The Vinothek for Australia was a long time in the planning and making. Sydney was chosen as the first city to have a Vinothek outlet, which, in retrospect, may have been an unwise choice, since many people from Melbourne, who had visited, had begged for just such an establishment in Melbourne.
Vinothek was established to provide Australia with the very finest, outstanding, indeed unusual and exclusive wines of Germany, also with a reasonable contingent of Austrian wines, which, although in the last decades very much overlooked in the world in general, are now becoming the focus of intense, international interest for their quality. These wines blasted away generations old, false conceptions of German wines in the minds of the English speaking world generally.
(the tale continues here)
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28 Apr 10
Ein Glas Wein auf die Suppe ist dem Arzt einen Taler entzogen
A glass of wine with the soup is a dollar taken from the doctor
(German Proverb)
Un pane, un fiasco e un anno - veloci se ne vanno.
A loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and a year - they go quickly.
(Italian Proverb)
Nimm Du täglich Deinen Tropfen,
wird dein Herz stets freudig klopfen,
wirst im Alter - wie der Wein,
stets begehrt und heiter sein.
Take daily your drops,
always will your heart beat gladly,
become with age - like the wine
ever treasured and mellow.
(Old German Toast)
A bottle of good wine begs to be shared
(Old Chinese proverb)
