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First Leaves
Who
could resist the bright yellow of the canola in the background? It's
been so wet in Coonawarra lately you could bog a frog. Great for crops,
water table and umbrella salesmen everywhere.
Cars in
the cellar door
8
months on, and traffic is getting a little congested in the cellar
door at the moment, with a lot of changing gears & honking horns. So
watch your feet if your heading in, although since it's foot
powered, reverse is all that Lucy's mastered.
Flintstones car: shifting gears, with the legs doing all the work...
New Toof...
Broome:
The crazy-kicking pool swimmer
Wine
Fact:
Australians are the world’s biggest English-speaking wine drinkers,
consuming 21.1 litres each annually – but we rank 16th overall.
Wine Deal:
We are
now doing specials for full and half cases on selected wines - go to
http://koonara.com/ourwines.html to see if your favourites have
5, 10 or 20% off...
Wine
Advice:
We
tend to drink our white wines too cold and our reds too warm.
Serving a wine too cold suppresses its fruit flavour and exaggerates
oak character and tannin. Serving it too warm exaggerates alcohol
but softens tannin – the stuff that causes red wine to have a
puckering effect in the mouth. A good rule of thumb is 15 to 18
degrees for reds (cool room temperature) and 8 to 12 degrees for
whites (moderately chilled). (the photo is frozen wine, not a bong,
as one friend asked)
Bar Joke
 A
neutron walks into a bar. "I'd like a beer" he says. The bartender
promptly serves up a beer. "How much will that be?" asks the
neutron. "For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge."
  
Restaurants
we love:
La Camera -
Southbank, Melbourne
Big supporters of us for years now, La Camera means "The Room" in
Italian. amazing view of the city skyline, great ambience, great
Italian food.....Yummo!
http://lacamerasouthgate.com/
 Word
of the day:
CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when
vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece
of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up,
examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more
chance.
Jules & Alana
Great friends and once-Coonawarra_winemakers Jules Langworthy and Alana Hill-Ling recently got
married on Cable Beach, in Broome - I'm not sure there are too many
places in the world that could top that as a spot for a wedding. Perfect
weather, and nothing but stunning ladies, the tidiest of tidy wines,
and Knappstein Beers as far as the eye could see. More photos
here:
That's a lot of sand...
 c
Alana & Stepdad Dick
The lovely couple with the wedding party looking on...
The recently engaged Coonawarra locals George Kidman and Cath Cox
Myself &
Nicole
Cooking with MacGyver
 Artichoke
No bagging the artichoke!
Yes, I'm sure most of you screw your face
up at it in the fresh veg section, but these things are
awesome and in season, so here is a good interactive, simple recipe:
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Rinse the artichokes
in running cold water.
In a large pot, put a couple inches of water, a clove of garlic, a
slice of lemon, and a bay leaf.
Insert a steaming basket. Add the artichokes. Cover. Bring to a boil
and reduce heat to simmer. Cook for 25 to 45 minutes or until the
outer leaves can easily be pulled off. Cooking time depends on how
large the artichoke is, the larger, the longer it takes to cook.
  How
to Eat an Artichoke
Artichokes may be eaten cold or hot, but better hot. Serve with full egg mayonnaise.
1. Pull off outer
petals, one at a time.
2. Dip white fleshy
end in melted butter or sauce. Tightly grip the other end of the
petal. Place in mouth, dip side down, and pull through teeth to
remove soft, pulpy, delicious portion of the petal. Discard
remaining petal.
3. With a knife or spoon, scrape out and
discard the inedible fuzzy part (called the "choke") covering the
artichoke heart. The remaining bottom of the artichoke is the heart.
Cut into pieces and dip into sauce to eat.
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cook_and_eat_an_artichoke/
 Wine Quoteth:
"Wine is one of the most
civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of
the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it
offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than,
possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Ernest
Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
Wise
advice:
A person is only as big as the things that make him angry.
Events:
Coonawarra
Cup - 14th Jan
Biggest day in the racing calendar in Coonawarra - book your
accommodation now at
www.penola.org
  
More racing photos from last year:
http://www.penola.org/racing_vignerons2009.htm
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