Its necroloy times
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K.Polly
His telephone nr has been void. When checking I found out he had passed away recently.
Have hunted with him in Styria on ducks and met him occasionally in the nearby shooting club.
With his metal-processing background its no wonder that he had a special liking for the
Mannlicher and also for a Holland block-rifle. As a curiosum he sometimes
appeared at the club with a WW II-amphibious-car ( Schwimmwagen).
Without kids one more Mannlicher collection will be dispersed.
RIP
C. Penzes
Profi gunsmith with a shop in a district town of eastern Austria.
He had trained the youngsters in shotgunning at the nearby club.
Surprising death message and too much for one and the same day.
His shop is now gone, preceeded to it a gunshop closed in the
neighbouring disctrict.
From a family of technicians as his grandoncle did repair
churchtower-clocks.
RIP
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Its winetasting times
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Update to previous post re Bordeaux de l'est.
I have tasted me through samples from 5 of these Villany estates.
Vintage wise backwards up to 2007, in corona times simply via
mail order.
Some facts:
Red wine acreage about 2000 ha, this is a small area compared
to other wine growing regions.
Wineries family owned small estates. one exception owned
by a banker, a type of Hungaro -Mondavi.
Run by profi-gunmakers, no weekend-hobby-winemakers.
All of these established in the privatisation wave after 1989.
No discounting, no fast-buck/fast-turnaround business-model.
The 2007 and 2012 are really great mature vintages in the price-range
45-85 E per bottle.
How does a French-Bordeaux-Westbank/Medoc 800 E bottle compare with
such a Vinum-Ambrosianum-Villanicum:
The difference are 500 years of history and the english royals since more
than 120 years as testimonials.
The world-class Californian reds are not available here (Caymus,Dunn,GdL),
it seems US drinks these themselves.
Before you knit your brows on such prices here is a statement by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
"Life is too short to drink mediocre wine"
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Cheers and Prost
F.N.

Last edited by felix; 05/03/21 09:22 AM.