Another interesting article in the Big Paper

I find it quite interesting that Australia (very broadly speaking) has, over the last 50 years, had it's quality wines driven predominantly by the large company's (Penfolds, Yalumba, Wynns etc.) This has created a flow on effect into smaller producers who are now the ones driving the quality (Kalleske, Torbreck, Rusden, Greenock Creek, Giaconda, Kilkanoon etc.) Whilst the large producers are concentrating more on producing high volumes of clean, simple wines which to most people outside this country represent the Australian wine industry.

Hi Andrew,

We know that the wine we get from Austrailia is the Coca Cola of wine. Large mass produced bottlings.

For the people that drink if everyday however it is as good a wine for the money that can be found. We really have nothing to compete in that price/quality range here.

The beginnings might be similar to Gallo, Taylor, Seghasio wines that were the jug producers in the USA. Gallo and Taylor (Now Constellation) are the largest in the business.

It Austrailia wants to upgrade their selection and concentrate on qulaity wines at better than Napa pricing...they can.

Salut/Hi Tom S,

le/on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 05:37:26 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Who? I don't know anyone called Jacqui.

My wife "Jacquie" (note spelling well) is deaf and nearly blind without her glasses, so she simply takes off her prostheses and doesn't notice me.

My dictionary knows only "prosthesis"?

M.

Plural Michael, plural.

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

Ooops - of course. I should have taken the real dictionary and not rely on dict.leo.org, which normally is quite reliable.

M.

Salut/Hi Michael Pronay,

le/on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:54:31 +0200, tu disais/you said:-

tsk, bad dictionary, change the dictionary.

Thesis - Theses, moris - mores.

petard - hoist.

Grin!

Moris? None of my dictionaries gives any singular for "mores." It's used in English only in the plural, but the Latin singular was "mos," not "moris."

And when you have low moral standards, I think that is known in latin as Morris Minor

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

Salut/Hi Ken Blake,

le/on Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:25:27 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

Grin!! the bitter bite! I was thinking of "memento moris".

LOL!

Ian, I'm less sure of myself this time, but isn't that "memento mori"?

It is. It means, "I cannot remember where I parked it"

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

LOL! Again!

I'm replying to an old post of my own, but I just bought a bottle of Bonny Doon Ca' del Solo today. It has a screw cap and it comes with a little neck tag which reads "Memento Torqui." Underneath it says "Remember to screw."

Not a bad set of instructions. Now, get your mind out of the gutter, or the bedroom, or where-ever! What I mean is that I almost ruined a foil-cutter, when I went to work on a stelvin cap, not realizing that it was not just the capsule!!!!!!!! Had THAT bottle had the caveat, I would still have my favorite foil-cutter. After a few dozen turns, I took a good look, with my reading glasses, and LO, a stelvin. Randall is ahead of the curve here, as I am SURE that that is why he put the little neck tag on the bottle. ;-}

Hunt

I had a similar experience a while back. It was my first tangle with a bottle with a stelvin closure. Not looking carefully and not realizing there was anyything special about, I removed the top of the capsule with my screwpull foil cutter. It came off easily and neatly. Then, as I was about to remove the cork with my screwpull corkscrew, I did a doubletake, aghast--they forgot to put a cork in the bottle!

"Ken Blake" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

At last I have discovered a problem with the screw closure. While flying to Amsterdam 2 weeks ago the guy in the seat next to me was having trouble opening his wine bottle. It seems that the screw part was turning but the part that is supposed to give way didn't and we had a mini bottle of wine which would not divest itself of its top. Thankfully the FA provided another bottle and the day was saved.