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    Show Off Your Viprati Pipes

    I love Bulldogs and horn stems. This was a no brainer
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    Best Smelling Non-Aromatic Blends

    You are a lucky man indeed. My wife used to join me in a drink or three, and the occasional cigarillo or kretek (Indonesian clove cigarette). All that stopped when we were expecting our 1st son many moons ago.
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    A Wine Dinner

    As were oysters There are those who aver that shrimps and prawns are marine cockroaches. 🙄 Bloody Philistines 😁
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    Best Smelling Non-Aromatic Blends

    She lets me know very quickly if I have forgotten to close a window or door and the smell wafts into the house. To her credit she will stick her head out to ask if she can get me a tea or coffee when I am having a bowl.
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    Best Smelling Non-Aromatic Blends

    Some wives can’t be pleased when it comes to tobacco ☹️ I only smoke outdoors and I am careful to close all doors and windows as my wife is intolerant of ALL pipe tobacco and even more so of cigars.
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    A Wine Dinner

    Any more than 12 will be a wine tasting rather than a drinking dinner 😁
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    A Little Humor for the Day 2025

    My wife insisted on our two under 4yos wearing gum boots at Bondi Beach - just in case there were hypodermic needles left in the sand by drug-addicted crazies 🙄
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    A Wine Dinner

    I was in another wine group - all bottles had to be tete du cuvée, first growths or grand cru. I quit after a few years This group is more eclectic - interesting bottle(s) without any emphasis on cost or (presumed) quality
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    A Wine Dinner

    10-12 most dinners. There is usually a wine writer or two, winemakers, vigneron, wine marketer, but mostly just wine lushes (like moi). This time we had a guest who is a Master of Wine
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    A Wine Dinner

    The wine is all contributed, so the only bill is for the food. The bottle of DRC Grands Echezeaux (current prices) alone will pay for all the food twice over. So we dine well, but affordably due to the largese of a few of the group.
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    A Wine Dinner

    A couple members have deep pockets and large cellars and the generosity that goes with it. Most of us make do with much more humble fare.
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    A Wine Dinner

    I was at an Italian restaurant some years ago with a few bottles that we had brought along. The very young waiter (probably 18 or 19yo), on his 1st day working, looked puzzledly at the bottles and asked "how do I open these?" He had never seen a bottle with a cork 😁
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    A Wine Dinner

    There is a very similar species called a Balmain bug (after a waterside suburb in Sydney, Oz) Both Moreton Bay and Balmain bugs have sweet, tender meat if they are not overcooked
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    A Wine Dinner

    Thank you. Wine (and food) has been an interest since university days. I'm blessed with a group of like-minded and very generous friends.
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    A Wine Dinner

    It's a set price menu which includes corkage - no surprises at the end of the night
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