Julia Altshuler > wrote in
:

> pennyaline wrote:
>
>> So how does the average lesson go? "I'm sorry, ma'am, but you want a
>> Beaujolais, and that means you don't know enough about wine to
>> distinguish Burgundy from plonk. What you really want is one of the
>> "blushes"... perhaps something in a box?"
>
>
> Yeah, that's pretty much it, except instead of recommending plonk from
> a box, we recommend a Wolfer Gruber riesling or the Stonegate cabernet
> or the Artesa pinot noir, whatever is the salesclerk's favorite du
> jour.

Just curious here, as I know nothing much more about wine than that it's
made from grapes <g>. I do sometimes read the wine columns in the Good
Living section of the Sydney Morning Herald, and other papers, and I
have read that there are some quite decent wines sold in casks here.

Most references I've seen to cask wine in RFC, however, have been
derogatory. Are there no decent cask wines available in the US?

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia - the country in which the wine cask was
invented - how's that for a claim to fame <g>.