The rest of the article is similarly full of praise.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
“5 Dry Portuguese Wines That Will Knock Your Socks Off”
“5 Dry Portuguese Wines That Will Knock Your Socks Off”
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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?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.
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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.
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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?
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?
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My socks remain in place.
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Just your socks?
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I like my socks to remain where they are while drinking wine. I find it quite distracting otherwise.
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I know of no one who refers to Indiana for anything. Very nonsensical statement.djewesbury wrote: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?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.
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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
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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