Having just come from a thread on Champagne, it occurred to me that we do not have a correct pronunciations thread. The offending Champagne was Veuve Clicquot, pronounced Verve-Click-What. Port is just as difficult causing some real hassles:
Guimaraens - Gummy-Reigns
Vargellas - rhymes with garglers
Nacional - Nacky O'Null (Irish Port)
Fonseca - Fonzie Car (Happy Days)
Cockburns - cock burns (obviously and painfully)
Dow - rhymes with tow
Quinta - Quinn Tar
Noval - mis-spelling of Novel, same pronunciation
Warre - Worra, as in worra mess
Please put any others in here as necessary.
Any contradictions will be dealt with in the appropriate manner - with ridicule.
Correct Pronunciations
- KillerB
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Correct Pronunciations
Port is basically a red drink
Re: Correct Pronunciations
Some more...
Douro - Dow-roe (meaning "eggs of a Dow fish")
Hutcheson - Ru-bb-ish (ancient Portuguese derivation of pig-swill)
Quarles Harris - Charlie Harris
Messias - Messy ass (historically fed to infants in the upper Douro)
Feuerheerd - Phew-her-her-er-er-her-ear-ed (no-one actually know how it is pronounced)
Douro - Dow-roe (meaning "eggs of a Dow fish")
Hutcheson - Ru-bb-ish (ancient Portuguese derivation of pig-swill)
Quarles Harris - Charlie Harris
Messias - Messy ass (historically fed to infants in the upper Douro)
Feuerheerd - Phew-her-her-er-er-her-ear-ed (no-one actually know how it is pronounced)
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: Correct Pronunciations
That'd be the Foyer Herd - the acquaintances that you're forced to invite to parties to be polite, but with whom you do not wish to share your good stuff. So you give them this instead.DRT wrote:Feuerheerd - Phew-her-her-er-er-her-ear-ed (no-one actually know how it is pronounced)
Glenn Elliott
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Re: Correct Pronunciations
Passadouro - Please could you send those Dow fish eggs over here
Cruz - mis-spelling of Crud
Malvedos - Mal V does - bad alien female deer
Terra Feita - Terror Fighter
Cruz - mis-spelling of Crud
Malvedos - Mal V does - bad alien female deer
Terra Feita - Terror Fighter
Port is basically a red drink
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Re: Correct Pronunciations
Didn't The Prodigy once do a song about this quinta?KillerB wrote:Terra Feita - Terror Fighter
Re: Correct Pronunciations
Coincidentally, WinesTilSoldOut.com has Verve-Click-What-Pond-Sardines on sale right now!KillerB wrote:Having just come from a thread on Champagne, it occurred to me that we do not have a correct pronunciations thread. The offending Champagne was Veuve Clicquot, pronounced Verve-Click-What.
Really though, if they'd used quality paper in 1998 the label wouldn't be yellow already.
Glenn Elliott
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Re: Correct Pronunciations
After last night:
Andreson - Jaden Gil Agassi
Andreson - Jaden Gil Agassi
Port is basically a red drink