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Friday. November 12. 1975
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THE DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE
Wine taster’s dream turns sour
By MICHAEL RUBIN 4
Associated Press Writer
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - It sounded
like a wine lover's dream: be a line judge and
taste dozens of some of California's best
wines.
But before it was over my tongue was
pickled and puckered and my mouth felt like
it had been marinated in a cask forgotten in
some dark corner by the little old winemaker
It seemed so inviting an invitation to join
six wine experts on a wine panel for the an-
nual Sonoma County Harvest Fair judging
No one mentioned it would be work, three
days of dawn-to-dusk, hard-core slurping
Being a devotee of the grape, I couldn 't turn
down this opportunity
that many wines — more than 100 a day —
would leave one’s skull heavily overcast. It
After sniffing and sipping we voted on each
wine, either it won an award or it didn't.
WITH FEW words we set to our task. The
first series of shimmering yellow gold white
would be hard to tell the simple difference Often a beautiful bouquet would entrance a . wines came out, beginning what became a
between red and white wines, much less any • judge, who eagerly tasted it. But on rare " series of unending waves of wine glasses #e
subtle nuance It would even be hard to occasions one could hear a muffled, “Aargh,
remember to go home at night. — do I have to insult my mouth and actually
This isn't to say that a trickle or two of some taste this?" when someone felt it would be
particularly delightful sample didn’t in- olfactory suicide to sip a bad try at
frequently slip down someone’s throat. But it winemaking.
is, alas, infrequent _ And there were times when it was painful
• That’s the frustrating part You come willpower to keep from gleefully imbibing
across something that tastes so good your some enological excellence
KLBJ
REGISTERING A COMPLAINT — Rep Chris Miller.
D-Fort Worth, accused an antifeminist group of
violating election laws and said they should pay, her
and the state damages
BUT MV MOUTH almost needed 'medical
help some 350 glasses of wine later, and none
of my friends was sympathetic They thought
I had enjoyed myself. But they failed to dif-
ferentiate between wine drinking and wine
tasting
We wine experts — they did invite me to be
a judge — must painfully and regretfully spit
out each slurp after rolling it over and around
our palates. Trying to take even a tiny sip of
ears wiggle, but all you’ve got is a dribble in
your glass and you can’t run out and buy so THERE we were Seven of us — Ruth
some because you don't know which winery Ellen Church of the Chicago Tribune. David
it's from — the wines are identified only by Pursglove of the Washington Star, in-
their type and numbers. No names, please ternational wine writer Alexis Bespaloff,
wine editor Henry Rubin of Bon Appetit
ITS ALL very strict Hidden away in Magazine — no relation — and Profs. James
another room under secret code numbers, the Guymon and Cornelius Ough of the University
wines are poured into numbered glasses, then of California at Davis' School of Enology
brought to the judges tables There, the All of us were garbed in white laboratory
grapevine gurus carefully examine each wine coats to guard against some over-enthusiastic
making careful written notes on each facet of swirl bounding out of the glass to stain our
a wine s characteristics color, smell, flavor clothing permanently. We sat at tables
We dip into our knowledge of what a certain layered with white tableclothes Bright klieg
grape variety's wine tastes like -each has its lights blazed over our shoulders to provide a
own distinctions — and then try to decide how perfect background under which to judge the
good, or bad, each sample is. wines’ colors.
Miller claims women’s
group broke state law
AUSTIN, Tex (UPI) — Rep Chris Miller,
D-Fort Worth, often has been a target of
antifeminist groups She says one
organization violated state law in its attempt
to -unseat her
She said the antifeminist group Women
Who Want to Be Women violated Texas
election laws and said they didn't understand
things like the Equal Rights Amendment.
"For the last two years, the Association of
the W’s have bombarded both the legislators
and the citizens with false and misleading
statements on the Equal Legal Rights
Amendment of the State of Texas and the
federal ERA Ms Miller said
"It is time for them — and the people of this
great state — to recognize that those who
cannot understand Texas law well enough to
avoid breaking it should not attempt to in-
terpret the Texas Constitution and its laws or
amendments to the Unied States Con-
stitution."
the Fort Worth Sunday Observer urging
opponents of the ERA to vote agamst her 4
"The Association of the W's, a nonprofit
corporation chartered by the state of Texas,
has in an advertisement apparently violated
several sections of the Texas Election Code in
an effort to prevent my reelection," she said.
Texas law prohibits corporations from
making contributions or expenditures in
elections Violators can be sent to prison for
two to 10 years
Ms Miller said she would not file criminal
charges against the group but had asked
Secretary of State Mark White to enforce
provisions of the statute making violators
subject to, civil penalties
She said the statute indicated groups
making such illegal expenditures were liable
to pay each opposing candidate double the
amount of the unlawful expenditure or con-
tribution, and to pay the state triple the
amount. —
Ms Miller said the incorporated group
illegally purchased a $330 advertisement in
Ms Miller won 56 per cent of the vote in her
bid for a third House term She said she has no
indication her Republican opponent. Dr
Dorothy Patras, had any knowledge of the
illegal advertising by the antifeminist group
That’s slow mail service
* SEATTLE (UPI) — Postal
officials called it "out of the
ordinary” when it took 17
months for Mildred Mayhle
of Seattle to receive a letter
from the State Employes
Insurance Board in nearby
Olympia
She received the letter last
Friday It was postmarked
June 9, 1975 r
The envelope had Mrs.
Mayhle's correct address,
where she has lived for 13
years. The zip code was
correct and the postage was
paid.
"I think this is plain
ridiculous," said Mrs
Mayhle. “I just don't un-
derstand this mess."
Ron Stockton, a local
postal official, admitted the
situation "is beyond com-
prehension"
Usually when long-lost
letters are discovered, they
are marked with some kind
of explanation. Stockton
said But Mrs Mayhle's
letter, mailed from 60 miles
away, had none.
"We do make mistakes
Were all human beings,"
said Stockton. “But this
really is out of the ordinary."
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eagerly worked our way through the opening
rounds of white wines. Joyous fruity
fragances and perfumes filling our noses.
Things got more difficult when we returned
after a brief break aad found awaiting our
opinion IB numbered glasses of Pinot Char-
donnays, the finest white wine grape of
California and France There were the tiniest
subtleties of grape flavor and intensity to leak
for as well as variations of wood aging
Our knees got wobbly by Me afternoon of
the second day when, already weary, we
came face-to-face with 25 patent Zinfandels,
the heady berryish red wine
At the end of three days they told us we each
had tasted 3«7 separate glasses of wine,
averaged 1,388 tastes each: as a group gene
through 2,429 glasses of wine and proclaimed
our opinions based on a losal al 9,716 tastes
No count was made of stained teeth.
We awarded seven gold medals M some
outstanding wines
That should have been enough, but let me
tell you about the dynamite wine I had with
dinner that night
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