"You have to respect Ntsiki; she comes from a culture that is so thoroughly alien to wine," said Tim James, a leading wine critic.
Adulthood, I assumed, was as likely to offer you alien planets as rhubarb wine at suburban dinner parties.
Soon I was gorging myself on fine foods and choice wines, before relishing "Alien" (Ridley Scott) and then the sequel, "Aliens James Cameronon).
They were only funny back then because they were so alien to people's experience of wine, but now apparently they have become acceptable critical terms.
Breitbart cited ICE's release in a Thursday news story, in which the headline read: "ICE Director: Suspected Wine Country Arsonist Is Illegal Alien Mexican National".
"Coming from a wine background, peat is an alien flavor," he says.
In the 19th century, alien imports from America almost destroyed and then saved—French wine for the world.The phylloxera parasite came close to wiping the French wine industry off the map.
THE extraordinary modern-day influence of Robert Parker, an American, (see article) over the fate of the French wine industry might seem blasphemous and alien to traditionalists.
It was a jolly Woodstockian scene, with lots of pot and wine and people dressed up as aliens and pieces of green cheese and the like.
This is mostly because rieslings soar to their greatest heights in Germany and Alsace, wine regions that many Americans regard as alien and intimidating.
