"Larry LaMere" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:47 -0600, "J. Davidson"
> wrote:
>
> >Two questions:
> >Why must one learn to like something that tastes awful? (wine)
> >And why the mystique, when wine is merely another liquid such as pepsi,
tea,
> >coffee, etc. Is it sort of like DeBeers and diamonds?
> >J. Davidson (who got left out of the veneration of wine group.)
> >
> IMHO that's pretty much it, something for snobs to rave about. An aquired
taste means that it tastes
> like shit but you get used to it.
>
> On the other hand I once had a couple bottles of Gooseberry wine from
Germany that I really liked
> and can easily sit and drink a whole bottle of good (or not so good)
sherry and enjoy the flavor.
>
> A girl I once knew bought a bottle of Chateau LaFeet Rothschild (very
expensive) and was raveing
> about the boquet and a lot of other stuff, to me it stank - and tasted
worse than it smelled.
>
>

Chteau LaFeet? I am thinking that may have been the problem. French wines
can be very potent. I am guessing bunions, ingrown toenails, calluses and
trenchfoot aren't to your palette. Try it again filtered through a clean
sock. It may help.

Paul