[Moorf]

I can't stand the stuff and had an arguement with hotel on Val's night in Welly when they tried to palm me off with it calling it "champagne"... bleeeuuuurrggh.... :no

So.. Lindauer - love it or hate it or what!!

[Milliemoo]

I love it.....but I don't think Tia likes it when I drink it :p

Milliemoo


p.s Doesn't really compare to a 96 Bollinger though ;)

[jubjub]

Wonder which way Kate will vote :laugh

I like the sec one, and not the others. I do like bubbles though, so if its the only bubbles going, then :cheers!

[gil]

Haven't voted 'cos I'm not sure which one to pick: I do like the Special Reserve but not the strawberry one!

Gil

[Moorf]

Wonder which way Kate will vote

She's got shares....

[Tia Maria]

I love it.....but I don't think Tia likes it when I drink it :p

Milliemoo


p.s Doesn't really compare to a 96 Bollinger though ;)

Its not the drinking thats the problem, its the lack of standing up afterwards! :D

Cheers

Tia

[Bruckner]

I like it! Once I saw the price of Bollinger here I really started to appreciate it even more.

Emily

[Leccy-Lee]

Never heard of it! oops

[Moorf]

I think it's a chick thang! :laugh

[Tia Maria]

I don't like any fizzy alcohol, I put it down to the 'Great Babycham incident of 1989'!

Cheers

Tia

[Bruckner]

So is Lindauer the Cold Duck of NZ? Or worse, is it Andre? I used the love the Andre Christmas commercials as a kid.

Emily

[Bruckner]

I don't like any fizzy alcohol, I put it down to the 'Great Babycham incident of 1989'!


I fear this is akin to my 1986 Coco Goya nightmare. Took me years to sip a pina colada again.

Emily

[Familyofmonkeys]

Had to wikipedia it :o

Not surprised I had never heard of this....we don't really do bubby vino....although I am rather patial to a few bubbly cocktails :D

[Chiba]

I was reminded of this:

Wine Expert:

A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain.

Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines.

Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn.

Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat.

Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends.

Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit.

[Leccy-Lee]

Is it like Bucks-Fizz? I have VERY bad memories of too much Bucks-Fizz at a 21st party many years ago! Never touched it since! LOL

[Lupin]

I hadn't heard of it but I'm either G&T or a cold beer person. Very rarely a glass of wine but probably not fizzy wine.

[wiki]

It's okay as an ice cold picnic drink - plucked out of the river where it's been cooling for a couple of hours :cheers

But as a table wine, it's a nope. And to be passed off as champagne? Not even close - they sure did try to rip you off Moorf :uhoh

[Mels]

Its not the drinking thats the problem, its the lack of standing up afterwards! :D

Cheers

Tia

Tia - If you can lie on the floor without needing to hold on - then you're OK :yes

Hate to say but I like the strawberry one , good for picnics.

Mels

[ellenmelon]

i was a bit wary of ANY type of bubbles too (after the bernadino incident of 2001...yes, i am a wee one!...not as bad as asti spewmante lol) but i had deutz a wee while back and it was lovely. im not a drinker at all (last time i was drunk was 2001, i kid you not.) but ive tried lindauer and its...rank. for what you're paying i suppose its ok (i worked in a bottle store for a bit and it sells very well)...but to palm it off as champers is bad form.

edit: sorry that reads so strangely...im outrageously overtired.

[peebles16]

I don't like any fizzy alcohol, I put it down to the 'Great Babycham incident of 1989'!

Cheers

Tia

Oh I remember having one of those incidents - involved brandy too (hic!)
Never again :no :no

:cheers
Karenx

[zardell]

Lindauer - yuk.

Then again, I have to agree with Chiba on the Ozzie wine front. Some (read most) of them are really dire and believe me, I've tried a few....:uhoh

Give me a good bottle of Pinot Gris everytime.

Julie

xx

[KerryS]

Eww - I hate Lindauer, even the sec is far too sweet and the volume of bubbles is far too high.

I like real champagne, especially a nice glass of Tattinger though. Or Veuve if there is any going. Never Moet - tastes soapy and metallic all at the same time.
Deutz is ok for a champagnoise bubbly. I'd rather that than Lindauer.
For really, really cheap bubbles the Jacobs Creek Rose is quite palatable - or maybe it's just that I'm normally already squiffy before I accept a glass...

[LesleyS]

Tried it because it always seems to be on offer - but it's not really a 'serious' drink is it?
Probably good for picnics, but give me a great Sauv Blanc or Otago Pinot Noir anyday.
OH wont touch the fizzy wine either so it's a thumbs down for us then!