Posted on 11/30/2006 8:08:16 PM PST by quantim
I'm buying Aussie Shiraz for as little as $3.99 a bottle. I don't even make a special effort to select wines right now, because it's so cheap in the supermarkets. Don't know how long this will last, but its been a great run!
"Don't worry, you're DRC is safe it just may be harder to get as less of little is imported."
Like it's so easy to get down at my local grocery store (or even at my fancy schmancy wine store) and ever SO affordable NOW.
I've never had a DRC Burgandy or even Petrus. I've had Lafite Rothchild, La Tour, Mouton Rothchild (really good), Heitz Martha's, some Silver Oak and others, but never the really, really big guns.
I've had a really great obscure Burgandy once. It was very multi layered and the flavors just seemed to keep coming. That was a really good experience. It was only about $27 back in 90/91.
There is a rather large Aussie glut too, has been for years and will likely continue. Also reflected in price - and doing rather well at the grocery store tier.
Unlike most of the French bulk wines, the Australian wines are quite drinkable and don't need to be distilled into industrial products...lol.
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti's white Grand Cru, Le Montrachet the rarest of all white Burgundies of which there are only maybe a couple hundred cases a year.
Tried them a couple times in the last millenia - fantastic of course but for the money I'd take a case of a single vineyard Chablis Grand Cru over a bottle of the DRC blanc.
I snagged the wood pine box where I was the sommelier at the time that the several thousand dollar six-pack came in and use it up north to store my boat anchor in over the winter, LOL!
Pretty much right on...
http://www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm is the website for this.
2.8 billion liters converted by
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.785 411 8 liter
equals 739,681,743 gallons
or using 1 liter = 0.035 314 667 cubic foot
equals 98,881,067 cubic feet
or for lake volumes (using 1 ft^3 = 0.000 022 957 acre foot)
equals 2270 acre feet.
Lake Logan southeast of Columbus, has a surface area of 400 acres, and an average depth of 25 feet. This gives it a nominal volume of 10,000 acre-feet, for comparison.
Pick your own local lake of wine comparison... ;-)
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