Wines without Comets

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

> In my view the quality in wine does not depend on the climate but on
> the excellence of the winemaker. I am sure a check of wine auction
> catalogues would confirm the highest prices are on the French wines.
> 

Bertil, do you really believe that most expensive goods are always
the best?  On wine market that's patently false.  Often you pay for
the legend, not for the wine.  Ask any good connoisseur.  The French
have outstanding wines, and their champagnes cannot be beaten, but on
still red wine there's much our better winemakers can (and did) teach
them.  And the person who is writing this message is a lover of
Sauternes and Montbasillac (hope the spelling of the latter isn't
wrong).

In case you still have doubts, go to the nearest wine shop and ask for
as bottle of Amarone Masi.  In case they have it, prepare a good meat
dish (I cannot tell you which one because I'm no expert of Swedish 
cuisine), uncork the bottle and decant the wine at least 2 hours before
dinner, then fasten your seat belt and enjoy the product.

And the climate is very very very important.  Just tell me the name of
a famous Norwegian wine, if any...

Umberto Rossi

"A commission is appointed 
To confer with a Volscian commission 
About perpetual peace"--and nobody told me!