[Leica] A Few More Posts

[Ken Carney]

Thanks, Douglas.  We were in a Catholic group, so they had rolled out 
all the alcohol ads.  Speaking of Mouton, I had originally thought that 
it was Baron Philippe that had founded the industry in Israel, but it 
was Edmond.

On 9/1/2019 5:47 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> Astonishing, I've never seen Jesus Christ being used as an endorser of 
> anything - let alone wine. A good blasphemous catch, Ken.
> On the wine, I've never had wine from Israel, but if any of it is as 
> good as some of the Lebanese wines, I'd give it a go. However, a good 
> Bordeaux - like Mouton Rothschild might be a tad better than Mutton 
> Rothschild...
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> Douglas
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> On 01/09/2019 21:01, Ken Carney via LUG wrote:
>> These are tourist snaps from Cana, Israel, where tourists come to 
>> renew their wedding vows.  Maybe the husbands got lucky later on - 
>> hope so.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/_DSF5863-Edit.jpg.html
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>> There are also a lot of wine shops, and this is one of the ads. The 
>> wines set out for tasting were "ceremonial" wines and pretty bad.  
>> But, I did see some bottles of red labeled "Rothschild". It turns out 
>> that in the late 1800's Baron Edmond Rothschild had become impressed 
>> with the soil there and founded some wineries. It doesn't appear the 
>> Rothschild family has had any involvement there in recent times, but 
>> whatever it was pretty good.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/_DSF5856-Edit-2.jpg.html
>>
>> Ken
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