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)
I for one am delighted to see this fine old Glasweegee word, long in desuetude except among hardcore Scrabble habitués, making a comeback by way of oncology papermills.
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Or, in it's original Gorballs accent: "Aye Jimmeh! Git yairrr fooken haid ow'o mai oxter, ya fooking wee tayrag!"
See, that just kinda pisses me off.
I spend a few good hours randomly dividing mice (ok, and a rabbit and two dogs) and all of a sudden the cops are at my door.
They were acting like I randomly divided some of their fellow officers or sumpin...
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