Personally, I like to enjoy my MGs with senses at full, well, sensitivity.
PaulH.
-----Original Message-----
From: deutas37@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu <deutas37@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu>
To: WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com>
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 09 December 1998 21:27
Subject: Re: Wine
Because there is nothing i like more than a stiff drink before i drive my
MG...or any car for that matter.
Adam Deutsch
72B
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998 WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
> <>
>
> How nice to see a car group discussing another of my favourite pastimes —
> wine. The guys over at the Jensen group are, almost to a man, unrepentant
suds
> suckers and wouldn't know a good wine if they were handed one (I say that,
> confident that there is no overlap between the groups, except for one
friend
> that wouldn't squeal on me — right Len?)
>
> An interest in wine complements a sports car hobby — almost wherever we go
on
> car events, we can find something also interesting related to wine. I
still
> can't convince everyone that the perfect place for a meet is in Napa,
though.
>
> I don't usually do car things when in Europe, but a couple of years ago
> happened to be in Monaco for the weekend of the Historic races (a week
before
> the Grand Prix), and it was the most interesting and civilised thing to be
> sitting at a cafe at trackside sipping a nice bottle. The most contact
that
> many racers get is the spray of bubbly in the face when they win a race
(gross
> misuse of often decent wine!). Wish we were more into that here, but with
the
> exception of Gil Nickel, who runs Far Niente and tries to promote wine at
the
> races, it is still the rolling out of the barrel that heralds the end of
the
> day's event.
>
> Do you members in Oz do car events in wine country?
>
> Bill S.
>
>
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