Due to my current health kick I've swapped the Leo and Ya Dong chasers for the occasional leisurely glass of red wine after an early evening Leo. Surely wine has less calories than beer and that Ya Dong is clearly just bad for you.

Yesterday at Makro I discovered a new red wine... there were 3 litre boxes of 'Gossips' from Australia. The Aussies usually make OK wine and it was 40 Baht cheaper than my usual box of Mont Clair... what's not to like? I wish I could find 3 litre boxes of Peter Vella which is good stuff but it only seems to come in these 1.5 litre bag things.

Anyway, I'll tell you what's not to like... it's fukkin horrible. I'd like to say it was just a bit sharp but OK after a couple of glasses but that's not the case. It's not often that I wish I had a glass of Mont Clair... but tonight I really did. I'm just lucky that my taste buds have been killed off by Ya Dong.

I'm having a couple while trying to cook HW's fancy spinach with cream cheese and coconut cream recipe... which I spent half an hour looking for in the 'Dinner' thread before discovering it in the 'Lunch' thread instead.



Further research showed that this 'Gossips' wine is in fact a 'Fruit Wine Product' (whatever that may mean) and it's only 10%. I'm going back to Mont Clair once I get through this disgusting stuff.