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[Brad Mayer]

Yep, Australian Chardonnay is some of the best in the world.   A bit 
unseeming to appear to gloat over the swaggeringly overpriced, overbearing, 
almighty US dollar, though :-D You might have made the last call, however - 
talk about talking (or forcing) it down has begun to emerge as of late 
(today's Investor's Daily, today's Paul Krugman @ NYT)

-Brad Mayer

At 02:20 PM 8/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Not really - did more polite wine drinking than pub crawling. Having
>the A$ at about US$0.51 makes for some great bargains. Excellent food
>& wine for what seems almost like pennies to an American. Australian
>wine is really good stuff - even the house wine in a pizzeria is
>tasty (and something like US$1.75 a glass). And Australians just love
>to eat, drink, hang out, and yak - my kind of people.
>
>More to come, after I figure out the US GDP revisions that came out
>when I was away.
>
>Doug