The Mount Beerwah Avocado

Not to be mistaken for the avant garde
fruit which instances the 2004 Barossa
Shiraz, cautiously marketed and
attractively presented: its creator, Grant
Burge would agree that this particular
avocado has yet to reach its potential.

I am drinking from the bottle, mindless of
impressions created imbibing his wine
that way. Worthy of the abbreviation, there
is no glass which celebrates a better flavour
than that which emanates from having
sipped directly from the maker’s lips.

A je ne sais quoi suggesting I like wine
says in knowing what I like I understand.
This avocado is my poetic metaphor, be it
Hass, Sharwil, or one of a thousand or more
from my trees. I know, I created it. This is my
metier: I used to know more than is fair

or fashionable for bending wills, I may
still but don’t need to. Here is my child.
The fruit which has suborned the private
face of the avocado World is without
doubt the Mount Beerwah Avocado.
Try one tomorrow…
© I.D. Carswell 2006

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