A Good Day for Bad News

Regular readers of this blog will know that it's not uncommon for me to deliberate over postings, and frequently say that I've been hitting the delete key. However, the weekends events left me struggling for words even more than usual. I don't have the ability to add anything intelligent to what's already been written and well, now perhaps isn't the time for my low-rent inane ramblings.

So, all I will say is All Hail Victoria, my adopted state. We don't know what's going to happen to parts of Victoria's 2009 vintage (read Bella Bacchante for an overview of the devastation caused to Victorian Wine areas), but in the meantime, next time you go to the bottle shop, buy a bottle (hell make it two) of Victorian wine. You don't need to do it out of charity, just do it because it's good. As I watched the events unfold over the weekend I drank a David Traeger Verdehlo 2008, and the Cosmo Basket Press Shiraz 2006. Both were delicious and both resolutely Victorian. I'll discuss them further later on, but now isn't the time. Just drink and enjoy.

I'm not prone to employing stirring, clichéd quotes, but when Kevin Rudd said that Hell had visited Victoria, I though about the quote from Churchill, who said 'When you're going through Hell, keep going'. A faint whiff of cheese I know, but frankly I don't care.

Be seeing you.