Bimbadgen Moscato Review and Giveaway

by Seana Smith on June 19, 2013

in Giveaways

Bimbadgen moscato

Here’s a post for wine lovers, keen to try a fresh young wine, just recently bottled by Bimbadgen.

There’s a lovely giveaway of four bottles of this new Moscato below,but first, the tasting.

Now it’s always a great thing to have friends you can rely on.

And when I asked my friend L if she could taste this wine on this blog’s behalf, I knew she wouldn’t let me down.

L is a working mum of twins the same age as mine, and she knows all about the benefits of a glass of wine on a Friday night.

Here’s what she said about this Moscato:

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Don’t let a heart attack be your first sign of heart disease.

There’s a sentence that certainly grabbed my attention.

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I’ve got very personal reasons for wanting to avoid a heart attack…. Four of them, teenage boys aged 16, 13 and my dear boy/girl twins aged seven.

The kids are so young, and I’m so….. not.

I had the twins aged 42, and I’ll be 50 next year.  We joke that I’m old enough to be their granny, but of course, it’s entirely serious.

These children need me alive and healthy for as long as is possible. And I so want to be a granny to their children.

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If you’re thinking of a visit to Luna Park here in Sydney these school holidays, this is the blog post for you!

This Sydney icon has kindly offered three family passes to regular readers of this blog.

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