Colloquialway of referring to a 4 litre cask of wine and a brand name wine sold in Australia
Cask wine sold in 4 litre boxes. Usually third press wine of questionable quality and as such has a higher preservative level.
old advertising campaign "where did you hide your Coolibah"
When asked for in a 'bottle shop/ off license' usually referred to as "the lady in the boat" or as a 'briefcase' referring in a derogatory the status of the person whom consumes such poor quality wine.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)