Gourmand 🍷🥘

Melbourne is already better foodwise however until now not up to the standards I am accustomed too, but this local Gamay was ok.

Chinese orange wine at the Builders Arms Hotel (Melbourne)

Today we go swimming with salties, after that redback petting.

You don’t need to go to Australia for the food.

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Oysters ‘n Riesling

Kingston Town - home of the big lobster

Local Sangiovese and pizza in McLaren Vale.

Yesterday I made a short visit to Pike & Joyce in the Adelaide Hills, tasted only the pn. Very nice, reminded me of the pn from the Ahr region. 600m altitude. Very nice people as well.

Actually I prefer to stay at home.

Me too but I’m in Adelaide.

16 cheese of varying types

Fat Tuesday cheese haul

By using a specific, fast-ripening starter culture, the cheese develops its characteristic flavor and ripening crystals more quickly, effectively accelerating the process compared to a slower, natural ripening process.

Old Amsterdam is aged for approximately eight months, which is shorter than the usual 10-12 months for traditional aged cheese.

It has undergone accelerated aging.

Enjoying the Q-suite

First world problems: when you order a glass of wine in Qatar Business and it has cork taint.

Ok but their Haguenau and Muehlforst cuvées are nicer.

A lynx?

De tranen schieten in me hol

Het zweet staat op me voorhuid.

This one is also on my home’s permanent stock list.
From the area around Montpellier. GSM-blend.

Quite a favorite the last 6 months and well under 10€.

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For a change a Portuguese white wine at Restaurant Vintages in Girona. Both are recommended.

According to Rabbi Chaim Simons of the Orthodox Union, kosher casu martzu can be produced provided that all ingredients are kosher, the rennet comes from a kosher animal slaughtered in accordance with the laws of shechita, and that the cheese is "gevinat Yisrael" (made under Jewish supervision).

Is it permissable to being casu martzu to Australia?

Yessssss