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    Unhappy Where are my mates?

    OK wine drinkers, what's the problem? No good drops lately? Consumed by other passions?

    See that some Pommy research has it that imbibing alcohol increases the risk of cancer!!!

    Well bugger me!! If I'm going to get cancer I might as well enjoy it!

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    At least we'll go down happy!

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    I used to drink wine and enjoyed it too, but first I gave up whites and now I've quit reds. White imbibing ceased when I fully understood the commercial making practice, and reds because I can no longer behave after drinking two glasses - it knocks me about too much.
    I still like the red but can't drink it safely.

    soth

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    I've been drinking that one where you don't need to get to go up in the middle of the night:

    Pinot more!

    Graham

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    I'v been trying out a few different chardonnays (we are really spoiled for choice here in Oz), but keep coming back to the reds. I like 'em solid, earthy, unpretentious, a little shy, with a bit of kick. I also like red wine

    Tex

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    Whites go to my head right away. So I just stick with reds. Mainly the 5 litre casks, as it is real value for money, and helps the tucker go down.
    Buzza.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buzza View Post
    Whites go to my head right away. So I just stick with reds. Mainly the 5 litre casks, as it is real value for money, and helps the tucker go down.
    they can also be fitted to a iv drip quite easily

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    Pull the plug off, half fill with water, replace plug, lay flat in freezer. You will have the perfect floor type ice bag for your esky in a few hours.

    Take the bag out of your next full cask, lay it on the iced bag and have a BBQ. with your cool wine on hand.

    Small kids love a blown up cask, but rinse it out well first, as they may get a whiff of the wine.

    Hang blown up casks in trees to scare away thieving birds.

    Bundy is not wine, and it is expensive. Bundy is good though.

    Bundy liquere (sic) is the best drink in the world, but you cannot be served pints of it, only a thimble full at a time. You also cannot buy it in South Australia.
    Buzza.

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    Thumbs up

    Cask bags can also be inflated and hung in trees to help keep birds away from fruit.

    Enough of the Chateau Cardboard!!

    Found some great cleanskins at !st Choice lately. 2006 Merlot and a 2007 Shiraz. 2007 Cab stacks up very well at the price.

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    Bundy is not wine, and it is expensive. Bundy is good though.

    Bundy liquere (sic) is the best drink in the world, but you cannot be served pints of it, only a thimble full at a time. You also cannot buy it in South Australia. [/quote]

    Then make your own like I do, it is cheap and tastes good too.

    Colin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buzza View Post
    Pull the plug off, half fill with water, replace plug, lay flat in freezer. You will have the perfect floor type ice bag for your esky in a few hours.

    Take the bag out of your next full cask, lay it on the iced bag and have a BBQ. with your cool wine on hand.

    Small kids love a blown up cask, but rinse it out well first, as they may get a whiff of the wine.

    Hang blown up casks in trees to scare away thieving birds.

    Bundy is not wine, and it is expensive. Bundy is good though.

    Bundy liquere (sic) is the best drink in the world, but you cannot be served pints of it, only a thimble full at a time. You also cannot buy it in South Australia.
    Was in Bundaberg last year did the tour of the plant, they said you can now only buy their liqueur there in their tasting room.


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    WOW!

    That makes it a very rare drop then.

    Yes, enough of the Chatoo Carboard, I must see what is on offer in my bottle cabinet for Friday night with the fish and chips. I do like a good bottled red of course, it's just this lousy budget I'm on.
    Buzza.

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    Chateau Cardboard, eeks I can proudly say none has passed my lips in years. I wouldn't even cook with it, since if it is not good enough to pass my lips it is not good enough to go into the cooking.

    As to decent drops well I can say as far as quaffers go, for a red out of South Australia, good old Koonunga Hill shiraz, or Cabernet shiraz or Cab merlot is pretty reasonable for $10-12, or if after a white, there are plenty of NZ Malbourough Sound Sauvignon Blancs on offer at the moment ie. Gunn Estate for around $10-11.

    For my palatte I have a couple of price ranges, the drink now wines for between $10-15 and the ones to go to the cellar from $25 upwards. The '83 Grange is still sleeping, which is being kept good company by some '96 and '98 Bin 28, 128, 407 and 389, as well as a number of decent Premier Cru Bordeauxs etc.

    Mind you I also managed recently to obtain 4 cases of some pretty nice clean skin Rieslings (Joe Cromy, Northern Tas) for $11 from the father of Cromy's wine maker, Luke Dineen. Its drinking really well now but will improve with some more cellaring. Dave

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    Thought i would share a few from the Wild West, you should be able to find them online. Pinelli Wines excellent drop small winery in the Swan Valley, makes a beautiful Port one cheap the other Grand Tawny bit dear but is ambrosia, His whites and reds are made along the Italian line and are quite drinkable when young. Edgecombe brothers another small winery don't know if they are available online his Muscat is verrrrry good. Talijancich and Kosovich wines are top shelf don't matter which ones although the Tally verdelho is extremely highly regarded. Windy Creek is great as well all of these guys have won awards and all that stuff and are quite personable and approachable one thing they share is a passion for the region and the wines. I don't have allegiances to any of them just drink the stuff. Noticed a few comments about the processes in wine making from one of you guys can understand that some of the stuff used can react with some people have a look at Leda Swan Winery know the owners they are passionate about organic wine making and a lot of the stuff they make is free of most of the "nasties". He goes so far as to measure the air quality around his vines, engineer by trade. Anyway hope you get to try some of the West's offerings going up to the Valley on Thursday to do the rounds and stock up

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    Thanks kbad. Am partial to wines from the west and have hade some beauties over the years.
    Good tip on those Italian style wines. Time spent meandering through Tuscany and the Chianti Valley gave me a better appreciation of these styles.

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