Peter Moylan wrote:
[...]
> The wine gave me problems, though. A good thing about Australian wine is
> that even the cheap stuff is drinkable, provided that you avoid the real
> horse **** at the bottom of the scale. Good French wine is remarkably
> good, as we all know, but bad French wine is abominably bad, and you
> need some expertise or local knowledge to know what to avoid. I never
> had bad wine at a restaurant, but I had some bloody awful stuff from the
> supermarket. It cleaned out my drains good and proper.

Really vile French wine is much rarer since the Australian wine-makers
moved in. French producers at the low end hadn't caught on to modern
commercial methods (these have their own drawbacks, of course).

--
Mike.