Years ago, I used to catsit 2-3x/yr for good friends when they went on vacation.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Cool cats. Cool condo. Great gig.
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They wanted to pay me for my "troubles". I declined... saying, "This is
just what friends DO."
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One of the smartest moves I ever "made". To thank me, they would take me
out for a very nice meal somewhere in Tucson -- and they were serious
foodies... so they KNEW "nice" meals (he was a captain at the finest
restaurant in town -- Janos -- and had been in the business for about
20+ years).
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We went to Janos once. Truly, TRULY sublime. With dessert, we got a
muscat dessert wine. I had always thought muscat wine to be in the
company of muscatel, which I associated with cheap CHEAP rotgut
fortified wines favored by down-and-out alcoholics. And I've always
associated "dessert wines" with cheap sickeningly sweet Mogen-David
wines.
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The finest meal I probably ever had in my life (and I've had some
very fine meals) -- and this little glass of wine may have been the
highest point of the meal.
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My goodness!!!
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It was lightly sparkling. I can't find in my research the answer to THIS
question -- are ALL muscats sparkling (there are several muscat wines
flanking the champagne/sparkling wine display at my grocery store, but
none of them mention "sparkling" on the labels). One thing I found is
that muscats from Italy are sometimes(?), often(?), always(?) sparkling
but the info SEEMS to infer that they are identified as muscat ASTI on
their labels.
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Oenophiles, please? What's the scoop on muscat wines?
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[Kali]

1. no, they are usually still

had a few when I went to Germany and M took me around and down to Alsace. Loved some of them. I was like you - thought they were bum wines. And because you were making fun of me I will now brag about what is sitting in my refrigerator - 3 bottles of hand-carried local Rieslings from the Rheingau. nya nya nya

oh - and a bottle of Palinka from Hungary via the Hungarians we traveled with in 2009.:9

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. I will now brag about what is sitting in my refrigerator - 3 bottles of hand-carried local Rieslings

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... You are a cruel, CRUEL woman.
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Do you need any catsitting done?
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Oh... no reason.
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[Kali]

3. sorry, no

that would mean M and I would be traveling somewhere together and we went to Albuquerque this summer - that was all we can handle for a few years:rofl: