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Tuesday, 22 September 2009

not even Sarah could get drunk on this much wine.


New Zealand has some fine wines, I have heard. particularly their white wines. the climate is good for the grapes. I quote my guide book 'Trying a zingy Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc wine can be a life - changing experience as the fresh, fruity, almost herbal aromas leap out of the glass'. In truth I wasnt thinking that as I looked for the cheapest bottle of plonk i could buy with the 10 coin dollars in my wallet. I only want something to cook with. As fate would have it the cheapest turned out to be a 187 ml bottle of zingy marlborough sauvignon blanc. Apparantly though, in new zealand you need identification to buy a 187 ml bottle of zingy marlborough sauvignon blanc. Apparantly in new zealand a foreign drivers licence is not enough ID, for 187 ml of zingy marlborough sauvignon blanc. even if youre nearly 28 and your other shopping items are a packet of rolled oats and an onion. Surely not the shopping basket of a dispossessed youth: 187ml of sauvignon blanc (marlborough - zingy), 800g of rolled oats (high fibre) and and onion. Dispossessed youths have no interest in maintaining a high fibre diet.
Over here they only accept your passport as ID. what if i get drunk on my 187 ml of marlborough sauvignon blanc and lose my passport?

'How was your night?'
'Ah pretty life changing mate.'
'Ye?'
Ye. made oat cookies drank a bottle marlborough sauvignon blanc and threw onions at pensioners'
'ah ye?'
'Ye....
lost me bloody passport though....'

1 comment:

Molokoloko News said...

I could let you have about 5 gallons of Molokoloko's best vino!