{"id":3178,"date":"2010-03-18T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2010-03-18T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:10:26","slug":"you-cant-say-that-except-in-a-wine-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/you-cant-say-that-except-in-a-wine-column\/","title":{"rendered":"You can’t say that . . . except in a wine column"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pinkus<\/a> collects a few choice things which can only be said on a wine tour, or in a wine column:<\/p>\n

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Top Ten Things That Sound Dirty In Winespeak, But Aren’t<\/strong>
\nCourtesy of fellow wine writer Dean Tudor (www.deantudor.com<\/a>):
\n1. “Spit or swallow?”
\n2. “Stick your nose all the way in”
\n3. “She\u2019s needs to open up a bit”
\n4. “I’ve had a ’69 with my sister”
\n5. “My God! Check out the legs on that Blue Nun!”
\n6. “I keep Sherry on the rack in my cellar”
\n7. “I find the Italians flacid and the French hard”
\n8. “There are too many whites in this room”
\n9. “You have to pull it out slowly, otherwise it\u2019ll shoot all over the place!”
\n10. “Wow that really swelled up, can you stick it back in?”<\/p>\n

Here are two more, just to make it an even dozen:<\/strong>
\n11. “Me and the guys did a 10 year old Tawny, it was sweet”
\n12. “I’m sorry Madame but your Pouilly-Fuisse is awfully dry”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Pinkus collects a few choice things which can only be said on a wine tour, or in a wine column: Top Ten Things That Sound Dirty In Winespeak, But Aren’t Courtesy of fellow wine writer Dean Tudor (www.deantudor.com): 1. “Spit or swallow?” 2. “Stick your nose all the way in” 3. “She\u2019s needs to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,131],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-wine","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}