Tag: wine
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My partner and her husband (my metamour) have a tradition that every 5th wedding anniversary they get the "next size up" of champagne bottle.
This meant that on yesterday, when we celebrated their 15th, we needed to get through a Methuselah: a massive 6 litre bottle equivalent to nine standard bottles of champagne (rightmost in the attached picture).
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A half bottle, standard bottle, magnum, Jeroboam, and Methuselah of Bollinger champagne lined up on a window ledge, with a banana for scale.
It's times like these you're glad of friends you can call on to help you drink such a monster!
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TFW a recipe calls for a glass of wine but you can't get the cork back in the bottle so you just have to drink the rest of it.
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Dan, in a kitchen with some kind of tomato sauce on a hob behind him, holds a glass of red wine and shrugs at the camera.
Ah well, what's a chef to do? 🤷🍷
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PromisQity
Dan discovers a vinyard whose name makes it sound like it was something he came up with.
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Paul And Claire Are Almost As Guillable As Bryn
[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11 July 2004; it was finally (partially) recovered on 12 October 2018]
Unable to find our corkscrew and wishing to open a bottle of wine, Paul and Claire had tried all kinds of tricks to dig out - or at least push right in - the … -
Claire’s Back
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Last night was fun. After spending most of a day hacking into the BBC's weather centre (I wanted a weather forecast XML stream, but couldn't find a free one, so with Kit's help I stole one instead), he, Claire (recently returned) and I went down to the beach after midnight with a bottle of Caern …