The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle...
Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead.
(Wikipedia)
All well, thanks, although the cats are in disgrace for their usual failure to warn us. The shock was all P-waves, and went on for some time, so I figured that the epicentre was some distance away. That is, someone else probably had it far worse. So we went back to sleep
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I hope you and your family are safe, Smut.
All well, thanks, although the cats are in disgrace for their usual failure to warn us. The shock was all P-waves, and went on for some time, so I figured that the epicentre was some distance away. That is, someone else probably had it far worse. So we went back to sleep
Excellent! You will one day mock Terry Fox again.
Not to mention mocking people who live on stable tectonic plates where nothing geologically interesting ever happens.
Well, things got pretty exciting here at the end of the Permian, but now it's all good.
Mocking the plates is good, S.C.
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"nemluvim nemecky" really came into vogue about nine years after this was published.
PS: commiserations from the geologically boring bit of your home plate.
"nemluvim nemecky" really came into vogue about nine years after this was published.
Then a few more years and it was time for "Nemluvim rusky".
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