Comments on: Yeoman wine, harvest festival, more brainwashing, advice — sipped & spit http://www.drvino.com/2011/10/07/virginia-wine-aoc/ wine talk that goes down easy Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Dr. Vino http://www.drvino.com/2011/10/07/virginia-wine-aoc/#comment-354056 Dr. Vino Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:48:05 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=9733#comment-354056 Here’s a bit more from Reuters on the Montmartre wine FYI.

]]> By: Dr. Vino http://www.drvino.com/2011/10/07/virginia-wine-aoc/#comment-353821 Dr. Vino Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:49:31 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=9733#comment-353821 Martinique, Guadalupe and so on are lovely places, I’m sure. Just a little confusing how they fit into a wine harvest festival. Or maybe the wine harvest is just a part of the intercultural harvest festival? I’ll need to run this through Google translate…

Either way, there was a parade for Bacchus today in the streets of Paris. And children witnessed it! When would that happen in, say, Chicago?

]]> By: Damien http://www.drvino.com/2011/10/07/virginia-wine-aoc/#comment-353820 Damien Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:45:06 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=9733#comment-353820 You say “a tribute to France’s overseas holdings (not sure of the wine angle there..)”

Didn’t you tell me you had High School French? My memory of French class on every level was that the syllabus was required to present the “all the places that speak French” lecture at least once to show the glory of the former empire. Don’t get me wrong, I am not throwing stones in the glass house of our own US imperialism, I just thought it was always funny, and am in no way surprised by the oddly placed boasting of France’s overseas holidings.

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