a particularly nasty Portuguese wine called Justina.) You had to keep hold of the bottle otherwise it soon disappeared. I adopted the tactic of drinking the bottle on the way to the party and then trying to steal someone else's once I got there.

Rachel, sorry for stealing your post. Congratulations! You've come a long way since your struggle with the river.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[nicolas claris]

He! Stuart!
Why should I be shocked?!? Do I look/seem so snob? LoL!

Drinking a 1 Euro bottle of wine directly from the bottle is not a prob, but a 100 Euro is! because you would destroy the wine while shaking and by the way get to be fed by the "lie" (lee) which is really no good, believe me ;-). This the reason why an old wine must be poured gently… so the lee stays in the bottle and don't get into the glass or your mouth depending of how you intend to drink…

 

[Rachel Foster]

Stuart, I enjoyed your addition to the thread. And you remember the river! Thanks for the kind words.

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Rachel

Well done - I hope you sell some, but being asked is great.

As to the wine...*

When I am fortunate enough to be drinking fine old Bordeaux, Burgundy or Chateau Neuf... then I will decant the wine and pour so very carefully. With these fragile old wines too much air can be as destructive as too little, but with some young things (probably commoners from the New World) a bit of a splash can only help...

Actually, I have a half bottle of '65 Chateau Lafite Rothschild waiting for an opportune reason to be shared. A friend gave it to me on my 40th birthday in 2005, but we drank my only bottle of Grange (not a young pretender!).

Mike


*Please note that although there is some truth in the remainder of this post there is also a healthy degree of humour