Re: Aussie red wines are better than american red wines


keith wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:51:12 -0700, bill.sloman wrote:
>
> >
> > Al wrote:
> >> In article <rkeak15qgm3b4eldis15076tol00qaaj06@xxxxxxx>,
> >> Jim Thompson <thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:59:20 +0100, John Woodgate
> >> > <jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >I read in sci.electronics.design that Al <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in
> >> > ><no.spam-0BE702.09034505102005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'Aussie red
> >> > >wines are better than american red wines', on Wed, 5 Oct 2005:
> >> > [snip]
> >> > >>Red wine gives me a headache.
> >> > >>
> >> > >Try paying more than $1 a bottle. (;-)
> >> >
> >> > ROTFLMAO!
> >> >
> >> > ...Jim Thompson
> >>
> >> Red wine comes in a bottle and not in those plastic jugs in a cardboard
> >> box??
> >
> > It isn't a plastic jug, but a plastic sack - as you take the wine out,
> > the sack collapses, so you don't expose the wine to atmospheric oxygen,
> > and it doesn't turn to vinegar. IIRR this is a patented Australian
> > invention, and - in my experience - only the Australians sell decent
> > wine in these casks.
>
> Decent wine, perhaps (but that definition likely will beg the question).
> The $5/5l boxed wines have had mylar bladders for *years* here. Bars have
> similar setups, but under CO2 pressure and "pour" through a gun. I'd be
> really surprised if there is an enforcable patent on such a thing.

$5 for 5 litres is too cheap to be worth drinking (unless you are an
alcoholic).

I was told about the patent on the collapsible bag in the box sometime
around 1980, so it has certainly expired by now.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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