I have never endorsed (for
reward, direct or indirect) a wine or winemaker; I have endorsed Riedel
glassware, on the basis that I had been using limited amounts of Riedel
glassware since 1969, beautiful, long-stemmed, small bowl sweet wine glasses,
and Coopers Ale, its green label my perennial favourite beer. For the last
endorsement (‘the winemaker’s beer’) Ian McKenzie and I were to receive a dozen
bottles of Coopers each year, but it wasn’t too long before the deal
mysteriously disappeared. Now there is Antipodes, a product that I have always
thought the ultimate sparkling water to be served at any meal where wine is on
the table. It has that magic balance between still water and fully sparkling,
yet retains the prickle on the tongue for as long as you challenge it to do so.
(It is also available without gas.) It does strike me as truly strange that we
should import mineral water, sparkling or still, all the way from Italy and
France (amongst other countries). Transport across the ditch is a very different thing to
transport from Europe. And then there is Evian, which runs a distant second to
Sydney tap water.
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