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Spaghetti Red and a Seductive Nose

"Don't you find," he said, "that there's a funny taste of chicken coops in Rhone wines? Especially Beaucastel."

"Chicken coops?" Was he pulling my leg?

"Even the great wines, you know, have a whiff of chicken coops. It's well known."

I offered him a glass of the Beaucastel. I tasted it again, now frantically looking for traces of sublimated chicken coops. The waiter winked at me, was he suggesting I'd been had?

"Taste it?" he said. "A bit poopy, eh?

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