Looking tits up in the nanny state.

What are we teaching our children?

In the good old days, before iPhones were invented 15 years ago, children learned language, idiom, subtleties, euphemisms and double entendres from teachers and the playground, mostly from big kids.

We learned what was naughty, sometimes the hard way, like using the c-word at dinner and suddenly fnding yourself on the foor with a sore ear,

Munda Wines Kaurna Country (colonial name Blewitt Springs) Syrah, 2022, $45 . Munda is an indigenous run wine business and also “the Wirangu & Kokatha word for land” and in indigenous culture, you look after the land. I wonder if Meta and which was ringing. These episodes were valuable lessons and knowledge of such words added a richness, colour and emphasis to conversations and communications, although admittedly Ms L. does seem to emphasise more than most.

However this level of sophistication is denied us in our most common form of communication, our phones, because manufacturers have decided such words are beyond for wine, this is a smart syrah, which feels lighter than its 14 per cent. 9.3/10.

Munda Wines Walgalu Country (Tumbarumba) Chardonnay 2023, $45. ‘Munda’ is a little older than the French term terroir, probably by around 60,000 years, but the pale and block them when using voice-to-text, auto-correct, swyping or however it is you get your enormously important opinions, clever ideas and invidious travelogue into the ‘blabosphere’.

Platforms which allowed the Christchurch massacre to be live-streamed, fake nudes of everyone from celebrities to school friends, and the elevation of Donald Trump beyond narcissistic, divisive, weirdo, entitled, rich guy to president of the it right, and this shows it’s been worth the wait. Crisp and bright and a little bit nutty. The pick of the bunch for me.

9.5/10.

Munda Wines Ngadjuri + Peramangk Country (Vine Vale) Grenache, 2023, $45. ‘Vine Vale’ is a little pocket of the

United States while telling more lies than Pinocchio every day won’t allow us to type the word ‘tit’, let alone show one, unless it is pornography.

You have to key in fnch, which is not, strictly speaking, a tit, to go to the twitcher’s forum.

Phones won’t allow other critters either like a female dog or alternative names for roosters unless you go to a porn site.

The ‘F’ word is frequently fobbed off on your phone name. Perhaps residents could change it back to Ngadjuri and Peramangk. This grenache is a bit old-school too, bucking the lighter trend, for which we should be grateful. 9.4/10.

Lerida Estate Canberra District Cullerin Pinot Noir Rosé 2024, $44. Am for friendlier, feathered forms, such as duck, get ducked and duck off, which, unexpectedly, usually conveys the same message.

My phone won’t allow cocaine, but will allow beheadings in Saudi Arabia, I am told, and for Russians to infuence our elections, and all kinds of news except actual news, which we can no longer determine anyway because someone with orange hair has decried that that too is fake.

Sadly we have lost the group no doubt, but will it let you use the word pinot? A suitably sunny beverage with a real ‘red’ thread. 9.4/10.

Lerida Estate Canberra District Single Vineyard Pinot Noir, 2023, $?? Actually, I take that back, this is a very alluring and very ‘pinot’ pinot, but subtlety of language to American evangelical, religious high tech and AI, which at least should lead to some interesting interpretations of the Bible, which thankfully, has a mostly favourable view of wine, depending on which branch your Facebook feed prefers.

I found one called ‘Our Lady Of Blessed Indulgence’ who recommended these:

District Cullerin Viognier, 2023, $44. There are few wines more interesting than viognier, apart from posh viogniers, which have as much going on as all other wines put together, which accurately