Great Old Wines Symbolize...

The durability of friendship.

The soil of the grape-growing regions in Australia is millions of years old. By comparison, the soil of the wine regions of France are thousands of years, maybe some tens of thousands of years old at best.

Today, French wine makers are taking back genetic material from the vines in Australia to try and formulate new vines back in France that will grow grapes closer to the fruit produced there prior to the Great Phylloxera Plague of the late 1800's.

St Hallett - 'Faith Shiraz.'
To commemorate the faith
some early German settlers
to the Barossa had, in growing their
vines.

Most people today do not have sufficient time. Sufficient time to contemplate, or to enjoy their lives - even if they have some basic material 'wealth.'

We could, in theory, have a 'Destination Wine Evening' hosted right here, and post up short video clips of some cool people opening a couple of bottles of something very expensive together.

And the temptation is to set these videos at particular scheduled times, so that people from all across the globe might participate, if only via the on-line process. Even so, it would be pretty interesting.

But then again, who has the time to do any of this? To actually wait for some additional scheduled moment for some 'nuther important thing we all just have to do.

We all have enough of those as it is.

Argh, forget it.

There is nothing that important going on here.

All the important stuff is happening elsewhere, right?

Paris does have the marketing...

The wonderful lives of all the wonderful people are going on. While we little people face another week of doing small things, among other small people, with nothing but Death and Taxes to absorb our minds, to control our attention.

And I hear some of you saying: 'Oh yeah but what, what if we drop all of that like you are really suggesting underneath it all -? We'll go rapidly broke and not be able to afford even the cheap bottles of your vaunted Barossa 'Big Reds...'

You, little man, have only been here a very short time.

The land that I stand upon, has been here for millions of years.

You don't know anything.

...If you are that arrogant contemporary person who thinks they already know everything.

I am Orlando. You don't even know who 'Orlando' is unless you Google-Search for it! LOL