Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 5:54?am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 3:30?am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > My other guess is that I will need to learn more about
> > > Californian wine.-
> >
> > I just bought a few bottles from a small vineyard in Kentucky, of all
> > places; not the greatest in the world, but I think it'll age nicely.
> > Seems the state government there is giving out incentives to Tobacco
> > farmers to switch to alternative crops, and grapes are quite popular.

> If government incentives are the main inducement, then 20 years down
> the track there will probably a wine glut. Having paid Australian
> farmers to plant vineyards, taxes are now being used to pay some
> farmers to pull the vines up. We never seem to get agricultural
> water policy right.

Corrected that.

> > Unfortunately the only bourbon distillery I could go to was Makers
> > Mark. I have decided Makers Mark is good for two things: bourbon balls
> > (chocolate with bourbon inside; sometimes the center is a cherry
> > soaked in bourbon) and mixing with a really odd blackberry wine to
> > make something that tastes a lot like port. I think you could also use
> > it to strip stain from old furniture, but I haven't tried yet.

> I thought that was what all bourbon was used for. Stick to proper
> Irish whiskey.

Ugh.

Mike