Myers-Briggs Type?

I can't help it. I'm in the wine business, and every time I see that "Pino Grecio" tag it makes me wince. The grape has many names, but none of them are spelled that way:

Pinot Grigio (Italy)
Pinot Gris (Alsace, France)
Grauer Burgunder or Grauburgunder (Germany and Austria)

It also has about a dozen other aliases around Europe. For example, in Hungary it's sometimes called Crvena Klevanjka (don't ask me to pronounce it!)

OK. I've unburdened my dweeby wine soul. Call the damn stuff whatever you want! It's none of my business!

Ahem. Back to our regularly scheduled program...

I think that means we are both J's on the Myers Briggs... Do you store your wine by year, alphabetically, color of label??

Deborah

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...at how haphazard my wine storage is. I do it by country, sort of. But most of the Burgundy bottles are too fat to fit in the regular rack, so they have their own rack which they share with the other fatties like Champagne.

I don't have any Aussie wines (I think they've gone off the rails in recent years...much too much of a muchness, you know?) but I love Aussie accents and "Eco Echo" is very funny and very clever.

Thanks David.

I agree its hard to find interesting Australian wines around, but once in a while there's a Wirra Wirra Church Block in stock at the local wine store... and that was one of my favorites when I lived there. My days of accumulating wine have been stymied by a wine fridge that froze everything about 6 months ago - including the only seriously good wines I ever owned (two bottles of Pahl Meyer and two Shafers that were both scored at 99 and I won them at a charity auction without realizing that I was getting some seriously seriously good stuff). Now I don't dare try them because I don't know what's worse - drinking something worth hundreds and not being able to really taste the difference, or discovering I've ruined a bottle of a lifetime.

A curse on Vinotemp fridges and all who make them....

Deborah

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How long were the bottles frozen? Did the corks push out? If the corks are intact, and you haven't done anything with the bottles since you defrosted them, they may be okay. Are they cabs? merlot? chardonnay? something else?

If it's the Pahlmeyer merlot or proprietary blend, odds are it's still all right. The merlot is a beast, more than 15% alcohol in the latest release. Hard to hurt it with freezing. Even the chardonnay is 14.9%!

Anyway, the only sure way to find out what's up is to open them! If they're still good, that's great. And if they're not...well, you might try freezing them again, to separate out the alcohol, which will doubtless provide a few BTUs to heat the Spinach house...

The Shafer's a 97 Cab Sav. The Pahl Meyer is going for the record in varieties in a bottle... cab sav, merlot, petit verdot, cab franc and malbec. Those ones kept the corks in. Only about 10% of all bottles blew their corks. Not sure how long things were frozen because I don't go to that part of my basement that often.

I think I can save even more energy by drinking wine, good or bad, and not noticing that the house is cold...

Deborah

I too am anal and into vino, and was bothered by the spelling and thought that perhaps there was a greek or spanish version I didn't know of, so I googled it (before finding this thread), and it appears 29 times on the WWW, once with a (sp?) after it, once on a pizzeria's wine list "Ca'Bolani Pino Grecio Fresh dry with a lively floral bouquet. Bottle $18.00"... so there is a very small group out there, drinking under the Tuscan sun, spelling any old way they like, and probably happier for it. For fear of breaking that idyllic afternoon of drinking, though, I didn't let the original poster know. Besides, pinot grecio drinkers can be nasty drunks...

Cheers,
Deborah

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That is what I get for using google to spell. I googled the wine and cut and pasted it. Damn internet ;)

Where steve I need some box wine!!!

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Just as predators kill off the slowest and weakest animals in a herd, thus strengthening the herd as a whole, so does beer kill off the slowest and weakest brain cells. That is why, the more you drink beer, the smarter you get.

Or so I heard.

Janie
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"The most important attitude to be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey

That is all.

what would you have guessed the majority of the entrants to be?

Anyone can do a high energy show for a few hours.

But after the show the Extrovert hangs out and is fired up. The Introvert needs some down time to re-charge.

Sally

"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz

Steve,

The biggest challenge of an MBTI trainer is to keep the ISTJs from putting everyone's type in stone. They are great enforcers of the law, but need non-ridgid types to be balanced.

The goal is to do all 8 functions well.

In fact, there is alot of proof that people's type changes as they age.
Most people who are growing and attentive to life get interested in areas that demand skills they have yet to learn.

So while I am a BIG picture person. I have learned how to use the internet and my cell phone and stuff that has patterns and details. Don't laugh. That is huge for me.

Anyway, it all has to be tempered with other life experiences.

There is no BAD type (although one type may really not be able to function with another easily because most people think there is really only 1 type (their's) But there are 16 different ways to process data and make decisions (and thousands of variation on the 16).

But understanding functioning explains why when you meet someone you feel as if there is chemistry or at least a sense that you've been friends for a long time.
And the opposite , of course.

Sally

"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz

I'm not Steve.

Couldn't you have come up with a more original name? Obviously, we already HAVE a Stokes!

Janie
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"The most important attitude to be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey

I'm thinking of changing it.

No, no I want you to be Bill, always and forever, really.

Sorry about the nomenclator activity. Must have been a WCM (Without caffiene moment).

It is a perfect example of my eNfj. The N is intuitive/big picture. I skim read everything. It is 'painful' to read every word. I can do it, but...let's just say I can read a book a night, but my comprehension scores are low. I saw Stokes and my brain went to the Stokes file. You are entered as William (because my cousin Billy was really William) which is the second file.

So just when I think I have pulled off the great deception that I am literate...I publically reveal my weakness by insulting you.

Many many apologies, Mr. Bill Stokes.

"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz

I thought maybe it was a new take on the word -- or a new word-- just for MB -- so I went with it.

Why do they spell extrovert as extravert with an a?

Having suffered through a week of training I decided that ISTJs both wrote and taught the course and ENFP (their opposites)were the best teachers.

Bottom line, I think the holders of the MB flame used the extrAvert spelling as insider jargon.

They told me, when I challenged them (which they were not fond of), that they used the rarer (but still in Webster's) spelling to help people keep the two modalities apart in their heads.

I was a problem student because I had a problem with people trying to make something fairly basic into a secret- freaking-society.

If anyone within the sound of my rant cares, the best book on the subject is :

"Please Understand Me"
by Keirsey and Bates (sp?)

But don't listen to me I only drink Zinfindel.

Sally

"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz