Would you forget a $3000 bottle of wine?

[Ducatiboy stu]

Bet he's pissed at getting caught out over a "crap" bottle of wine.

 

[shaunous]

Bet he's pissed at getting caught out over a "crap" bottle of wine.

I would be.

Dont get me wrong, for the average aussie with no wine sense, and obviously hasnt got money to spend on plonk like that, it seems ridiculous, but there would be TV/Movie stars, Musicians, and the general rich who would be laughing at this story, with quotes like "I piss out more dollars worth of Liquor in 10mins than kunt lost his job over"

Well, i'd be saying that if I were rich, I can only hope

 

[MastersBrewery]

I worked "In the Industry" a while back for quite a few years, in that time I was lucky enough to be sent on a wine course and had the chance to have a taste of a $600 "Grange" it was directly after lunch and we were asked to price the wine purely on what we had tasted ( blind tasting) most quoted a price around the $60-$100 I said $500, the plum explosion in the mouth was a dead give away, and something I'll never forget, now if I could just find my glass of beer all would be good with the world

 

[Jaded and Bitter]

Its so hard to remember every bribe.

He he... got six grange shiraz vines in the backyard, yep - cuttings from the grange vineyard.

 

[shaunous]

Its so hard to remember every bribe.

He he... got six grange shiraz vines in the backyard, yep - cuttings from the grange vineyard.

Is that **** legal???

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

You would laughif he got sent a carton of VB...

 

[verysupple]

Its so hard to remember every bribe.

He he... got six grange shiraz vines in the backyard, yep - cuttings from the grange vineyard.

Cool story, bro. But Grange isn't always single vinyard. Certain vintages may be single vinyard, but each vintage may come from a different vinyard. So which vinyard did you "obtain" them from?

 

[Bribie G]

I once drank a magnum of Eisenbahn Lust Beer and it made me very drunk.

 

[geneabovill]

My Antonia was $50 a bottle from memory.. I tried so many fancy beers that night. 0.0

 

[Greg.L]

Cool story, bro. But Grange isn't always single vinyard. Certain vintages may be single vinyard, but each vintage may come from a different vinyard. So which vinyard did you "obtain" them from?

Then there's the fact that the vines Grange comes from are very old, some over 100 years, and the particular climate where it is grown. Six cuttings in your backyard won't taste much like grange, but it's still worth doing so long as you learn about diseases and which sprays to use.

 

[booargy]

liberals are cheap to buy because they are there to feather the nest of business.
Labor are a bit more expensive because you have to give them a cut.
Therefore if you want to rip the joint off Liberal is the first choice.

 

[warra48]

I was given some Grange when I retired, among other gifts. No way would I forget that, even though I've drunk a number of them over the years. However, mrs warra claims I can remember the details of every bottle of wine I've ever drunk. She's probably right.

My Grange and a number of other precious bottles were very very carefully moved by myself, as I didn't trust them to the removalists who delivered our stuff this morning to our new address in Corlette.
They only managed to smash 3 of the 19 cases of wine from my cellar, fortunately the more recent stuff, so I seem to have saved my stash of 1990s vintages.
Now comes the battle to get some compensation from them.

 

[DU99]

i work for the state goverment and anything over certain $$ Value as a gift must be declared..

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

My Uncle...ret...was 2nd in charge of the XXX liqour lic commision when he retired...shall not say what year for obvious reasons...

Needles to say...his "mud" room is filled with some rather nice vino.

But,as he has allways stated to me,.he was given all manor of wines. He, as he saw it, was his public duty as a public servant, was to declare what he was given. He still has distain for the politicians he had to work with that did nothing but milk the system and accept "gifts" and then work on formulating basically corrupt legislation


He hates the liberal party to this day because they enacted bills in parliament to favour party donors who had the money to change the way things are run & done

 

[philmud]

It doesn't matter how many bottles of '59 Grange Barry received as gifts, they should have all been declared - the bloke's full of ****.

 

[spog]

I was given a bottle of wine 26years ago when our first was born,how's that for memory....actually I must give it to him as I don't drink wine.....nah **** him I will leave it to him in my will I am sure it's worth fcuk all anyway.
Cheers....spog....

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

It doesn't matter how many bottles of '59 Grange Barry received as gifts, they should have all been declared - the bloke's full of ****.

There is abit more to Barry's story.

He basically got stuck into the ICAC commonissioner on the stand...up until **** started going against him. That thank you letter ****** him. And he knew it.

 

[shaunous]

Then there's the fact that the vines Grange comes from are very old, some over 100 years, and the particular climate where it is grown. Six cuttings in your backyard won't taste much like grange, but it's still worth doing so long as you learn about diseases and which sprays to use.

They will somewhat taste like Grange as far as the fruit grow, no Peter Gago isnt turning his grapes into wine, yes the 'terroir' will be different, but he has technically cloned a wine grape.

 

[geneabovill]

OT: Corlette as in Port Stephens?

 

[Scooby Tha Newbie]

Good on him,16 years if corrupt government back street deals and generally fu?(ing up nsw. One of the most honourable things seen in Australian politics in a long time.
He could have weathered the storm it was a gift ($3000 wasn't disclosed as the amount paid for the wine) lied his way though it np. But alas that's the Labor way. 100's of millions was raped from Nsw by Labor yet none has paid the price.
Many Labor minions have been shown to be corrupted yet no one seems to mind.
GOOD FOR YOU BARRY,and best of luck. You are a diamond amongst the coal.

Not nearly as expensive as $3000.