Good headline, but dud story. I was surprised to see it make the front page of The Age this morning that Governor General Quentin Bryce doesn’t know what to do with her overflowing wine cellar.
The Governor General’s official residences house more than 3000 bottles of fine wine. So what!
I don’t get what the problem is either.
Her Excellency is wary of extravagance, so only gives guests wine valued at $20 or less.
Let’s get this straight … she sends a flunky to the bottle-o to buy $15 plonk from petty cash (or orders delivery from Dan Murphy), rather than tap into her cellar.
And she wonders why her stocks aren’t depleting and puzzles over what to do with them. Sigh.
Simple solution: Use your stocks before you buy any more wine.
Sir John Kerr (pictured below left at the Melbourne Cup in 1977) would have known what to do.
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I can’t recall what we pay for wine in Canada but it seems $11.00 is a cheap bottle.
Here I can get a comparable bottle for $3.99. Which, I know, is not an incredible bottle (but my tastes are simple).
Hold on, as I recall, the $11.00 bottle was a bit bitter so we opted for a $12.00 bottle and… eventually, we moved on to the box of wine (which is about 4 bottles for $30.00 + dollars).
oh god…some people really have a tough life.
Get over it GG…puleeeeze!