A bit of cheer
Have you heard …
While you all hunker down for the upcoming Winter months, why not be creative with your time, while supporting the wine industry.
Perfect piece of outdoor furniture
@MIwoodworks, Carpenter
If pouring a glass of wine seems like hard work – then you need to buy one of these amazing wine chairs.
Matt Thompson from Detroit loves to put his woodworking skills to good use. In 2017, the Michigan man built a lawn chair that delivers beers via a chute.
Then in 2018, Thompson Woodworks did it again, this time with a lawn chair that pours glasses of wine with the pull of a lever.
Go to see it in action and in its full glory.
Christmas Gift Ideas for the Wine Lovers
Please remember those people overseas, especially in the UK, who still have lorry driver shortages – and supply shortages! By the way, this has led to goods being moved by train [back to the future!]
Have you heard – Oct 21
Party humour
My wife hosted a party for many of our old friends, some of whom we hadn’t seen for years.
Everyone was encouraged to bring their children and grandchildren along as well.
All throughout dinner, Emma, my wife’s best friend’s four-year-old granddaughter kept staring at me. This beautiful little girl could hardly eat her food for staring at me.
I checked my shirt for spots, felt my face for food and patted my hair in place, but nothing stopped her from staring at me.
Finally, I asked her, “Emma, why are you staring at me so?”
Everyone at the table had noticed her behaviour also, and the table went quiet, waiting for her response.
Little Emma said, “I just wanna see how you drink like a fish.”
Prohibition warning in the US
Check out the label on the wine box…
Brush up on your wine knowledge – April 2021
Pause for a moment and ask yourself.
What region grew the most wine in NZ last year, 2020?
Pat yourself on the back if you said Marlborough. But do you know what per cent of the total 2020 NZ harvest their 343,036 tonnes represent?
What about the next regions? I was amazed just how weighted the top 3 regions were of the total harvest.
Thanks to NZWine.com for the infographic.
See more of the 2020 NZ vintage statistics.
Our kind of cycling!
New Release whine – you need to go look for this
Wine Bottle Trivia . . .
Bocksbeutel – An 18th-century flat flask from Franconia in Germany and Styria in Austria, still popular in these regions although rarely seen in the export markets. Its design is said to be copied from a goat’s scrotum.
Bouteille – the French word for bottle, of which there are over 50 known shapes and sizes in France alone.
Fassle – a German wine vessel, sometimes made of leather, from which the contents are squirted into the mouth. Now used only at festivals and other celebrations.
Flagon – a wine flagon is usually made of green glass, unlike the better-known brown ones for beer or cider. It is a large, flattish bottle often used in New World countries to hold inexpensive wine.
Fiasco – many wine guides simply describe fiasco as an Italian bottle or flask,
sometimes contained in a straw basket. Here’s how it came by the name . . . When the Etruscans began to develop glass production in the 4th century BC, they discovered that it was possible to blow a bottle in the shape of a round bubble. However, when the buddle cooled and they tried to stand it upright, it fell over – it was a fiasco, a failure. To correct the problem, the asked their women to weave flat straw bases into which the bottle was inserted. The fiasco can still be seen in Chianti and Orvieto.
Fillette – a slim half-bottle which is still widely found in the Loire Valley.
Flute d’Alsace – a tall, slender bottle used for Alsace wine.
Jug – a large bottle with a handle. It measures one US gallon and usually contains pasteurised wine of a basic quality, a favourite purchase of President Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas.
Porron – a Spanish flask with an extended neck or spout, often made of kid leather or wood. It is popular in the Basque region and regularly seen on sporting occasions when it facilitates the swift consumption of wine.
Pot – also known as le pot de Beaujolais, this is a half-litre, gently curved bottle still found in restaurants. Piat, the prominent Beaujolais negociants, have their own 75cl (centilitre) version.
Have you heard … what’s on the streets
WOW! Just imagine these on the streets on the way to work, or the way
home
And of course, your Cellar Club Committee members have to go to some
lengths at times in respect of deep research for you
