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It’s a light switch – obviously!

Well that’s what the web stats says! I personally think they could be errors, maybe someone looking for www.lonnie.com or www.lonnies.com (nice paper folks!) or maybe someone looking for info on Sheriff Lonnie Swift - but I can assure you, I’m not a Sheriff! Sorry folks. Although, the last one is “interesting”… if you are into animal mutilations.

That reminds me, a guy here at work has an interesting t-shirt. Anyone got a cool t-shirt slogan to share? There are too many crap t-shirts out there, it’s time to change the tide!

Is appointment the opposite of disappointment?

Those of you who know me (not meaning to get philosophical) know that I tend to be a wine snob (I can hear Dan saying “and a coffee snob, and a tea snob, and a ….”)

HOWEVER, as I’m winding up my cellar, I’ve started buying table wines to drink now – oh the horror!!  I have therefore started tasting Aussie wines below $10.  I think our market for wines under $10 is very impressive. I’ve heard from Julian (the partner of a co-worker) that he predicts that due to the drought our lower end market will not be as affordable in the coming years.  Julian is using this as an excuse to justify a world-war-three like buy-up.  Good for him! I on the other hand am trying to decrease the size of my cellar in the off chance that someone from a foreign country will employ me.

Enough of that!  Back to the wine! Read more…

One word answers this question. No.

BUT both Dave and James had to try it.

I was browsing the Nobel Prize web page when I found this little gem.

Give it a go, it’s educational and fun…

I’ve been sorting through photos this weekend, doing a big back-up. I saw this pic from Wilsons Prom when we were down there around this time last year.

I asked Kate what other categories I should have and we managed to come up with “wine”.

I agreed, thinking that I could now drink more wines for “research” purposes.  Can’t argue with that eh?

So the idea of this category is to review wines – as quick as I can drink em!  Hopefully this will be helpful for those of you who want to buy Australian wines, but don’t want to buy that cheap crap that we make/export (yellow tail ring a bell??).  In stead, I hope to review good wine, cheap and expensive!

Tonights drop was Rouge Homme 2004 Linestone Coast Cabernet Merlot.

Nice and smooth.  I usually find that Cab/Merlots are easy drinking though, so it’s not particularly surprising!  This bottle will go well with pretty much anything with a reasonable strong flavor.  It says it’s spent time in American and French Oak – which screams to me “made cheap” – we didn’t have enough of either so we mixed it!  But people who know say that this sort of mixing brings out a variety of flavors… you make the decision!

For $9.50 it’s a good everyday drinker.  It’s also under a screw cap so you can take it anywhere.

Enjoy!

(Sorry Chris, can’t find it in the UK – says it’s not available)

I found this photo that Kate took while I was working on my car.  You can see the gearbox near my right shoulder and the unhappy look – it all suggests I hadn’t figured out the problem at this stage…