Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[Sedimental]

Hot evening. Mrs Sed demands a refreshing white. Something grassy perhaps?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Well, given that you can't get bottles that large, where did you get the little llamas? And the toy couch from?

 

[Sedimental]

Love Friday night. Cricket and a chewy shiraz.

 

[Sedimental]

Footy too. Looks like we need another red. Young but very approachable.

 

[Sedimental]

Well, given that you can't get bottles that large, where did you get the little llamas? And the toy couch from?

They're alpacas. Camelid family like the larger llamas. 'Pacas are bred for fleece, and are good at warding off dingos or wild dogs. Often used to protect sheep. Llamas are traditionally used for transport. Think small mountain going camel! Their soft pads don't chop up the paddock like hooved animals and being browsers they nibble off the grass rather than ripping it out. They're personable pets and save me hours of mowing and whipper-snipping! We bought the outdoor chairs from friends who were moving house. Philippe Starck from Space in Brisbane. Would have been horrendously expensive new!!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

They're alpacas. Camelid family like the larger llamas. 'Pacas are bred for fleece, and are good at warding off dingos or wild dogs. Often used to protect sheep. Llamas are traditionally used for transport. Think small mountain going camel! Their soft pads don't chop up the paddock like hooved animals and being browsers they nibble off the grass rather than ripping it out. They're personable pets and save me hours of mowing and whipper-snipping! We bought the outdoor chairs from friends who were moving house. Philippe Starck from Space in Brisbane. Would have been horrendously expensive new!!

OK OK enough of that - what are are they like on the barbie? I'm thinkin' you'd need a bit more meat on them before you hung one up but might be wrong.

 

[TheRealTMA]

They're alpacas. Camelid family like the larger llamas. 'Pacas are bred for fleece, and are good at warding off dingos or wild dogs. Often used to protect sheep. Llamas are traditionally used for transport. Think small mountain going camel! Their soft pads don't chop up the paddock like hooved animals and being browsers they nibble off the grass rather than ripping it out. They're personable pets and save me hours of mowing and whipper-snipping! We bought the outdoor chairs from friends who were moving house. Philippe Starck from Space in Brisbane. Would have been horrendously expensive new!!

I knew that they were alpacas. I did. I did! Yes I did. I did.

So, how did you breed miniature alpacas then?

 

[Sedimental]

OK OK enough of that - what are are they like on the barbie? I'm thinkin' you'd need a bit more meat on them before you hung one up but might be wrong.

Mrs Sed would have conniptions if I attempted this:!: In Peru they take the fleece to about age 6 and then, when the fleece starts to become coarser, they knock them over and feast. By all reports very good on the chew, being grass fed etc. Malbec anyone?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Mrs Sed would have conniptions if I attempted this:!: In Peru they take the fleece to about age 6 and then, when the fleece starts to become coarser, they knock them over and feast. By all reports very good on the chew, being grass fed etc. Malbec anyone?

Would be nice and chewy at 6yrs of age after popping out a few lambs. They call them lambs? Alapacaettes? Tell Mrs Sed an ex coughy said anything that wanders around the paddock chewin' grass sooner or later has a date with a dinner plate - sooner rather than later too!

 

[Sedimental]

Junior burger = cria

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Junior burger = cria

Well I never - and they have Freesian ones too:

 

[Daver6]

Hot evening. Mrs Sed demands a refreshing white. Something grassy perhaps?
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The food in these photos keeps getting more and more under-cooked

 

[Captain Halliday]

Love Friday night. Cricket and a chewy shiraz.
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the 2006 vintage of that was remarkable IMHO. My last bottle disappeared on New Years Eve

 

[Sedimental]

Well I never - and they have Freesian ones too:

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This long haired one is a suri. Ours are huacayas. For a laugh google "surfing alpaca".
Back to wine. Big or small?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

For a laugh google "surfing alpaca".

Don't need to - just knowing somebody has those wandering around their paddock gave me my daily laugh - I'm tippin' those things would be enough to drive a man to drink!

j/k of course

 

[blackcat20]

This long haired one is a suri. Ours are huacayas. For a laugh google "surfing alpaca".
Back to wine. Big or small?
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A few years ago I was involved in a research project on alpaca fleece...

 

[Captain Halliday]

A few years ago I was involved in a research project on alpaca fleece...

We're all the spots on the wine research project taken?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Little French burgundy to go with raw pork. Nice weight, silky but bitter tannins, no great depth. Needs a few hours decanted. Maybe a few more years for next one.

 

[UpInTheAir:)]

Little French burgundy to go with raw pork. Nice weight, silky but bitter tannins, no great depth. Needs a few hours decanted. Maybe a few more years for next one.
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Pick me

 

[TheRealTMA]

Pick me

Can you cope with Reidel glasses and raw meat though?