French Wine

[Jean Ribault]

Since there is a topic on "Rum", shouldn't there also be a topic on French Wine?  (Of course)

 

What are you other Captains loading up your holds with, and delivering to other ports, or drinking yourself before you get there?  As for me, I'm drinking a fine red Burgundy Grand Cru, the Dujac Clos De La Roche.  Trying to improve the taste of that Iberian Meat!

 

If you can catch my trader on the way to La Mona, it would be a waste to sink me.  Come aboard and let's have a drink of this instead!

 

 

[Tief N Tote]

what about cheese their should be a topic for that too to go with the wine

[Jean Ribault]

Here ya go, extra aged manchego reserve, yum.  One of my favs, great by itself, but goes great with that burgundy.  What are you drinking?

 

Edited May 12, 2016 by Jean Ribault

[Tief N Tote]

Here ya go, extra aged manchego reserve, yum.  One of my favs, great by itself, but goes great with that burgundy.  What are you drinking?

 

i'm a beer drinker but i do love good cheese

[HardyKnox]

There should be a item in the game for "American Whiskey" made from Corn (Rye or Maize) and aged in charred American Oak Barrels.

 

Of course, if no whiskey tax has been paid, it will be subject to seizure by the U.S. Treasury Revenue Cutters patrolling off the coast of America.

 

Here's the song sung by Gordon Lightfoot and friends, "Copper Kettle":

 

 

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil
Fill it with new made corn mash
And never more you'll toil

 

You'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight

 

Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak
Don't use no green or rotten wood
They'll get you by the smoke

 

We'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight

 

My daddy, he made whiskey
My granddaddy, he did too
We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792

 

We'll just lay there by the juniper
While the moon is bright
Watch them jugs a filling in the pale moonlight

 

In the pale moonlight

 

Songwriters
A.F. BEDDOE

Published by
Lyrics © T.R.O. INC.

[Jean Ribault]

Well now, chanced upon a lonely Dutch trader and decided to pull alongside for a friendly exchange

Lo and behold what did I find in his hidden stores?  None other than an 1811 Napolean....

 

 

[Jean Ribault]

OK, the forums seem to be very tense today. 

 

Therefore I have decided to unload a few cases of this fine french wine off of my LGV for us all to consume together at a free port and enjoy some merriment.  NA Developers sorry none for you since you have to keep working, LOL.  This is an expensive red burgundy, but God knows I have plenty of this in my warehouse and on my ships, since I've smuggled loads of it right underneath the Brits' noses so that it's not even funny anymore...  

 

The rules are simple: if you can pronounce it you can drink it!  (2010 Comte de Vogue Musigny Vieilles Vignes)

 

Edited May 25, 2016 by Jean Ribault

[Jean Ribault]

Looks like we need some more comradery again lately.  So who will have a drink with me and this perfect smile?    Searching through the holds of my exceptional LGV I found a white wine mix that will entertain us all and take the edge off.  Come into the tavern, take a load off, and raise a few glasses.

 

I'm more of a red wine fan, but this highly rated white, a mix of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon is still pleasing to even the most critical.  It is bright and clear, and perfectly balanced with the right chill.  Or just be a pirate and slug it down, there are plenty of bottles in the hold.

 

We are drinking together in La Mona, by the way.  No-gank timeframe for participants is 6:00 to 7:00 EST.  This activity can only exist on PVP2; alas on PVP1 we understand that Ego Inocencio Botijo, Metropolitan Bishop of La Havana, and the Holy Catholic Church, forbids it there.

 

 

[Lytse Pier]

Dutch cheese on Swedish knackebrot with some French wine and a good cold glass of Danish beer. Heaven.

[Jean Ribault]

Well then, you are still welcome at my table Captain.  Cheers!  And yes, I seem to have forgotten the cheese haven't I?

[Hyperion74]

I'm not much for wine but I do think that cheese is a little bit of heaven. If there are any Europeans looking at this, tell me if ye can. Is cheese stupid expensive there like it is here. That manchego that Jean showed is like $10 an ounce where I live. That's some damme fine cheese though.

 

This whole thread reminded me of a song. Heres the line. The song is "He went to Paris" written by Jimmy Buffett.

 

But the warm summer breezes

The French wine and cheeses

Put his ambition at bay

 

Summers and winters

Scattered like splinters

And four or five years slipped away

[Jean Ribault]

Tip of the day:

$95 for a 7-lb wheel of that manchego online at igourmet. 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Jean Ribault

[Æthlstan]

The bottle of wine I bought in Paris when I was young

[Jean Ribault]

Bring it to the pvp2 Tavern in Plymouth Friday night, we're having another party.  Even pirates are welcome, if they come and go in a trader.    I'm bringing an LGV load of hemp too, gonna raffle it off in 750-unit groups.

Edited June 21, 2016 by Jean Ribault

[Villaret Joyeuse]

You bring the wine and I will sneak over and borrow some Beer I'm sure the Danes wont mind  indeed they can even bring there own providing there is some left  let the party begin, Friday is way to far away,

[Hyperion74]

Well, I'm bringing the grill and hot dogs. Dogs love cheese so that means that cheese goes good with hot dogs,

[Jean Ribault]

Time to gear up for this weekend's celebration on PVP2 with an affordable French Bordeaux, a 2005 Chateau Larose-Trintaudon Haut-Medoc.  It's a bold red blend of Cab and Merlot.  We're moving to Tumbado, there's reportedly a lot of wine consumption there and the docks are full of taverns and back alley drunkards.    Someone else will have to ship in the pork and beef rations, as my hold will be full.

 

See you all there ....unless the pirates intercept the Traders Cutter full of it and this shipment can't be delivered.  I hear Mr. Doomed is looking for me. 

 

Edited July 19, 2016 by Jean Ribault

[Jean Ribault]

They're known to be heavy drinkers in St. George's.  Weekend's a great time to transport a fine French wine there to celebrate at the closest tavern.  Happen to have a case of this exceptional Burgundy in the hold:

2014 Louis Jadot Batard Montrachet Gran Cru