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Mine would have to be Coolabah's Fruity Lexia. It's a quality drop.

What is yours?

When assessing a wine, I like to analyse more than the horrible taste, and the likely hangover provided by such high quality wine manufacture. I like to think of the circumstances in which such a drink can be drunk.

I don't think any other wine lends itself to entertainment quite like the Coolabah. I mean, try attaching your Grange to the Hills Hoist and playing Goon of Fortune.

You certainly can't sleep on your Grange at the end of the night, either. Clearly on these metrics it rates highly for me.

What about you?

Yeah I agree. That Coolabah's Fruity Lexia is a damn good wine. Probably my wine of the year. I had it blind against a 1990 Ch Yquem and Coolabahs came up trumps.

We are talking Coolabah Fruity Lexia in the bag, I hope? And stuff using the plastic glassware out of Clint's $2 picnic pack - just drink (even better, skull) this vinous nectar straight from the dispenser. Adds that touch of class to your favourite wine drinking experience. Great thread, Chops, 3 votes for the CFL already.

Methinks you camped too long in the riverbed, your brain suffered from oxygen deprivation when you almost drowned in the floods and the experience left you with nothing but memories of goom.

Perhaps I have lived a sheltered life, but what exactly is "goon of fortune"?? I greatly desire to know...

I believe it is where a bag of fine wine, such as fruity lexia, is attached to a hills hoist. Players stand beneath the line, and it is swung. Whoever it lands above must drink from the cask (from memory)/

I don't know why stonyridge doesn't do this type of thing at their summer parties. Then they have to be all special and put their wine in a bottle. A cask is way better!!

PaulG wrote:I believe it is where a bag of fine wine, such as fruity lexia, is attached to a hills hoist. Players stand beneath the line, and it is swung. Whoever it lands above must drink from the cask (from memory)/

theme for the next offline?

If you guys organise a vertical tasting of Fruity Lexia in Melbourne, I'm up for it

Craig(NZ) wrote:Yeah I agree. That Coolabah's Fruity Lexia is a damn good wine. Probably my wine of the year. I had it blind against a 1990 Ch Yquem and Coolabahs came up trumps.

"Had it blind".

That was your problem. You can start on the quality stuff like Fruity Lexia and then move onto the lower quality French stuff.

If you guys give me enough notice I will fly from Auckland for a vertical of fruity nexia. I will have to check my records to see what vintages I could offer to bring. Either that or I am happy to contribute cash.

I can bring some big party bag size budget brand chicken chips to compliment the subtle fruity nexia delights

sjw_11 wrote:Perhaps I have lived a sheltered life, but what exactly is "goon of fortune"?? I greatly desire to know...

Dearly departed Kerry?

Craig(NZ) wrote:If you guys give me enough notice I will fly from Auckland for a vertical of fruity nexia. I will have to check my records to see what vintages I could offer to bring. Either that or I am happy to contribute cash.

Oooh! A vertical! Let's see, well I've got a last Thursday vintage, a Boxing Day vintage (both un-opened), a mid-December vintage and I might even be able to squeeze something from the early December vintage.

Just kidding! The old Fruity Lexia doesn't last more than 48 hours. Who can go past a wine that you can blow into and then get it to come out under high pressure?

Mind you, if you are looking to distill a 'brandy', then the fruity does quite well. IHIOGA

Sometimes we go really posh and get BB Spatlese Lexia!!

What is a "vertical"?

Fruity Lexia is also a bit of a legsopener. I would have thought it was more suited to a "horizontal"?

What is the cellaring potential of the old Coolabah?

Which one is most likely to appreciate? The Red or White?

....and his ghost may be heard as it wanders by the billabong, under the shade of a Coolabah tree...

I cant believe no one has mentioned passion pop.....best 2 bucks ever spent

Passion Pop is excellent, however not as versatile as Fruity Lexia (passion-pop of fortune sometimes ends in concussion or some form of liver disease)

Cloth Ears wrote:Sometimes we go really posh and get BB Spatlese Lexia!!

Hey! I have two bottles of Brown Brother's wines in Canada and one of them happens to be a 2000 Spatlese Lexia.

Mahmoud.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

Cloth Ears wrote:Sometimes we go really posh and get BB Spatlese Lexia!!

Hey! I have two bottles of Brown Brother's wines in Canada and one of them happens to be a 2000 Spatlese Lexia.

Mahmoud.

Aren't you the lucky one?!!!

Like Craig(NZ) I might serve it blind alongside a d'Yquem.

Mahmoud

Do it for Australia!

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There is only one Australian way left to celebrate; Goon of Fortune.

It brings together Australia inventions, the Hills Hoist and cask wine, also known as the goon bag.

Peg the bladder to the line and spin. If the bladder lands above you, skol and feel Australian-ness wash over you.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/0 ... tnews.html

Fruity Lexia clearly has its admirers on the forum, but my favorite wine is the mead, or honey wine, made by a good friend because.....

1) It is possible to drink it (just),
2) At altitude it turns into a sparkling wine, and
3) Its an amazingly good floor cleaner.

I'm sure it has other qualities which hopefully others will discover.

Mike

A friend of mine made a mead as well.... I am cellaring the bottle he gave me, definitely, absolutely not because I am petrified of drinking it, but rather to allow it to "mellow" and acquire "additional complexity"

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

Cloth Ears wrote:Sometimes we go really posh and get BB Spatlese Lexia!!

Hey! I have two bottles of Brown Brother's wines in Canada and one of them happens to be a 2000 Spatlese Lexia.

Mahmoud.

The Mrs did actually buy a 1992 BBSL when we went up to lunch a few years ago. It has aged quite well (complete with crunchy diamonds) and had that distinctive "vintage sticky" flavour. Not quite a Sauterne, but worth-while for $16. I wouldn't bother to buy and cellar it for that long, but I'm always keen to taste the results fo someone else's cellaring...