Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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... Douglas 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 > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information