Bottle of wine


Daily Proposition: Drink a glass of history

Age is no barrier to occasionally enjoying the good things life has to offer. Michael Vaughan uncorks some history with a 1977 Taltarni cabernet sauvignon.

Woolworths asks: how can we enforce grog limits at the checkout?

Under the new alcohol regime in the NT, any licensee or employee of a take-away bottle shop commits an offence if, when selling alcohol with more than 1,350ml of ‘pure’ alcohol content, they do not verify the purchaser’s identity. But how can police and retailers possibly enforce this? writes Bob Gosford.