(23-07-2011, 09:51 AM)Sweder Wrote: OK, way off topic but I just saw this on a friend's FB site.
I can appreciate Aussies not wanting to share their best wine but really, this is just churlish.
Well, I suspect this is a joke (where I say "joke", read "scam"). With the wine glut here getting gluttier, and the strong A$ killing exports, anyone trying to sell $200-per-bottle wines needs serious media exposure. Mollydooker is one of those wineries that no-one in Australia has ever heard of and who presumably makes their money (or used to) selling wines to stupidly rich Americans on the basis of one or two positive Robert Parker reviews. You certainly don't see their wines in any wine store I ever venture into (which is most of them I'm embarrassed to say).
Having said that, there are some excellent wineries who export 100% of their product, so I could be wrong.
Come to think of it, we export a lot of our produce... Rolf Harris, Kylie Minogue, Rupert Murdoch... can anyone see a pattern here?
