This is good news for hand-to-hand combat enthusiasts, too.

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/huh?

Huh? Why would they not pick their grapes? Wine can be stored, can't they?

guess I need to move to Australia.

That's cool, about like France.

Well, wine isn't cheaper by the liter, but big bottles of water cost more than some bottles of wine. And the cheap wine there is usually decent.

/"Oh, fancy, you're springing for the four euro bottle of wine."

You'd think fresh water would be cheap, what with their proximity to the snow-capped mountains of the Alps.

moralpanic: Huh? Why would they not pick their grapes? Wine can be stored, can't they?

After you pick the grapes, there is a cost involved with processing the grapes into wine. If the wine will sell for less than the processing cost, let it rot. You lose less money.

If the grapes were good for fresh eating and the vinyards were easily accessible from an inhabited area, it would be cheaper to let folks come and pick what they wanted for pennies a pound.

Mr. Right: moralpanic: Huh? Why would they not pick their grapes? Wine can be stored, can't they?

After you pick the grapes, there is a cost involved with processing the grapes into wine. If the wine will sell for less than the processing cost, let it rot. You lose less money.


Um why couldn't they store it for next year or the year after? And they can plan ahead and not waste so much resources on the next year crop.

moralpanic: Mr. Right: moralpanic:

Um why couldn't they store it for next year or the year after? And they can plan ahead and not waste so much resources on the next year crop.

They have a glut. It makes no sense to incur costs now that they will not be able to recover for another year or 2. Any intelligent business person would have been able to predict that, with the overplanting that has been going on for years in Australia and elsewhere, the price of wine would reach that tipping point and prices would plummet. This is known as cutting your losses. To incur additional production cost on a gamble that some day, a couple years from now, there MIGHT MAYBE be a better price for the product is a gamble that no one with any business acumen would take.

Unless they destroy the vines, if the price recovers next year, they will have another crop next year. So it makes no sense to spend money that they will, in all liklihood, never be able to recover.

You know who else was Australian and didn't drink wine?

not bad for $5.99

Major wine retailer Dan Murphy's is currently selling cleanskins for $1.99 a bottle - cheaper than some bottled water - due to the oversupply crisis that has led to some vineyard owners leaving grapes to wither on the vine.

I love submitards. :)

Cheap wine and a three day growth. C'mon.

/obscure?

Wine was cheaper than coca-cola in France when I lived there, and we used to drink some Austrian stuff called "Old Dragon Bite" which was pretty bad---but very cheap.

Yay !
2 buck chuck in Au!

Isn't water the main ingrediant in all beverages?

So, if someone were to begin turning wine into water they could make a killing?

Antichrist Springs (tm) - It's got electrolytes!

Cheap, and it's got a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

I see many here don't understand that plonk does not age well.

Arkanaut: You'd think fresh water would be cheap, what with their proximity to the snow-capped mountains of the Alps.

Giggle.

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favorably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule. Eight 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 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 & Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, 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 Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wagga Wagga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

/oblig?

who drinks water anyway?

This has been going on in Europe for years.

If I'm not mistaken, the governments have subsidized the production of wine by buying the wine and turning it into ethanol fuel. It would seem easier to convert the grapes directly into ethanol, but I don't understand the politics of the situation.

Jay Dee: who drinks water anyway?

Yeah. Do you know what fish do in water?

vertiaset: If they have a glut on wine right now ... they could ... ummm ... put some in a cellar and you know AGE IT.

you'd be surprised how few wines actually improve with cellaring... good way to make vinegar though...

Arkanaut: You'd think fresh water would be cheap, what with their proximity to the snow-capped mountains of the Alps.

Methinks you might be confused.

Accent: Isn't water the main ingrediant in all beverages?

Not 151 Rum.

Wine? Don't you mean beeeeeerrr?

"I never drink water---fish f*ck in it."

---------- W.C. FIELDS

i remember after katrina when this happened to miller light. they had so much of it that couldn't be distributed to the louisiana market that it all got dumped in florida and was selling for 5$ a case.

i know, it's miller light - but for 5$ a case i'd drink lighter fluid and piss in a can

SundayServices: Cheap wine and a three day growth. C'mon.

/obscure?

Ita's on TV.

drunkjournal: i know, it's miller light - but for 5$ a case i'd drink [...] piss in a can
I've got news for you...

/Miller Light is farking disgusting. No, I'm not a beer snob, it's just awful.

SundayServices: Cheap wine and a three day growth. C'mon.

/obscure?



/nothing is obscure on FARK
//and certainly not that

oops,
forgot to say

/link is hot
//chisel isn't

zez: not bad for $5.99

heyyy that comes from where I come from also.

It's nice living in a wine region.

What a pity we have water coming out of the taps too.

zamboni: A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favorably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule. Eight 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 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 & Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, 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 Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wagga Wagga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

/oblig?

Is your name Bruce??

zamboni:
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in and the message is "beware".

Came for this.

/leaving happy

As far as cheap wines go, Australian wine is pretty good. I'm more of a beer drinker myself, but it's nice to be able to pick up a quaffable bottle of something cheap.

// Quaffable, but not transcendent.

andrewhy: As far as cheap wines go, Australian wine is pretty good. I'm more of a beer drinker myself, but it's nice to be able to pick up a quaffable bottle of something cheap.


We are lucky in Australia in that there is generally a culture in the wine industry of NOT bottling the truly nasty shiat. That goes in casks. We call it goon:

Goon.

Basically anything you find in a bottle will be at least passable plonk, and not the uber nasty stuff that tastes like alcohol-laced grape juice.

I'm not sure about the US, but I know in Europe and other parts of the World they bottle anything. At least here "bottled = at least passable", so we're lucky that way.

Treetop1000: zamboni: A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favorably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule. Eight 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 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 & Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, 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 Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wagga Wagga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

/oblig?

Is your name Bruce??

No, it's Michael (Baldwin)!