To: Alan Smithee who wrote (1759 ) 9/20/2009 10:02:00 PM From: X Y Zebra Respond to of 23934 Both Chile and Australia have respectable domestic wine industries. indeed they do... as well as New Zealand, and Argentina (and it appears that Uruguay... perhaps not so much directly, but by 'access to Argentina' they seem to do 'ok' i think all of these countries are 'sleepers' as far as the wine subject is concerned.... give them time... the beneficiaries really... are the consumers... since more production = cheaper prices of really good wines... the only exception (as far as wines go)... is the pinot noir variety... to this day... i have not been able to find a good source of true prime red burgundian alternative to the one and only.... well... BOURGOGNE (French Burgundy)... Oregon, Washington St. and California have some excellent pinot's ... very good in their own right... but they are short from any really good true bourgogne... as in.. any of the DRC's La Tache, Vosne Romanee, Richebourg, Echezaux... etc., etc., etc....en.wikipedia.org who knows.. maybe someone will discover the right micro climate and produce an equivalent to a premiere cru DRC of enormous proportion that will make me be completely wrong.... if so... i will buy the first case from them.... ---Now, let's get back to talking about the wimmmens... -lol ! well... since i'd be an *implicit* --> pig :) i guess i can speak about the subject.... however, my pigness is not as one would otherwise imagine... -g this is all i have to say.... form relatively direct experience i believe that women form these countries... (uruguay, chile, argentina, and brazil)... i have observed -g that the specific combination of FRENCH and GERMAN species.... yield the most incredibly beautiful examples of female beauty... ad to the above... the weather and passion that those latin countries are known for.... and..... well... voila.... you end up with superb samples of why men are pigs -LOL !! example...fineartamerica.com rest my case.... :) p.s. of course... you can always get the brazilian JERK with blue eyes.... blogcdn.com a POLITICIAN.... what else... ???