Salut/Hi Matt S >,

le/on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:52:32 +1100, tu disais/you said:-

>On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:31:54 +0100, Ian Hoare >
>wrote:

>> If you
>>asked 100 Australian wine drinkers what Tokay was, I'd be surprised if one
>>single person knew that it was Hungarian. I don't think ANY real Tokaji Aszu
>>is sold there, and the Australian consumer is the poorer for it.
>
>An assumption on your behalf Ian that is totally inaccurate. I have
>stocked Tokaji Aszu (both 4 & 5 Puttonyos) for a number of years, and
>the fact I have sold it suggests I am not alone in understanding what
>Tokaji is, and where it hails from... :>)

I must say I'm surprised, because when I went there, I asked quite a few
people - in wineries and outside them and no one had heard of or tasted it.
But if that's changed I'm delighted. But to how many people hcan you say you
sold it - compared to the number of bottles of Tokay? OI'm curious, which
make do you sell. Tell all.


>since the French insist on nuclear testing in our backyard, I doubt
>more than 1 in 100 folks would WANT to drink French wine.

err... that WAS about 14 years ago, you know. And I might point out that
French Polynesia isn't exactly YOUR back yard, even though Australia's fury
might have led one to think so, When in fact it was all a storm in a tea
cup, designed to whip up anti-French sentiment and sell Oz wine. Not dumb -
which is most certainly what Chirac was, when he fell into Mitterand's trap.