[Sca-cooks] English wine

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 19, 2005, at 3:27 AM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> 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.

Yeah. Geraldus Cambrensis, Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Isn't there a quote connected with the hospitality level (or lack  
thereof) of Richard II, to the effect that you had to strain the wine  
between your teeth?

Adamantius


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