Shit. 20 quid is like $A50. I'd never pay more than about $A25 for a Sav Blanc here. (Well, I probably wouldn't even pay that much unless I wanted to impress my mum.) I'd be unhappy paying that much for a drinkable claret.
No. It isn't. There is an objective difference between good wine and bad wine, but some people are less fastidious than others. Thus, Kaiser Stuhl still has a market.
This is probably going to sound a bit elitist and patronising, but that's not my intention. Generally, young people prefer sweeter drinks (including wine). As you get older, your palate matures, and you start to prefer dryer wines and those with more complex flavours. (This applies to both beer and wine, btw.)
Give it a couple of years. While Beaujolais might not float your boat now, try a good dry red wine from any of the great wine-producing countries. (I know there are good wines from Australia, France, Spain and Italy, but I know nothing about California.)
I'm just finishing off the second bottle (actually, the first one was only a third left from last night, so it's not _quite_ as bad as it sounds... ) of Barossa Cab-Merlot blend - quite cheap, but yummy. Scew cap. I wish everyone would use them, much better than corks.
Why would you live anywhere that wasn't an hour's drive from the Barossa Valley?
Actually, smelling the cork will tell you whether or not the wine is corked. If the cork smells mouldy, the wine will be, at best, inferior. Smelling the bottle, otoh, will tell you very little immediately after it's opened.
People who know nothing about wine may well snuffle at the cork, but they don't know why they should.
Clearly you don't drink enough of the stuff. I've had some exceptionally fine headaches from Australian shiraz. (It's the second bottle that does it...)
I've not had any Little Penguin, though. Where's it from? (Open Sauce?)
This is actually not true. Just think about the times you've had to poke that last beer down with a stick.
On a more serious note, my uncle (who, like one of my mum's boyfriends (see earlier post) is a bit of a wine wanker) got it right on one Christmas binge I recall (dimly). I was under the illusion that if we drank the _really_ _exceptionally_ _good_ red he brought first, then got stuck into the comparatively second-rate stuff I had later, it'd be OK. He suggested that we'd be better off graduating to the good stuff. He was right, I was wrong. (Disclaimer - we were both staggering-drunk at the point we agreed he was right and I was wrong (there'd been a fair bit of beer earlier in the day). I hated that. Fucker's always right. He's a lawyer.)
The first time I recall tasting any Beaujolais Nouveau (over 40 years ago - I must have been about 13, and pretentious with it), my mum's new boyfriend (who taught French at the university) brought a bottle of frog wine around and, having only tasted well-aged South Australian shiraz and cab-sav based wines at that stage (her previous boyfriend was a bit of a wine wanker), I said, "It's a bit young." (These days, I reckon if you chilled a Beaujolais a bit, it'd be nice at a barbie. A good grease-cutter.)
Mum actually agreed (later and in private) that she thought it was a tad thin, too. Ah, the arrogance and certainty of youth! How I miss it.
Fucking chardonnay! Only poofters and sheilas drink white wine - fuck subtlety, get a decent Coonawarra shiraz into youself. Or a beer. (My apologies if you happen to be either same-sex oriented or female.)
To be honest, I do like botrytis-infected whites as a dessert wine in summer (but I prefer port in the winter). But I'm not a poofter, no, no, no.
If it can make the case (or what's left of it) of the rather syrupy 2004 McLaren Vale shiraz I paid a whole $A6 per bottle for, I want one. Otoh, it'll probably be cheaper to leave the remaining 9 bottles for a couple more years (or use them for cooking). At that, it's already better than the Chateau Cardboard I usually cook with.
Oh, and I know how corrupt the Labor govt who preceded Joh in Queensland were too. I'm old enough to remember it. I think that's a Queensland thing, though. It's our Deep North (a bit like Mississippi, for you northern hemisphere folk).
I never said the US had a monopoly on corruption (after all, it's a necessary cost of doing business in the Middle East, as our Wheat Board and the wonderful folk who do live sheep exports have discovered), but you have to admit they're very, very good at it (practice makes perfect).
Show me. Don't forget to include Phil Lynch, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen and all his little friends (yeah, I know they were Cuntry Party, but it's the same). Oh, and John Olsen.
Most of the truly, deeply corrupt Labor politicians (except for Brian Burke) are from the right wing of the New South Wales Labor Party, so I reckon they'd probably count as conservatives too.
Oh, crikey! I reckon I might have slandered a few people. Fuck 'em.
Oh, I forgot - George Wallace was a Democrat, too... in the fine old nigger-lynching Southern style. I don't think he would have qualified as a liberal either.
I just think this underscores that politics in many "democracies", but particularly in the US, is deeply corrupt. The Japanese sent a delegation to the US in the mid nineteenth century to see how democracy worked, and it took them about 15 seconds to realise what it was about - "Oh, this is all about bribery and influence-peddling. We can do this."
Who knew you had bad intelligence? Shit, how stupid are you? _Everyone_ who thought about it for more than 3 seconds knew the intelligence was fraudulent. The whole War On Terror (TM) is just theatre designed to keep dumb pricks like you so terrified you'll keep voting for men with the souls of thieves forever. (Jesus. You just can't have a sensible discussion with these people.)
By the way, I used not to be sure whether Bush was a rogue or a fool, but recently I realised the categories weren't mutually exclusive. It also doesn't mean that he isn't being manipulated by other rogues (and Roves).
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In light of recent disclosures both in the USA (Abramof) and here in Australia (the Wheat Board) I don't trust conservatives to behave honestly. (Not that I ever did, it's just that it's nice to have your prejudices confirmed.)
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Shit. 20 quid is like $A50. I'd never pay more than about $A25 for a Sav Blanc here. (Well, I probably wouldn't even pay that much unless I wanted to impress my mum.) I'd be unhappy paying that much for a drinkable claret.
Or rummy ...
No. It isn't. There is an objective difference between good wine and bad wine, but some people are less fastidious than others. Thus, Kaiser Stuhl still has a market.
$A10 for 4 litres is not even fit for cooking with. Must be fucken Paddle Wheel or Kaiser Stool or something.
This is probably going to sound a bit elitist and patronising, but that's not my intention. Generally, young people prefer sweeter drinks (including wine). As you get older, your palate matures, and you start to prefer dryer wines and those with more complex flavours. (This applies to both beer and wine, btw.)
Give it a couple of years. While Beaujolais might not float your boat now, try a good dry red wine from any of the great wine-producing countries. (I know there are good wines from Australia, France, Spain and Italy, but I know nothing about California.)
You're _never_ too old for the second bottle (unless you have to work in the morning).
Australian shiraz is definitely the food of the gods. Even the cheap shit is pretty good. (We are truly blessed in this place, gods' own country.)
Mmmmm .... Barossa Shiraz. (drools)
... ) of Barossa Cab-Merlot blend - quite cheap, but yummy. Scew cap. I wish everyone would use them, much better than corks.
I'm just finishing off the second bottle (actually, the first one was only a third left from last night, so it's not _quite_ as bad as it sounds
Why would you live anywhere that wasn't an hour's drive from the Barossa Valley?
Actually, smelling the cork will tell you whether or not the wine is corked. If the cork smells mouldy, the wine will be, at best, inferior. Smelling the bottle, otoh, will tell you very little immediately after it's opened.
People who know nothing about wine may well snuffle at the cork, but they don't know why they should.
My mum (being a sheila, she drinks white wines) reckons the Cloudy Bay Sav Blanc is OK. It's from New Zealand, isn't it?
It's heaps cheaper than that here, btw. If you like wine, move to Australia.
Sydney in summer is vile. It rains all the time, but without the charm of Darwin.
Clearly you don't drink enough of the stuff. I've had some exceptionally fine headaches from Australian shiraz. (It's the second bottle that does it ...)
I've not had any Little Penguin, though. Where's it from? (Open Sauce?)
This is actually not true. Just think about the times you've had to poke that last beer down with a stick.
On a more serious note, my uncle (who, like one of my mum's boyfriends (see earlier post) is a bit of a wine wanker) got it right on one Christmas binge I recall (dimly). I was under the illusion that if we drank the _really_ _exceptionally_ _good_ red he brought first, then got stuck into the comparatively second-rate stuff I had later, it'd be OK. He suggested that we'd be better off graduating to the good stuff. He was right, I was wrong. (Disclaimer - we were both staggering-drunk at the point we agreed he was right and I was wrong (there'd been a fair bit of beer earlier in the day). I hated that. Fucker's always right. He's a lawyer.)
Do youself a favour. A decent merlot is great with roast lamb. Or grenache, that's OK too.
The first time I recall tasting any Beaujolais Nouveau (over 40 years ago - I must have been about 13, and pretentious with it), my mum's new boyfriend (who taught French at the university) brought a bottle of frog wine around and, having only tasted well-aged South Australian shiraz and cab-sav based wines at that stage (her previous boyfriend was a bit of a wine wanker), I said, "It's a bit young." (These days, I reckon if you chilled a Beaujolais a bit, it'd be nice at a barbie. A good grease-cutter.)
Mum actually agreed (later and in private) that she thought it was a tad thin, too. Ah, the arrogance and certainty of youth! How I miss it.
Fucking chardonnay! Only poofters and sheilas drink white wine - fuck subtlety, get a decent Coonawarra shiraz into youself. Or a beer. (My apologies if you happen to be either same-sex oriented or female.)
To be honest, I do like botrytis-infected whites as a dessert wine in summer (but I prefer port in the winter). But I'm not a poofter, no, no, no.
If it can make the case (or what's left of it) of the rather syrupy 2004 McLaren Vale shiraz I paid a whole $A6 per bottle for, I want one. Otoh, it'll probably be cheaper to leave the remaining 9 bottles for a couple more years (or use them for cooking). At that, it's already better than the Chateau Cardboard I usually cook with.
Oh, and I know how corrupt the Labor govt who preceded Joh in Queensland were too. I'm old enough to remember it. I think that's a Queensland thing, though. It's our Deep North (a bit like Mississippi, for you northern hemisphere folk).
I never said the US had a monopoly on corruption (after all, it's a necessary cost of doing business in the Middle East, as our Wheat Board and the wonderful folk who do live sheep exports have discovered), but you have to admit they're very, very good at it (practice makes perfect).
Show me. Don't forget to include Phil Lynch, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen and all his little friends (yeah, I know they were Cuntry Party, but it's the same). Oh, and John Olsen.
Most of the truly, deeply corrupt Labor politicians (except for Brian Burke) are from the right wing of the New South Wales Labor Party, so I reckon they'd probably count as conservatives too.
Oh, crikey! I reckon I might have slandered a few people. Fuck 'em.
Oh, I forgot - George Wallace was a Democrat, too ... in the fine old nigger-lynching Southern style. I don't think he would have qualified as a liberal either.
I just think this underscores that politics in many "democracies", but particularly in the US, is deeply corrupt. The Japanese sent a delegation to the US in the mid nineteenth century to see how democracy worked, and it took them about 15 seconds to realise what it was about - "Oh, this is all about bribery and influence-peddling. We can do this."
Daley was a Democrat, not a liberal. "Democrat-Republican" and "liberal-conservative" are orthogonal.
And yes, he was a supremely corrupt fucker. What's your point?
Who knew you had bad intelligence? Shit, how stupid are you? _Everyone_ who thought about it for more than 3 seconds knew the intelligence was fraudulent. The whole War On Terror (TM) is just theatre designed to keep dumb pricks like you so terrified you'll keep voting for men with the souls of thieves forever. (Jesus. You just can't have a sensible discussion with these people.)
By the way, I used not to be sure whether Bush was a rogue or a fool, but recently I realised the categories weren't mutually exclusive. It also doesn't mean that he isn't being manipulated by other rogues (and Roves).
If the best you can do is an ad hominem attack, I mourn for the death of your last brain cell.
Face facts. Your government (and mine, in Australia) are taking on fascist traits at a disturbing rate.
More likely:
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In light of recent disclosures both in the USA (Abramof) and here in Australia (the Wheat Board) I don't trust conservatives to behave honestly. (Not that I ever did, it's just that it's nice to have your prejudices confirmed.)
I would have paid good money to see that.