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  • Re: Birthday weekend

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Bob Worm on Sat Dec 13 07:50:01 2025
    Bob Worm wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    A couple of years ago we went on holiday with my parents and my
    brother's family - my parents are odd, while my brother and I rarely
    see eye to eye on anything. By early evening each day my brain would be cooked so the wife and I would go for a quiet glass of wine down at the far end of the garden.

    During the lockdown in 2020, two of my neighbors started having evening
    wine on their respective porches, suitably distanced. I stopped with my
    dog (having a dog to walk during the lockdown was a godsend...) and
    chatted with them on my way. After a while, they'd put a glass of wine
    on the mailboxes between them and I'd enjoy a glass with them.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Dec 14 23:46:08 2025
    My mother's upbringing of "clean your plate!" apparently extended to
    "finish your wine!" in my mind. I learned some time ago that it's OK to
    pour the remainder out after a taste -- also, after 3 or 4 full tastes,
    my palate is gone and they all taste the same.

    Yeah, that makes sense.

    For me, it would be nice if I had an easier time getting the quantity that I want.

    But I also know that, if one is trying to age a bottle of wine, it's not going to be reasonable to do that in a small bottle.

    So tastings work pretty well for me, especially if there are other people who actively want to drink more (as has generally been the case for me with tastings. Not that I've done one in a while.).

    But most of the time you can say, "please make my pour very small".

    Really, the actual problem is that, if I buy a regular bottle of wine, I need to make lots of friends if I want to drink a reasonable portion of the bottle.

    Which limits how much I open bottles.

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