The postcard from Madeira read: "When all is lostFar out at seaReach for a Madeira"It was written in sparkling gold "Texta" and posted to Mathew & Flinders Wine Merchants, Fairhaven, Victoria by Georgia Best (attorney at law.) Thus beginning the private joke which would become the less than private "Lost Wines Degustation Society."Also featuring the customers, staff, and family and friends of the shop, Mathew & Flinders Wine Merchants. Wine folk all, with tales to tell. Tales of places sun drenched in wine. Beach side cafes and Languedoc hills. A novel about friendship, love and longing, exploring the concept of belonging in this country, in this town and in the "Lost Wines Degustation Society." Brien Cole is a winemaker from the Mornington Peninsula.
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The Lost Wines Degustation Society: Book 1: A Postcard from Madeira
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- A Postcard from Madeira
- 1. The Lost Wines Degustation Society
- 2. Juliet de Courmartin introduces herself
- 3. Georgia Best, an introduction.
- 4. An Imaginary Atlas of Mathew’s childhood
- 5. Georgia & Mathew, Interactions, Intersections.
- 6. The girl in the red one-piece (1984 Summer of)
- 6. The girl in the red one-piece (1984 Summer of)
- 8. It’s a big ask
- 9. Amontillado in the Afternoon.
- 10. Mother and Daughter by two.
- 11. “Chestnut Teal”
- 12. Pruning Palominos (Winter of 1989)
- 13. Dominic Narboni (Pied Noir)
- 14. Lake Mungo Shores (Autumn of 1990.)
- 15. We Should Go
- 16. Jerez Spain (Easter 1991)
- 17. Saint-Guiraud, France. (Spring of 1991)
- 18. Sete Harbour, Café Terrace (Late Spring of 1991)
- 19. Vanishing France, (The New York Times Book Co. 1975)
- 20. Georgia Best Parisienne.: (In the summer of 1990 one year prior to Megs arrival)
- 21. Dot McKensie, girl from SCEGS: (Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School)
- 22. Paris Place St.Michel (Summer of 1991)
- 23. Indigo Winery, Chiltern. (Late Summer of 1992)
- 24. Vintage Indigo Wines, (Summer & Autumn of 1992)
- 25. Mickey and the Kid (Winter of 1992)
- 26. Black Range, Brown Deck, Red Ploughed Paddock
- 27. Summer heat. (Lake Catani Shores)
- 28. Winter Snow Mount Buffalo Peaks (Winter of 1993)
- 29. Dijon France versus Muscat a Petit Grains
- 30. Jules Dupont Again (1st. person singular)
- 31. George Seurat on the Riverbank (Spring of 1995)
- 32. Cultural Differences Aside
- 33. Sete sans Dominic (Late Spring of 1995)
- 34. The Low Pyrenees Limoux
- 35. High Pyrenees Caurterets (Late Mountain Spring 1995)
- 36. “I do” It is Traditional. (Late Spring of 1995)
- 37. They named the bloody wine “Juliet”
- 38. Chance Encounters Pilat Plage
- 39. I was there I tell you (Present minus 16 months)
- 40. Couta Boat Yacht Club deck (Autumn present minus 12 Months)
- 41. Plans and Preparation
- 42. North Head Beach Late Morning Saturday
- 43. An Autumnal Dinner
- 44. I never quote Mathew (1st. person singular)
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