[Sca-cooks] English wine

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 11:09 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote:
>Lainie mentioned:
>>I think it was Geoffery of Wales who noted that the English wines were so
>>ghastly that one drank them with a shudder, straining it through the teeth...
>
>Perhaps, but this is the quote I have:
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>"English wine is more fit to be sieved rather than drunk."
>     - Peter of Blois, 12th c.
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> From someone's sig. line, I think from this list. I've saved this to add 
> to the top of the Florilegium wine-msg file.

Well, if it helps any, I got the name wrong- it should have bee Gerald of 
Wales, not Geoffery. I was thinking Geoffery because I've been reading his 
_History of the Kings of Britain_. My bad.

I can't find the quote- if/when I do, I'll pass it along.

'Lainie
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