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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.

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)

DRT wrote:Feuerheerd - Phew-her-her-er-er-her-ear-ed (no-one actually know how it is pronounced)

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.

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

KillerB wrote:Terra Feita - Terror Fighter

Didn't The Prodigy once do a song about this quinta?

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.

Coincidentally, WinesTilSoldOut.com has Verve-Click-What-Pond-Sardines on sale right now!

Really though, if they'd used quality paper in 1998 the label wouldn't be yellow already.

After last night:

Andreson - Jaden Gil Agassi