23 May 2020

Last Minute Canberra Chritmas Gifts

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OK it’s Christmas eve and you still haven’t got a gift for that special person, and you want to give a little piece of Canberra… What are some good local Xmas gifts? For one of my extended family, I picked up a bottle of Mount Majura Vineyard 2006 Merlot – you can almost taste the Majura soil (as a mountain biker who rides there, I reckon that’s a good thing).

If you’re looking for ideas and recommendations of what to gift your loved ones, check out our article on The Best Gift Baskets & Hampers in Canberra for a list of our best small, local businesses.

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Thread hijack but as a Majura MTBer it’s disappointing to hear the Majura Rd expansion is going to eat into Majura Pines mtb tracks so much (as well as the camp to the south and presumably a bit of the winery too.)

Given how much support the govt has given to developing the trails at Mt Stromlo, it’s a bit of a disappointing Christmas present.

4711 is actually a nice, classic cologne. I didn’t notice it there, just lots of lurid, stinky, garish muck pongs. I’m sure Red Door was there. phew. People wear too much perfume these days and most of it is very ill-chosen and leaves the wearer smelling exactly like a toilet.

Jonathon Reynolds7:25 pm 24 Dec 08

ant said :

Chemist in Riverside Plaza had a card table out today (with a kid guarding it) covered in perfume.

Those quality QBN fragrances of 4-7-11, Red Door, Old Spice and Blue Stratus?

god I’m bored. Can I go home now?

Chemist in Riverside Plaza had a card table out today (with a kid guarding it) covered in perfume. Trying to catch the blokes who’ve left it to the last minute, I bet.

what’s chritmas? christmas for the illiterate? hahaha

you could always drop by the servo on the way home? oh local.. today’s Canberra Times? I’m sure it’s packed full of interesting stories.

tylersmayhem12:40 pm 24 Dec 08

Merlot can be a fine varietal, it’s just that it became terribly unfashionable after the movie “Sideways”.

And that it also generally tastes like s**t plonk – regardless of how much you spend on it! Great for spaghetti sauce tho!

tylersmayhem12:39 pm 24 Dec 08

Kramer, friends dont let friends drink merlot!

I wholeheartedly agree. Hang on…ARE YOU CHEWING GUM?! 😉

oh, yes. give people wine. perhaps if people asked whether people actually DRANK, they wouldn’t keep giving me wine at christmas. My wife is pretty happy, though.

that said, I do drink occasionally, but will never polish off a bottle of wine in a month.

yass river winery has some good bottles about, but my absolute favorite is the berridale snowy river winery. have to get ab few bottles for some mates there soon.

Merlot can be a fine varietal, it’s just that it became terribly unfashionable after the movie “Sideways”.

What do I know about wine I’m really a beer guy! If the person I was buying for liked beer, I would have got them a keg of Zierholz.

(although that being said, I quite like the Kamberra sparkling which I last had a couple of years ago and haven’t seen since)

Clown Killer10:59 am 24 Dec 08

Kramer, friends dont let friends drink merlot!

Buy a heap of local musicians’ CDs from Landspeed Records.

As a mountain biker who rides there, you are probably already well acquainted with the taste of the Majura soil.

Brew Your Own at Home is open today (Christmas Eve).
Another good idea is to drop by a couple of gourmet delis and get some local goodies to make up a hamper. I already got some at the farmer’s market, but there’s plenty of delis open today.

I went the Reisling, instead. Not that i’ve tasted either. Don’t think it was mount majura, but it was one of the local vineyards.

My hunch was cooler climate wine?

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