Depressing or what?

[tomstevenson]

If you lived in a dome on a mountain ChittyChattyKathy, you'd end up talking to gnomes. Have you been there? They've got life-sized gnomes in the grounds and each one looks like a member of the family. These are bright and lovely people, but definitely loopy and I've told them so. I've also suggested that they're giving the wrong impression with gnomes, even if they are only on the cheaper non-vintage, but no hope of persuading them otherwise. They'll either be successful their way or go down laughing their gnomelike heads off. By all accounts they broke even 1998/9.

If Mountain Dome's best cuvees (the best so far is the 1997) are too expensive, you can always nip down to Outlook and buy Joel Tefft's Sparkling Pinot Meunier Rosé for $14.95.

Wineoweenie and Innkeeper: thanks for the kind words.

Tom