You may want to rethink that one
Posted on 09/25/2007 2:08:29 AM PDT by Dundee
AUSTRALIA's 2008 wine grape vintage could drop by more than half because of drought.
The vintage is likely to be 800,000 to 1.3 million tonnes, down from a 1.9 million tonne average, industry groups say...
Hardest hit would be Victoria's Murray Valley and South Australia's Riverland regions, where high reliability water allocations are 10 per cent and 16 per cent of full allocations respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
This is my fantasy: To be given immortality and to be placed in the woods of New England surrounded by huge warehouses containing every single book ever written, every piece of music ever recorded and every single bottle of wine ever produced.
I will not be allowed to leave that area until every single book is read, every piece of music is listened to and every single bottle of wine is consumed. I wonder which would run out first, the books, the music or the wine.
Probably the wine. I'm a slow reader and I have to listen to a lot of music several times before I "get it."
So if I limit myself to three bottles of wine per day, I'm thinking this process would take millions of years.
My wife and I would take weekend trips throughout New England in our corvette convertible; tasting wine and enjoying life. Those were the days...
Texas has the opposite problem. We had to much rain to the point that grapes are rotting on the vines. The 2007 crop is going to be down considerable. They showed this one vineyard that had a couple of feet of standing water. LOL! I wonder what this will do to the 2006 prices.
Stock up on Yellow Tail now, folks.
Just when I developed a taste for Shiraz.
Crikey!
Great Googly Moogly!
Were New Zealand wines similarly affected?
Not sure I can make it through the day now.
You all realize that less water means smaller grapes and better wine right? It’s the driest years that are the “good years”.
"Black Stump Bordeaux" is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good "Sydney Syrup" can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.
"Chateau Bleu", too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.
"Old Smokey, 1968" has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian wino society thouroughly recommends a 1970 "Coq du Rod Laver", which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: 8 bottles of this, and you're really finished -- at the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is "Perth Pink". This is a bottle with a message in it, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Another good fighting wine is "Melbourne Old-and-Yellow", which is particularly heavy, and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.
Quite the reverse is true of "Chateau Chunder", which is an Appelachian controle, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation -- a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.
Real emetic fans will also go for a "Hobart Muddy", and a prize winning "Cuvée Reserve Chateau Bottled Nuit San Wagga Wagga", which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.
[from the 1972 album Monty Python's Previous Record]
Yellow Tail?
Yuck. Swill.
You call THAT music?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.