Brian Fletcher

@ianfarquhar.bsky.social
Looks like the message didn't reach the troops

.https://www.deloitte.com/au/en/about/people/profiles.elea-wurth+9e1fea2e.html

Note how the ground crew keep one hand on the leading edge....

Not your RWT but CWT...

This is like the city of Broken Hill - a town built on mine tailings or mine tailings dumped on a town. This is wine Jim, but not as we know it. A strange, not unpleasant diversion, somewhere between a Rose and a sherry with alcohol to help. Fortified or adjusted, old oak or concrete. Terroir? No.

Well, I suppose if they screw their faces like they just tucked a lemon l, they could be right.

Start by weaing a hat.

As is local smoke taint.

Brown. Thin. Gone.

Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.

This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.

Shelf talker for a Wayne Gretzky #wine in a Toronto LCBO describes it as "acrid and treasony."

"This mediocre Chardonnay reeks of betrayal. Expect hints of moral rot, fermented in the casks of vast wealth. Pairs with barbecued raccoon." Lay down with dogs and you get fleas. #Winesky #TheGreatOnce

Back to the future.....

The old argument. Wine is good because the vines are old etc. A great site produces good fruit year in, year out but that doesn't mean it's always great, rather than consistently good. I've seen plenty of clapped out old vineyards that well, never made the grade. Darwin abides!

Limoncello on a roll. Self indulgent petnat makers need to reinvent themselves.

He made a bundle!

Wolf Blass "Wolf Blass wines are known for their quality, consistency, and character. The winery's founder, Wolfgang Blass, established the motto "quality, character, consistency". The winery's winemakers strive to deliver great value for money across their entire portfolio."

Worth a read
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...

Indeed, however our Murdoch press....

Same playbook with the recent bushfires in Australia - blame everyone, arson etc, not climate change.

What does UK sparkling do with c-grade?

They used to keep "marker wines" in the stacks- the base wine of the tirage but they were invariably rooted.

Still going, just enough pressure (gas)to keep it balanced at 30g/l sugar. Very soft and mature, as in not "still got some fruit".

Not a bad track record.

Ever consistent.

Uber tomorrow morning to the airport. Don't mention the cricket!

From sleuthing Brian Miller...I think "Champalia" works well and rolls of the tongue-"Sheralia", not so much. You can understand why they were met with "cordial approval" by the French becasue they were rubbish.