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World Cup Of Wine - Group B

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Who makes the best wine?  

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  1. 1. Who makes the best wine?

    • Germany
      4
    • New Zealand
      8
    • Portugal
      2
    • Uruguay
      3

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  • Poll closed on 05/08/20 at 14:55

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Pick as many as you like - top two go through.

Tournament programme:

10 countries have been put straight through to the finals (France,Germany,Spain,Italy,S Africa,Australia,NZ,USA,Argentina,Chile) leaving 6 to join them.

2 groups, 1 Europe, 1 ROW with 3 to qualify from each. The finals will be 4 groups of 4, with 2 qualifiers going into the semis, which are 2 groups of four, winners to the final.

Group A -  France, Australia, Argentina, Greece
Group B - Germany, NZ, Portugal, Uruguay
Group C - Spain, Chile, England, Lebanon
Group D - Italy, USA, S Africa, Canada

Semi #1 - France, R/U Group B, Winner Group C, R/U Group D
Semi #2 - Winner Group B, Australia, Winner Group D, R/U Group C

"I am the avenging angel; I come with wings unfurled, I come with claws extended from halfway round the world. I am the God Almighty, I am the howling wind. I care not for your family; I care not for your kin. I come in search of terror, though terror is my own; I come in search of vengeance for crimes and crimes unknown. I care not for your children, I care not for your wives, I care not for your country, I care not for your lives." - (c) Jim Boyes - "The Avenging Angel"

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Some of you have clearly only ever drunk Blue Nun. A proper German wine is a thing of beauty.

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Certainly not German wine, watered down with petrol it normally tastes like

Greek wine tastes like it has been boosted by nail polish remover

Uruguayan wine has,

Portugese wine has had it's grapes chewed and spat out by 90 year old toothless women then fermented in their fathers old socks.

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49 minutes ago, Bleep1673 said:

Canadian wine is so bad the Americans don't drink it!

Edit> Canadian wine is so bad they don't export it deliberately

It exports 2 million litres per year and is the worlds largest producer of icewine.

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3 hours ago, Bleep1673 said:

Greek wine tastes like it has been boosted by nail polish remover

There is more to Greek wine than Retsina, thankfully.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1 hour ago, Bleep1673 said:

Ice wine sounds like they have to freeze it cold enough that you can't taste it.

It's made from grapes that are left on the vine until winter. They dehydrate until they are like raisins then when they freeze the pickers go out before dawn and hand pick them. 

The wine is very sweet but because the grapes have started to rot they have a level of acidity that stops it being just sugar.

Its lovely with a pudding. 

 

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