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    Happy days ahead for some...

    Wine Lake Despite drought, bushfires, and rising water costs Australia’s growers have produced a surplus equivalent to 400 Olympic swimming pools or 100 million cases of wine - some selling for less than the cost of bottled water – and with 4 leading industry bodies saying that as much as a quarter (40,000 hectares of plantings) may not be viable SMH.

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    this wine surplus has been going on for the past three years at least

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    Love it

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    Quote Originally Posted by travelling_gerry View Post
    Love it
    Depends whether your in the buyers market or trying to flog the stuff. Some folks are very flexible though, I suppose.

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    I'm drinking the stuff.


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    I'm tipping that if you could locate one of those 400 pools you would be swimming in it too TG

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    Can you get French oak swimming pools?

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    I think some of us need to take a long hard look at ourselves and ask if we are letting the Australian wine industry down.
    I, for one, thought I was doing my bit, but obviously I have to redouble my efforts...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Em-Forcer View Post
    I think some of us need to take a long hard look at ourselves and ask if we are letting the Australian wine industry down.
    I, for one, thought I was doing my bit, but obviously I have to redouble my efforts...
    so that would mean you drink 4x as many wines as you do now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Em-Forcer
    obviously I have to redouble my efforts...
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    so that would mean you drink 4x as many wines as you do now?
    Only if I'm playing bridge, apparently. Otherwise it's just 2x. Unless you're buying...?

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    I'm being picky on the word "redouble", which technically (to me at least) is re-double (ie 2x [re] and double [2x], hence 4x).

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    Yeah I know - I looked it up (I'm a ), and it just means to double, unless you're doubling someone else's double bet in bridge.

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