I learned about great wine through people sharing with me. I want to share the best of food and wine with friends and family. I do not keep the best slice of the roast or the best slice of pie for myself. If the wine or food is great I will have a great drink and a great dinner… I hope everyone is does too.
… just to play Devil’s Advocate here …
Do you maintain your “best slice of roast” stance for the person who insists of having their steak well-done, slathered in Heinz 57 sauce? 
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*****Peter, that is the soundest advice ever. 
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Hmmmm…Phil : let me tell you a story.
One of favorite and old my wine-friends in Montreal, QC, Canada ( who is from Italy and was also a member of my 2 Ms Club,Montreal Branch ) did share one of his best wines with someone’s wife without letting his wife know about it.
But he was not careful …and got caught by his wife.
He told us about the above incident during one of our regular wine-event meeting ( which is always men only ). So we all asked him, what happened then …
He said his wife was very angry and mad at him, because the bottle was one of his wife’s favorite wines too.
So in order not to start a fight or argument. he put on his cloths and ran away from his house and told his wife : ***Honey, that was not what you think it is **
Two of the members of the club - who were like me, born and educated in Hong Kong - look at him with a smile and then stared laughing very loud and continuously.
As I am the President of the 2 Ms Club, I wanted to maintain the wine event in an orderly manner, I asked the 2 guys to stop laughing and asked them why : they laughed.
Both of them replied : we did that once in a while, but we never got caught !!!
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Name calling is a poor defense,People have expressed different ways they handle opening wine at events. I did not read anyone indicating that their way was superior. Different is not better or worse. I would like to be able ti express my opinion on this board, and so should others, without name calling, I enjoy the differences on this board and have learned from them
Hmmmm…it looks like we are near the end this nice thread.
I would share with everyone the following which is a poem written long ago by the Chinese wine God LEE Bai under the title : Going to drink Wine.
Here is the translation - which is not mine.
李白
See how the Yellow River’s waters move out of heaven.
Entering the ocean, never to return.
See how lovely locks in bright mirrors in high chambers,
Though silken-black in the morning, it has changed by night to snow.
…Oh, let a man of spirit venture where he pleases
And never tip his golden cup empty toward the moon!
Since heaven gave the talent, let it be employed!
Spin a thousand pieces of silver, all of them come back!
Cook a sheep, kill a cow, whet the appetite,
And make me, of three hundred bowls, one long drink!
…To the old master, Cen,
And the young scholar, Danqiu,
Bring in the wine!
Let your cups never rest!
Let me sing you a song!
Let your ears attend!
What are bell and drum, rare dishes and treasure?
Let me be forever drunk and never come to reason!
Sober men of olden days and sages are forgotten,
And only the great drinkers are famous for all time.
…Prince Chen paid at a banquet in the Palace of Perfection
Ten thousand coins for a cask of wine, with many a laugh and quip.
Why say, my host, that your money is gone?
Go and buy wine and we’ll drink it together!
My flower-dappled horse,
My furs worth a thousand,
Hand them to the boy to exchange for good wine,
And we’ll drown away the woes of ten thousand generations!
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In the Jewish tradition, the highest form of charity (tzedakah) is to give anonymously without knowing the recipient. A purely altruistic act.
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A friend of the equally great Du Fu. Thanks for this!
Very interesting…merci.