From: "bb" on 2 May 2005 16:17:56 -0700

wrote:
From: "K4YZ" on Sun,May 1 2005 5:42 am

You continue to make
significant errors on matters of Amateur policy AND practice.

BULL****. YOU do NOT set what is "right" and
what is "wrong."

OPINIONS are expressed in here and everyone's OPINION
is THEIRS, neither "right" nor "wrong." Except you
and a few other retrograde PCTAs HAVE to jump in with
ERROR! ERROR! on every OPINION contrary to yours.

Steve is such a sorry sack of excrement. If he didn't have people on
RRAP to argue with, he would have no reason for living.

Maybe he found his "true calling!" :-)

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Len, I'm enjoying a nice Vidal (fr. hybrid) that I picked on Veteran's

Day 2003. Would you like me to send you a bottle? It's just slightly

off dry. Drop me an e-mail at "

Thank you much but the small "wine cellar" here is full.
We don't do a lot of sipping here so much of what is there
is for dessert purposes. If you had a muscato amabile
(amiable muscat), that's something I'd never turn down!

Ha! I just thought of something funny. An Ohio grown grape wine
being
sent to California. Welp, our ice wines are getting some notice
anyway.

Hmmm...Ohio now competing with Missouri? :-)

When my wife and I drove back to the midwest in 2000,
we noticed lots and lots of little wineries in Missouri
(of all places). In 2001 on a similar trip we bought
lots of wines in Amana, Iowa...the flavored kind, all
very tasty. Made nice gifts..."imported from Amana."

In 1975 there was a private family reunion (just two
Swedish-ancestry families) where the oldest gal cooked
a fancy Greek dinner. Her husband is a scholar on
Grecian things and they and sons lived in Paris at
the time. She had brought some French wine for the
dinner. After dinner I suggested she ought to get
California wine in Paris...because "everyone knows that
imported wines are best!" Chuckles all around on that.

Watch Stebie's reaction on that little story. :-)

Note that he will come unglued again and make an
ISSUE of it. What we don't know is the exact details
of his reply...but - as past is sometimes prologue -
he WILL rant and rave, fuss and fume! QED. :-)

wrote:
From: "bb" on 2 May 2005 16:17:56 -0700

wrote:
From: "K4YZ" on Sun,May 1 2005 5:42 am

You continue to make
significant errors on matters of Amateur policy AND practice.

BULL****. YOU do NOT set what is "right" and
what is "wrong."

OPINIONS are expressed in here and everyone's OPINION
is THEIRS, neither "right" nor "wrong." Except you
and a few other retrograde PCTAs HAVE to jump in with
ERROR! ERROR! on every OPINION contrary to yours.

Steve is such a sorry sack of excrement. If he didn't have people
on
RRAP to argue with, he would have no reason for living.

Maybe he found his "true calling!" :-)

----

Len, I'm enjoying a nice Vidal (fr. hybrid) that I picked on
Veteran's

Day 2003. Would you like me to send you a bottle? It's just
slightly

off dry. Drop me an e-mail at "

Thank you much but the small "wine cellar" here is full.
We don't do a lot of sipping here so much of what is there
is for dessert purposes. If you had a muscato amabile
(amiable muscat), that's something I'd never turn down!

I did make a dessert Orange Muscat (California juice) that won a 3rd in
the local competition. I'll have to check, but I think its all gone.
Very popular with everyone. Last fall I entered 4 white wines in
competition and three won 3rd places, and one was a first.

Ha! I just thought of something funny. An Ohio grown grape wine
being
sent to California. Welp, our ice wines are getting some notice
anyway.

Hmmm...Ohio now competing with Missouri? :-)

Ohio was one of the original big wine states, early 1800's. A guy
named Longsworth was behind it. The grape was "Delaware."

Actually, TJ (Tommy Jefferson) pushed hard to get vineyards established
in America. He kept bringing vines in from France, and they never
figured out why they wouldn't survive (phyloxeria). He wasn't quite
satisfied with native grapes.

When my wife and I drove back to the midwest in 2000,
we noticed lots and lots of little wineries in Missouri
(of all places).

Anywhere the Germans settled. Hermann, MO is kind of the heartland of
the Missouri wine country, and I used to maintain the river gage on the
bridge leading in to/out of town. That was a bad location.

In 2001 on a similar trip we bought
lots of wines in Amana, Iowa...the flavored kind, all
very tasty. Made nice gifts..."imported from Amana."

Ahh, yes, the Amana Colonies. My wife and I stopped just off I80 for a
meal while travelling from Nebraska. The waitresses had German
accents, but were probably 5th generation USA born. Didn't buy any
wine nor home appliances during our stop.

In 1975 there was a private family reunion (just two
Swedish-ancestry families) where the oldest gal cooked
a fancy Greek dinner. Her husband is a scholar on
Grecian things and they and sons lived in Paris at
the time. She had brought some French wine for the
dinner. After dinner I suggested she ought to get
California wine in Paris...because "everyone knows that
imported wines are best!" Chuckles all around on that.

In 1976 that actually happened in a blind tasting in France with French
judges. They said they could easily tell a California wine from
French, then proceeded to rate several California wines higher than the
most prestigious French wines. It changed the world of wine.

Watch Stebie's reaction on that little story. :-)

Steve needs to import a little rationality. Actually, a lot of it.

Note that he will come unglued again and make an
ISSUE of it. What we don't know is the exact details
of his reply...but - as past is sometimes prologue -
he WILL rant and rave, fuss and fume! QED. :-)



To hell with him.