“5 Dry Portuguese Wines That Will Knock Your Socks Off”

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:17 Fri 24 Oct 2014

Wine Folly, in an article entitled [url=http://winefolly.com/tutorial/5-dry-portuguese-wines/]5 Dry Portuguese Wines That Will Knock Your Socks Off[/url], wrote:1. Douro Reds

A Red Wine That Makes Cabernet Look Like a Big Wimp

The rest of the article is similarly full of praise.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:40 Fri 24 Oct 2014

In the same article, Wine Folly wrote:FACT: Although Portugal is smaller than the state of Indiana, it’s home to hundreds of native wine grapes.

This is clearly a nonsensical statement. Is the size of Indiana in any connected to the number of grape varieties that might reasonably be expected to grow somewhere? Or is Indiana a universal unit of measurement for Americans, like football pitches or Wales for us?

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 21:01 Fri 24 Oct 2014

The only residents of USA that I know to use their State as a unit of measure are Texans, usually in a "mine is bigger than yours" kind of way. Using Indiana as another arbitrary unit is indeed curious.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:38 Fri 24 Oct 2014

I like Bill Callahan's song, made slightly more famous by Gil Scott Heron, I'm New Here:

She said I had an ego the size of Texas,
I said, I'm new here and I can't remember,
Is that big, or small?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:04 Fri 24 Oct 2014

My socks remain in place.

DaveRL · Post by **DaveRL** » 12:13 Sat 25 Oct 2014

Just your socks?

CaliforniaBrad · Post by **CaliforniaBrad** » 18:06 Sat 25 Oct 2014

I like my socks to remain where they are while drinking wine. I find it quite distracting otherwise.

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Andy Velebil · Post by **Andy Velebil** » 15:23 Sun 26 Oct 2014

djewesbury wrote:
In the same article, Wine Folly wrote:FACT: Although Portugal is smaller than the state of Indiana, it’s home to hundreds of native wine grapes.
This is clearly a nonsensical statement. Is the size of Indiana in any connected to the number of grape varieties that might reasonably be expected to grow somewhere? Or is Indiana a universal unit of measurement for Americans, like football pitches or Wales for us?

I know of no one who refers to Indiana for anything. Very nonsensical statement.

RAYC · Post by **RAYC** » 19:39 Mon 27 Oct 2014

Indiana as a comparator for the size of Portugal seems to be quite common on the net (being very slightly bigger than it). Also Maine (which is slightly smaller). A bit like the comparisons between the size of France and Texas

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/24/markets ... 2010032412

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/econ ... tugal.html

http://www.infoplease.com/country/portugal.html

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