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)
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Friday, May 25, 2012
A word to the Ys
Sesame Street used to be really quite weird when it started in the Renaissance.
Are birdies and bees still required for cross-pollination?
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It's Yentl!
ReplyDeleteYou mean this post isn't about a sunken city off the coast of Brittany?
ReplyDeleteSha'n't... be... back!!!
Doods got a surfeit of heads and and excessive and diverse junk, but he's hurtin' for fingers.
ReplyDeleteKind of a ripoff in his case - all that junk and a severe digit shortfall.
Like that dood on the Twilight Zone who finally was free to read all the time after the holocaust and that's when he broke his glasses.
It's like the dood has ten thousand spoons, when all he needs is a knife. Positively ironic....
Hey, waitaminute.
ReplyDeleteJust noticed. The Pope's underpants are around his ankles. What's up with that?
Ahh, the Catholic clergy.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Apparently that is Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, which is why he is wearing a fish-head.
ReplyDeleteOh go fuck yourself.
ReplyDeleteIt might get all bendy and broken, fish.
ReplyDeleteSo Y might have to seek other Y, for fun, and commitments.
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Popeman is confused; Should he molest or scold?
ReplyDeleteOh Norah, wake up. He just likes boys.
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