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#118761 01/04/04 05:03 PM
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I recognized the name of these grapes, but can't remember having eaten any. Interesting discussion at this URL:
http://www.ncwine.org/press3.htm


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Just doesn't have that romantic ring to it for wine making does it?


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Dear Zed: I seen ship scuppers I would not want to drink
a nog of. Particulary when bad weather has cause epidemic
seasickness.


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Dr.bill
glad I ate before reading that


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I actually found a place that has Scuppernong wine for sale, believe it or not! http://www.waldensian.com/price.htm Some sources describe the taste as "musky", which makes me wonder. I don't know if that wonder is worth $28, but.


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Dear Fiberbabe: Let's be fair. Four bottles for $28. I feel good, thinking of all the money I have saved not buying wine. That company needs a winesnob consultant to police up
the adjectives used in that ad. Musky reminds me of "muskrat". Not the right spin. Which reminds me of group game "Spin the bottle". I could never get it to point where
I wanted it to.


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More interesting to me, a self-professed oenophile, is the name of the company: Waldensian. A name associated with a pre-Reformation quasi-protestant heresy / sect / religion founded by Peter Waldo of Lyons in the 12th century. Much persecuted by the Roman Church and championed (in theory) by the Protestants.


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Dear jheem: I wonder if that is where Ralph Waldo Emerson
got his middle name.


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Musky reminds me of "muskrat".

I don't think 'musky' is normally used as a complimentary term regarding wines. Muscadine is a variety of grape.


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Dear Faldage: look at last line of the etymology.
Musk= aroma of athletic supporter?
musk

PRONUNCIATION: msk
NOUN: 1a. A greasy secretion with a powerful odor, produced in a glandular sac beneath the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes. b. A similar secretion produced by certain other animals, such as the otter or civet. c. A synthetic chemical resembling natural musk in odor or use. 2a. The odor of musk. b. An odor similar to musk. 3. A musk deer.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Greek moskhos, from Persian muk, probably from Sanskrit muka, testicle. See ms- in Appendix I.



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