Subj : Re: Help me here .. I am confused ?
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Dec 09 2022 08:04:00

-=> Spectre wrote to Adept <=-

 Ad> That said, I do imagine there's some more-unique Australian wines out
 Ad> there, but my knowledge of Australian wine is mostly just mass-produced
 Ad> things that are unlikely to be sublime.

"quaffable, but not yet transcendent..."

 Sp> Ha! Probably the biggest contribution to wine from Austraya, is the
 Sp> "Goon Bag", being the guts out of cask wine.. chuckle.  Not much of a
 Sp> wine drinker either aside from the odd red occasionally. Finding a wine
 Sp> I enjoy is rather hard work. There are some wines out of WA that are
 Sp> meant to be flash, and we grow almost every grape variety there is, but
 Sp> some of our vin ordinaire is meant to punch above its weight.

Their Pinots noir are nice. I live on the California coast, and our climate 
is cool and moist, with lots of morning fog. All of the pinots here have the 
same presentation - lots of dark cherry. They're some of my favorites, as I 
suffer from Cabernet Sauvignon burnout - Napa Valley and sonoma got too 
oakey, too alcohol-laden.

 Ad> What's something more "Australian" that you do consume?

 Sp> To pop out of left field, there's always Bundaberg Ginger Beer, its a
 Sp> brewed softdrink.. no alcohol.. cold one on a hot day... hmmm also
 Sp> seens to work with some flavours of asian food.

One of my old callers went on the wagon and started drinking ginger beer at 
parties. They're distinctive.

He disappeared for a month off my BBS, and we wondered where he'd gone off 
to. He re-appeared with a post detailing all the things he'd learned when he 
stopped drinking. I don't remember any of them except number 5:

"I didn't realize until I stopped drinking that I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DANCE."


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