Saturday Joanne and I spent an enjoyable evening at Gene and Amelia Brandenburg's home, joined by their grandson, Christian, and Joe and Hope Esposito. Gene had a new Australian red winefor us to try: 19 Crimes, "Each declared by His Majesty to be punishable on conviction by transportation." The label on the back of the bottle explained that

This is well and good, but what were those 19 crimes? As the evening went on, we learned more about them, because one is listed on each cork. For example, number 10 is "stealing fish from a pondor river," while number 7 is "setting fire to underwood."

Since there is no way to know what crime is mentioned a cork, we wondered how many bottles one would need to open to get a full set of nineteen. Fortunately, the first bottle Gene opened was thenumismatic key to the set. It had crime number 14, "counterfeiting the copper coin."

The ribs and salads were really great, but I'll probably remember the wine longer.