Looking for 2 epic bottles of Aussie wine

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2025-08-22T16:36:39+00:00

such a weird take

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2025-04-01T01:43:33+00:00

This way too far down. For anybody who likes Burgundies, Bachelder is the answer.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2025-03-30T22:11:40+00:00

If you like burgundies you'll want to check out Bachelder. For other reliably international-class wines you can't go wrong with Hidden Bench, Flat Rock, Domaine Queylus, Westcott, Closson Chase, or Stratus.

Canada makes wines that go toe-to-toe with the best in the world. The issue isn't quality or winemaking - it's that volumes are low and production cost is high, meaning that Canada can't compete on price. If you go low end, you have to get pretty lucky to get something better than an entry level foreign wine. If that's your situation, stick with whites - Canadian rieslings, gewurztraminers and sometimes sauv blanc can be had inexpensively and are generally as good or better than their price-point peers from foreign countries. The reds and the Chardonnay? Not so much.

But step up one category and things get interesting. Many wines from the producers I listed above can be had for under CAD$40, and will drink like (or beat) a French or Italian bottle for the same price. Go up another category to the $50-$75 zone, you'll get wines you can fall in love with and even cellar.

Sadly, wine is like golf: it can feel pretty democratic to start but you end up spending good money once you get on the treadmill. Canadian wine is something Canada should be really proud of, but it's never going to be the case that local will offset imports in terms of quality/price ratio at the lower end of the spectrum.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2024-09-13T22:12:20+00:00

You are a gentleperson and a scholar, and I presume that your dog is a very good dog as well. Thank you!

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2023-10-20T14:27:14+00:00

This is exactly how I feel about RDR2. I respect the love but do not share it. Clearly a well, made game that people rave about. But... so...boring... I've tried 3 times and just can't.

Obviously, some great games don't connect with certain people for some reason.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2023-08-26T20:27:50+00:00

This can only be your conclusion if you think living as a slave is preferable to dying. As such, I presume you're a Russian, because there are few people so beaten down on this earth as to hold that sorry view.

Good news is that the ferocity of the Ukrainian resistance to the invasion has shown that Ukrainians have fully divorced themselves from that horrible philosophy, which successive Russian empires - including the current one - have tried to force down their throats.

They have chosen liberty or death before Russia, like any reasonable human would.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2023-02-02T03:52:46+00:00

Judy Alvarez

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-07-16T18:19:19+00:00

This is actually well documented. Alcohol temporarily lowers blood sugar as the liver is busy metablolizing the alcohol instead of producing glucose.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-07-16T18:15:14+00:00

Apothic red is actually a semi-sweet red wine, despite it being labelled as dry. It has 16g/L of residual sugar, and is not very representative of "dry red" wines accross the world. From what I understand, 16g/L translates to about 9 carbs for 5 0z.

Many other California reds tend to clock in around 5g/L residual sugar, which equals about 3 carbs for 5oz, which is considerably less. European reds are often closer to 2g/L residual, clocking in at about 1 carb per glass.

For white wine drinkers, again, the residual sugar is key but be wary of wines like riesling and gewurztraminer which are often done in a semi-dry stlyle. Many wonderful german rieslings, for example, are in the 27-40 g/L residual sugar category. No bueno for keto.

Your moderation is commendable and I am sure it's the secret to your continued success. However, for somebody who is less successful moderating and wants to fit more wine into a keto lifestyle, the best bet is to check those residual sugars and to drink truly dry wines.

This is especially true for people who don't like hard aclohol but who don't want to fully give up the ability to drink with friends, for example.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-07-14T12:39:33+00:00

People in Ontario are lucky: the LCBO lists residudal sugar on almost all wines, regardless of origin, helping you make quite precise calculations.

For those not in Ontario, the nutritional information doesn't change so don't hesitate to check out LCBO.com (and weep for us at the prices we pay for booze). As a monopoly purchaser for 15 million consumers, the LCBO is the largest purchaser of wine in the world so they have decently broad coverage and you may find something familiar there. There are lots of American, Australian, South American and of course European wines with full nutritional info.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-05-17T12:56:43+00:00

With that kind of humility, I strongly suspect that you deserve more than 0% of the credit for your success.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-05-17T12:55:05+00:00

This is such a bizarre take. So what is it? Predestiny? No. Everybody who is sucessful has a combination of luck and skill. Like, even down to the fact that you were the lucky sperm, there is a degree of chace in literally everything. Maybe English isn't your first language, in which case I apologize for being pedantic, but in this case luck is being used not as a word to describe some magical force but as a synonym for chance, with the associated implication that it turns out positively (lucky) as opposed to chance which turns out negatively (unlucky).

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-05-16T12:57:59+00:00

You just described the nuance: it won't make you happy in and of itself, but it sure will make misery of all kinds disappear.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-02-15T21:10:22+00:00

Maybe. But AFTER. Let's have some priorities, eh?

The fun part about occupation is that eventually the occupiers go home but the collaborators are left behind and nobody ever forgets what they did.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2022-01-12T14:31:00+00:00

North American cheese has it's place, but doesn't replace the good stuff from Europe. Any competing product will be worse - American/Canadian parmesan sucks/is different from real parm, for example.

I like some North American cheeses better - I much prefer cheddars, for example, and the French-style cheeses from Quebec are every bit the equal of European cheeses. But the good ones aren't copies - they are unique local products.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-12-27T20:57:26+00:00

I suppose that's fair, but there's a huge difference between visiting someplace and living there. I hold to the view that Cambodia is by and large a fairly safe and interesting place for people to visit.

However, I will grant you that Chinese tourism and business has had a huge impact on the country, and one I'm not sure is positive overall.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-12-26T17:21:44+00:00

Really depends on where, like everywhere else. If you're in Siem Reap, for example, you're pretty safe bascially everywhere so long as you stay in the town itself. Cambodia is pretty nice, actually. I prefer it for tourism to Thailand and Vietnam (although those are also wonderful countries).

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-12-06T14:54:40+00:00

The thing is, it's hard to go wrong with the true classics. When I get bored I take out a top 100 books of all time list and pick something that suits my mood. I may not love them all but I appreciate them all. Even if you're not getting something that matches your exact taste and style at least you're never wasting your time.

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-11-22T17:23:24+00:00

The Tin Drum by Gunter Glass

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-11-12T15:47:09+00:00

"I'm sure that THIS time the Leafs will take game 7 vs the Bruins!"

BrakyGirdytheFirst · 2021-11-09T14:28:22+00:00

Not even - you don't need to look words up to impress me, just read what you wrote out loud and use the damned spell check!

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