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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:45 pm 
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Maynard's 10yo Tawny Port, Aldi, Christmas offer £9.99

I was given a bottle of this recently, anyone familiar with it? Very little on tinterweb.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:55 pm 
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:24 pm 
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Explain your metophoric pic B?

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:54 am 
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:57 pm 
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Ah, get it.

I havent had a wine gum for years, thought Rowntrees made them.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 3:22 pm 
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Ah, get it.

I havent had a wine gum for years, thought Rowntrees made them


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 10:31 am 
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That must be it.

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In 1896 the brothers formed the Maynards sweet company.
Ten years later, in 1906, the expanding concern moved a mile or so to a new factory in Vale Road, Harringay. The new factory site, below an embankment of The New River, permitted clean Hertfordshire spring water to be used in production, whilst the proximity of the Lee Navigation and numerous railways facilitated the easy, cheap shipping of the required coal, sugar, and gelatin. London itself provided a ready market of some ten million people, and the world’s largest commercial port was within five miles.

Charles Gordon, heir to the confectionery firm, suggested to his father that they diversify into making “wine gums”, an idea that outraged Charles senior, a strictly teetotal Methodist. Nevertheless, Charles Riley gradually came round to the idea when his son persuaded him that the projected new sweets would not contain alcohol. Maynard’s Wine Gums were introduced in 1909.

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