Wine

[cappy]

###just come in after mowing the small lawn ...then a nice chilled cape rose and abowl of extra large greek green destoned green olives ....temp just about right and the family dog nuzzling in ....what more can an old seaman want .....the beloved is smiling ....mind that could be the wine.....had to put me hat on for the sun...as we say in shields whyyebuggerman i wouldnt call the captain me uncle .........cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

We've found a couple of 'clean skins' (small wineries selling through merchants) chardonnay and merlot at A$30 a half dozen case. Been quaffing it for years. Special occasions warrants a browse along the shelves. When we moved to Jakarta in 1976 I was browsing the old Kota Bahru Chinese shops and found some old European wines. I checked them out and they were in perfect health. They were glad to see them go 'because they were too old'. They were mostly fantastic and this lasted for a couple of years until someone must have put them wise.
In a Manila supermarket in 1983 there was a bin of 'quick sales' in which there was three bottles of old vintage Chateau d'Yquem Sauternes. I paid the equivalent of A$15 for them.
Richard

Good taste and lucky.

Keith.

[Charlie Hannah]

My favorite drop Keith!

[Charlie Hannah]

I used to like the wine lodges in Liverpool , dark drab places which looked as though the insides had ever been painted. Long bars , wooden decks and wine barrels , no T.V.s or juke boxes to disrupt the conversations. After an afternoon on large Ausie white you would come out with a glowing bronzy ready to take on the world.

Louis,Two large whites a Bobby would look like a boyscoat

[happy daze john in oz]

Wine here in Oz is fast taking over from beer, though beer sales are still good.

Many of our top wines, some the very best, go for export where the price will make a handsome profit for the winery.
Sav Blanc is all the go just now with some very good ones coming in from NZ.

Not many overseas wines on sale here, but why would we import when we have some of the worlds best.
Unlike many of the European one we arte not allowed to add sugar to them, the sun brings out the natural sugar.

We have been advised by medical circles to only drink one glass a day, so I bought a one pint wine glass.