>Do you members in Oz do car events in wine country?
But of course!
The biggest non-marque car show in Victoria (Concours d'Elegance)
is held at the vineyard of a large sparkly specialist (with French
connections)
Club concours have also been held at wineries and there are regular
social tours of wine regions.
Rallies also tend to gravitate around wine/food areas as well.
Our club has used tutored winetastings as a fund-raiser (I was the 'tutor'
on that occasion) and I have given a talk on wine, winemaking and tasting
at a club meeting. As you might expect, there is a lot of interest!
Mike
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From: WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 12:35 PM
Subject: Wine
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>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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