You know your bandwagon's got steam when even the French hop on

[Thomas]

Call me crazy, maybe even haughty, but words like "crap" comments like "hide behind warhorse notion" sound an awful lot like invective (n.; a strong verbal attack--Oxford Modern English).

And if I choose to respond to ideas with counter ideas I hardly think a discerning mind could interpret that act as meaning I do not brook (v.tr.; tolerate) the ideas, but merely disagree (v.intr.; hold a different opinion...) and choose to say so. I admit, however, that I sometimes wonder why I choose to say so!

And the paragraph I wrote about our philosophy of selling wine fits into what SB says he believes about the consumer. Yet, those who grow grapes and produce wine MUST hold on to truths about what constitutes identity as well as quality. "Terroir" is only one of those truths.



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 04-05-2003).]