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This may be a trivial remark, but the music would drive me crazy if I had to hear for a whole day. BTW: Does anyone know what tunes are played today?

Hm, that's good point. Thanks for your feedback. I will report back on my experience with them. But I won't place my first order before fall/autumn (there are still some other things to put my money in first, so right now I only do mock shopping as a diversion).

The scale on the map is in kilometres. Isn't this unusal or do only the Americans still use miles?

Does anyone have any experience with Portugal Vinyards:
http://www.portugalvineyards.com/ ?
They seem to have some ports that cannot be found at Garrafeira Nacional, though seem a bit more expensive than GN at the same time.

Good on you Gerwin, I lost the 18x Ware's :cry: One minute before ending they came over me. Tried to get it anyway but when the price came up to €400,- I stopped. Bugger!!! Martin I'm sorry to hear that. But if you're interested in the '98 Warre Cavadindha (which was included in the lot), have a lo...

Thanks for the info. I didn't know this auction platform. I won't bid for the Warre. Promised!

Gerwin and Martin: you made me curious. Which auction are you talking about? (Or which auction house?)

I'm delighted that you try Italian wines. Just carry on.

djewesbury wrote:I'd buy more!

With this attitude it's no wonder that you need more cellar space.

djewesbury wrote:Ah sure that'd be an anchor.

Yes, it's an anchor. I thought it was too easy. But now I'm off the hook and can go to bed early. Thanks Daniel.

No.

In March last year I did an internet search for older Niepoort LBVs. I found this one at "Irmgard's Wein-Capinet". I took their last three bottles for 21 Euro each all in.

Ok, I've got a riddle this time:
If you need it, you throw it away. If you don't need it anymore, you get it back. What is it?

Tower Bridge?

Madame Tussauds?

The Tower?

Bottled unfiltered in 2005. D+0h: medium amount of deposit in the tea filter and in the bottle (though some large chunks here), smells very pleasantly and intensively of currant D+5,5h: purple red, on the rim ruby red, smells of raspberry, eucalyptus and of minerality, medium body, not that sweet, m...

flash_uk wrote:Netherlands and Luxembourg

Yes, these were the two countries I had in mind. Over to you.

OK. Here is my question:
There are two countries in the world that have a similar flag. So when the flag of country A is bleached out by the sun, it is turned into the flag of country B.
Name the two countries.
I'm off to bed now, so will not post replies before lunch today.

flash_uk wrote:I'm about to fall asleep, so rather than set a question, I'll hand over to the first person to post a new question, and if none is posted I'll think of one in the morning!

Derek, do you have a question? Otherwise I would have one that is connected to flags.

DRT wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Oh god. It's like I'm back drooling over £5000 sets of Russian prime lenses for 16mm cameras. Stop now.

If you speak to me nicely I'll show you my DiElectric Star Diagonals and my Herschel Wedge

I this the star-gazers version of: "Would you like to come up and see my etchings?"?

Excellent. Chianti Classico or one of the other subregions? It was just a simple Chianti (not Classico) of a producer I didn't know. But as it was offered in the box were wines are sold off that are taken out of the shelf it didn't matter. It was reduced to just 3 Euros. So I thought I could make n...

flash_uk wrote:Chianti

Yes, yes, yes. It was a half bottle of Chianti.

No, close geographically in another sense. What is more tradtitional in Tuscany than Brunello?

Brunello is very, very close.