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[Farglesnargle.com] FargleSnargle.com: I had it with a salad that contained greens, tomatoes, onions, carrots, dried blueberries (I’m glad that I had some!), topped with some kosher beef brisket (that was stewed in yesterday’s Buckeley’s Shiraz along with some white potatoes, carrots, onion and spices.)

[Drvino.net] Dr. Vino -- wine picks and politics | Wizard of Oz: Ben ...: Woop Woop is one such example. With an expensive portfolio of wines, Hammerschlag sought a good value wine to offer distributors and restaurateurs a full range of wines at all price points. Woop Woop, which retails for around $11 in the US, is a fruit-forward Shiraz with a striking sunset photo on the label (and a trendy screwcap on top of the white wine version). The box for a case of Woop Woop-and there are 22,000 of those a year-is covered with uses of this local expression, which in local parlance means "the middle of nowhere."

 [Dallasnews.com] DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Food: "Even before Fat Bastard," Mr. Storer says, "you had names that were creative, " such as Laughing Magpie, a shiraz-viognier blend, and Dead Arm shiraz, both Australian wines; several Bonny Doon wines from California, such as Cardinal Zin and Big House Red; and Australian Woop Woop, taken from an actual Australian term for a faraway place.

 [Drvino.blogspot.com] Dr. Vino's wine blog: January 2005: Apparently so. But if Foster's follows through on this initial stake with an outright purchase of Southcorp, which is not certain with some analysts even expecting a bidding war, then the combined company would be the number one Australian producer and have a strong presence in the growing North American wine market. So they are essentially "doubling down" by taking a stake in another troubled wine maker, a high risk move, but chances are that they will execute this acquisition better through larger market power. The barrel always turns...

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