Carrying wine when outback driving

**Bigbjorn** · 30th May 2008, 01:54 PM

Those bladder in cardboard box type containers must survive on rough going as the aboriginal communities were just about paved with the empties and some of those communities are a long travel on bad roads from the liquor store. There must have been thousands of empties littering the roads and communities in 96-97 when I was on a locate and identify project in Mt. Isa region for DSS. Regional slang in North and West Qld for a wine cask is "a gin's handbag".

As well as 4, 5, and 10 litre casks, you can get 20 litre ones. Caterer's packs I think they are called. Size of a small suitcase or school port.

**Chucaro** · 28th March 2009, 09:17 AM

I transfer the wine into the 2 litres apple juice bottles and store the wine in a broccoly foam boxes that you can get them from the local vegy shop.
Perhaps if you use the black currant bottles with the label in not many people realize that it is wine inside

The box keep the wine very cool as long as you do not place the box on the floor of the Defe

Try the Morris red wine is a beauty?

Cheers

**Bushie** · 28th March 2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by streaky

Sorry...off topic but this is killing the curiosity in me.

You have 'dry communities' in Australia? I thought the nation was founded on booze as a center focal point!
I lived in Saudi Arabia for ten years...alcohol is banned and fines are severe. But Australia for gods sake!

Can you explain how you know where the dry areas are? Would it be possible to drive through one by mistake or is it well advertised that booze is forbidden? We have a dry Emirate call "Sahrjah"..but everyone just knows it's a dry place because we simply just know.
Sorry for diverting....

Regards.

S.

Martyn

**harry** · 28th March 2009, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Since this thread started we have now had 2 trips where wine cask bladders wore thru and leaked

The ones (2 leaked, luckily a mate had a couple of empty 3l juice bottles on hand) on the Madigan Line trip I can understand....but one went on our drive to Corowa recently....no rough roads encountered there

I reckon the plastic must be thinner these days

arr, you silly shiela, you just don't drink quick enough.

**Bush65** · 28th March 2009, 08:12 PM

I like a glass of wine at the end of the day's trip. But I try to avoid containers that can't be disposed of in the fire when they are empty - this particularly applies to glass bottles.

So I take cask wine, but have experienced the dreaded leaking bladder on unopened casks. Next long trip, I might investigate ways to pad the bladder to avoid rubbing through.

**Bushie** · 29th March 2009, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

We usually have the ritual burning (of rubbish) at the end of the day before bed

At least it's not choc logs any more

Martyn

**The ho har's** · 29th March 2009, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bushie

At least it's not choc logs any more

Martyn

HHHMMM..............

you are her brother so you should know.....I am not sure I want to

Mrs ho har

**Bushie** · 29th March 2009, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by The ho har's

HHHMMM..............

you are her brother so you should know.....I am not sure I want to

Mrs ho har

Think camping with VERY young kids

Martyn

JamesH · 1st April 2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Bush65

I like a glass of wine at the end of the day's trip. But I try to avoid containers that can't be disposed of in the fire when they are empty - this particularly applies to glass bottles.

So I take cask wine, but have experienced the dreaded leaking bladder on unopened casks. Next long trip, I might investigate ways to pad the bladder to avoid rubbing through.

If you have a case of your favourite then the empty goes where it went when it was full and can be disposed of when you get to the next town. I have not ever lost a bottle of wine due to breakage on rough roads.

Excuse the snobbery but cask stuff does not do it for me and while could drink it I've never seen the need to deviate from wine bottles, spirit bottles and beer bottles.

**PhilipA** · 1st April 2009, 04:23 PM

Ah, my SWMBO loves her Marlborough cleanskins so I have to take a bloody cellar when we go away.
I have a nylon 20litre crate on the floor after removing the back seat and pack the wine on its side separated by newspaper wrap. I squeeze in some Coopers for me. No breakages on the last trip to NT via Savannah Way.
BTW you can now also get 1 litre aseptic cardboard "casks".

The grog restrictions are a pain. I even rang the cop at Borraloola after many minutes on the phone with the AANT. He said that it was OK there but he didn't know about further North.

When we went into Litchfield from the North we came up on the dreaded sign and didn't know what to do. Thought bugger it and drove on, turned the corner into Litchfield and there is the sign "You are now leaving Blah Blah" . What a crock unless you know the area.
Regards Philip A

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