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chained_bear commented on the word vernache
"To a far greater extent than with solid foods, their (spices) use was dictated by a need to preserve against corruption, or at least cover its taste. ... Taken neat, medieval wine could be a harrowing experience, and the problem of foul wine was sufficiently common to inspire all kinds of complaints, as with the man-strangling 'hard, green and faithless' wines of the poet Guiot de Vaucresson. ... Geffroi de Waterford said of the variety known as vernache that it 'tickles without hurting'--faint praise indeed."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 114
December 2, 2016