NZ wine war
Most people know that New Zealand fought alongside OZ and the US against the German empire in WW2,
but almost nobody knows that in 2009 Germany struck back.
Thousands of cartons containing NZ made white wine, were denied entry into Germany because they contained dangerously high levels of copper. (used in white wine for clarification)
NZ wine makers shrugged their shoulders, saying that the Germans are too strict, and set the sails of their ships to the shores of the US of A, where overfed baby boomers are still sipping chilled, NZ made white wine in tall fluted glasses, laced with dangerously high levels of copper...
Disclosure: This poem, although based on a real news story I have read, is filled with inaccuracies like:
I did not verify if the white wine went only to the USA, we may have shipped some to the land of OZ, where we usually ship our young and brightest.
but almost nobody knows that in 2009 Germany struck back.
Thousands of cartons containing NZ made white wine, were denied entry into Germany because they contained dangerously high levels of copper. (used in white wine for clarification)
NZ wine makers shrugged their shoulders, saying that the Germans are too strict, and set the sails of their ships to the shores of the US of A, where overfed baby boomers are still sipping chilled, NZ made white wine in tall fluted glasses, laced with dangerously high levels of copper...
Disclosure: This poem, although based on a real news story I have read, is filled with inaccuracies like:
I did not verify if the white wine went only to the USA, we may have shipped some to the land of OZ, where we usually ship our young and brightest.
