Irregular Update
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Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008
Welcome to this weeks Irregular Update, which is on time as Brian was considerate enough to come back from holidays and proofread Chapter Four of the Tour Diaries.
I hadn't planned it, but an extremely interesting story just happened to fall into my lap. It all started when I received a strange email asking me if I had any Dom Perignon for sale, for delivery in London. I smelt a rotten scam here, so decided to play along and see what happened, and I am sure glad I did! The trail I was taken on, and wound up taking the scammer on, had more twists and turns than a drive through the Adelaide Hills, and that's saying something. The whole operation is exposed for all to see, but there was one factor I never expected. The hopeless, apathetic attitude of the London/Metropolitan police who are much to busy running the police force to bother with trying to catch criminals engaged in perpetrating fraud. Read all about TORB and the Dom Perignon Scam, it's an eye opener.
This week in Chapter Four of the 2007 South Australian Tour Diaries, we leave McLaren Vale and head for the Barossa. On the way we stopped at Chain of Ponds where we had an interesting tasting. Then we had a "Claytons visit" to Wayne Dutschke. He has a few new wines, and the Oscar Semmler is, for my money, the best wine Wayne has made. After lunch it was on to a new small producer, Jamabro. It's the typical case of a producer who has got tired of low/unsustainable grape prices deciding to make wine themselves. Tim Smith was our last winery of the day but this chapter also contains tasting notes on new releases from both Smallfry and Flaxman. It can be found here.
The News section has been active over the past week. Some of the stories of possible interest include:
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Foster's Wine Estates Announces Introduction of Boomerang Vodka
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Record harvest in Champagne
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EU scratches scars in fight to remove surplus wine
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Ripe, flavoursome and back in favour
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State Government backs Wine Australia regional Heroes
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100 helicopters scrambled to save New Zealand vines
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Evans & Tate decision set for December
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Investment company Bordeaux Advisory disappears
Those stories and more can be found here.
This weeks quote. "If you are a sporting star, you're a sporting star. If you don't quite make it, you become a coach. If you can't coach you become a journalist. If you can't spell, you introduce Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon." - Desmond Lynam
Until next week .... Cheers!
Ric
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