wine discussion, page-15

Cheers RNF

Plenty of us enjoy a wine or two and given how many diffrent types there is there should be plenty to discuss.

If you a partial to a sherry you love the pedro xemines I mention, not cheap but it is enjoyed in small quanties. The best ones are from an are spain famous for it.

I do enjoy a nice crisp white wine in summer and with seafood. Picking a nice white is far less riskier than reds, new zealand produces good white wines.

One white wine type that became unfashionable is reasling but a few years ago I got to try the Howard park (Denmark southern WA) reasling and that was a stand out.

garyboat, agree on the big commercial producers but not sure about the problem rats, snakes and possums. As far as I know the harvester just shakes the grapes off the vine.

Yes small wineries are the go, some are not easy to find but well worth it. Here in WA there is some nice little vineyards quite close to Perth in Midland (20 mins from CBD), the soils are simular to terra rossa.

Kingpins, some wines are made for drinking sooner rather than later and have a limited cellar life while others a made for longer cellering. Oftern on better wines they will they will state the approximate cellaring time.

Some times a wine maker will sell of a vintage cheap if they think it has reach a peak and may spoil if kept longer. The way to spot these is that they are around 4-5 years old, I suspect some of the bigger wine makers some times mix them in with more recent vintages. I have oftern look them like this and will pull bottles off the shelf to find more. No piont cellaring these :-)

Not sure about the tax thing but don't see why a small producer would take that into the equation.