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Default What wine goes with licorice?

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:59:17 -0700, Christine Dabney
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>On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:48:06 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
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>>Sounds good, Christine! I like rosé wines.

>
>But only dry roses...non of that White Zinfandel stuff....
>
>However, dry roses seem to belong to summer, in my mind. But things
>like that also go with a good red wine... Preferably one from the
>south of France...
>
>And no, I don't *think* I am a wine snob,


She doesn't *think* she is, operative word *think*. She wouldn't let
one teensey drop of my lowly screw cap vermouth near her stuffed
squash blossoms. :-0

koko

>but I do love a really good
>wine. Most of the ones these days are way too fruity for me, which is
>why I like a lot of the ones made in France, where they know to tone
>it down a bit. I don't like drinking fruit juice ...LOL.
>
>I tend to like really dry wines, that marry well with food. I have
>been lucky to live in the San Francisco bay area, where there is a
>profound appreciation of good wine, and where it is not frowned upon
>to have a glass of wine with lunch.... And where there are countless
>wine events..... I learned a lot there...
>
>Christine

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