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  • He spoke of wine as no one had before, not with the faux poetry common in the haute monde of wine-talk--"this resonates with compelling nutmeg undertones tinged with the salt of Mendocino sea breeze"--but with "this tastes like old socks" or "this tastes, to me, like burnt rubber."

    Great Regulars: And so Wine Library TV (also known as Rus Bowden 2009

  • He spoke of wine as no one had before, not with the faux poetry common in the haute monde of wine-talk--"this resonates with compelling nutmeg undertones tinged with the salt of Mendocino sea breeze"--but with "this tastes like old socks" or "this tastes, to me, like burnt rubber."

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • How long the inevitable wine-talk lasted on the particular social occasion of which I am now writing is more than I can undertake to say.

    The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins 1856

  • When their friends come over, they grab the Riedl Sommelier glasses and open up a few of these bottles and talk wine-talk.

    The Pour 2009

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