"Reg Edwards" wrote:
The clock tells me it's 7.30 in the morning in Birmingham, the idle,
depressed ex-industrial city of the Midlands, where there used to be
10,000 factories, now superceded by the hardworking Chinese, and I'm
already half way down a bottle of Spanish Campaneo red. Hic!

Reg, FYI: "NAPA, Calif. - French and California winemakers marked the 30th
anniversary of the storied Paris tasting with another sip-and-spit showdown.
California won - and by more than a nose. Native wines took the top five of
10 spots, with a 1971 Ridge Monte Bello cabernet sauvignon from the Santa
Cruz mountains coming out on top Wednesday."
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73, Cecil, W5DXP