A Serpentine Landscape

But with acid to cut the sweetness and the bitter dill.

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Aquavit!

K.

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So maybe this Pinot Grigio that I have chilled...?

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I have some screw-wine. They say Stelvin creates a better seal. But if it goes bad, how do you refer to it? It's not exactly "corked."

Hey, did you know that Absinthe can now legally be imported? Surdyk's will be selling it starting Thursday.

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I'd go German, but if that's wot you got, drink it. After the first bottle, I never notice much anyway... ;-)

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Screw-top wine can't be corked, because "corked" refers to wine that is contaminated with TCA (2,4,6-Trichloroanisole) -- and that comes from the cork.

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Okay, it's possible that wine can get infected with TCA from the barrel,but that's much more rare. But since TCA-infected wine, even if infected from the barrel, is called "corked" I don't think there's a problem for screw-top wine.

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An Alsatian Riesling.

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The whole banning of Absinthe was undone long ago in a government reorg, but lost in the bureaucracy.

"While the United States may be in the throes of an absinthe renaissance, distillers suspect that new bottles will arrive slowly. Absinthe was banned in America in 1912 because of health concerns fanned by some of the same anti-alcohol forces who would later push through Prohibition. Due to a reorganization of the government’s food-safety bureaucracy, the ban was effectively lifted before World War II, although it took decades before anybody realized it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/dining/05absi.html?pagewanted=print

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Sadly, I don't have any Riesling. But now you've got me craving it; I'll have to go get some tomorrow.

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buttonlass.livejournal.com

Riesling! But I think one with more minerality.:)

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buttonlass.livejournal.com

Hooray! I guessed what Bruce guessed. I feel so smrt! Though perhaps I should have read the comments first.:)

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buttonlass.livejournal.com

They do like their fads. It's cute. Are we having some soon?

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sarendipatree.livejournal.com

Dill? White. California.

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don-rodent.livejournal.com

Fortified.

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vacivus.livejournal.com

absinth and dill sounds like a very bad idea, as for absinth: customs doesnt have a problem with it, i have some serpis absinth sitting 1 foot from me

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guppiecat

Yep. Did you know that absinthe can also be imported in lollipop form?

I'm not sure I'd want to actually eat one, but I certainly appreciate the ingenuity.

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If you want some I'll bring it to Boxing Day. I've never tried the stuff and I'm curious.

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von-krag.livejournal.com

I'd go w/a nice ale or lager but then I'm not much of a drinker anymore.

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I've had it. Do you have the spoon? We must have the spoon to do it right.

K. [I've a friend who distills his own]

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Not yet, but they also carry those at Surdyk's.

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It very well may have been legal all this time, but that didn't stop U.S. Customs from confiscating all of it from my fellow travelers a couple of years ago when I was coming back from the British Isles.

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Customs always moves in its own mysterious ways. They should have appealed the decision -- I've heard it can have funny results because they (at least ustta not) don't track what they confiscate.

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Fascinating.

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Bring some for Christmas. Because nothing says "Happy Holidays" like Absinthe.

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Okay, then. I'm not sure I want one, either.

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