ANDREW & HEATHER PATTISON’S

WINEANDMUSIC NEWS NEWS FROM BURKE & WILLS WINERY in Victoria’s Heathcote wine region.

APRIL 2019

2019 DIARY DATESJune 8th, 9th & 10th

Heathcote On Show & Winter Wine & Dine in Redesdale

Sunday July 14th, from 2.30 pmAndrew’s 70th Birthday Concert

at The Caravan Music Club, 1 Victor Rd,East Bentleigh (The South Oakleigh Club)

October 5th and 6thHeathcote Wine & Food Festival

November 1st to 4thTroubadour Venue

at The Maldon Folk FestivalSat & Sun Nov 23rd, 24th

The Verandah Mini-Festivalat Burke & Wills Winery

and in 2020 ...Sunday January 12th

The Verandah Folk Clubat Burke & Wills Winery

January 24th - 27thTroubadour Venue

at Newstead Live! music festivalMarch 6th - 9th

The Burke & Wills Folk FestivalWe present music half a dozen times a year in 3 different formats, all very relaxed and informal, but for a listening audience, not background music! ... 1) Marquee concerts, with allocated seating and a 2 or 3 course meal, 2) Verandah Specials, even more informal, semi outdoors under a verandah and shade with a simpler 2 course barbecue, and 3) The Verandah Folk Club - an occasional folk club format with both booked performers and open stage where anyone can sing 2 or 3 songs .. usually a couple of times between Christmas and Easter, so ... more details in the next edition of this newsletter. Also the annual Burke & Wills Folk Festival in March, in the marquee, and the November Verandah Mini-Festival under the verandah and shade.

BOOKINGS, INFORMATION for all Burke & Wills events:ph: (03) 5425 5400 or email:

wineandmusic@bigpond.comUpdates and more info at:.

www.wineandmusic.netBurke & Wills Winery

89 Coombe’s Lane, Mia Mia, 3444 - 101 kms NW of Melbourne on the

Burke & Wills Track (Lancefield to Mia Mia road - yes, it’s bitumen), 31 kms NW of Lancefield, 7 kms. south of Mia Mia.

MELWAY X909 H6, VicRoads 60 B2Sat Nav Lat -37.047190, Lon 144.606172

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The Best Heathcote Shiraz!On the Sunday morning of last October’s

Heathcote Wine and Food Festival we were delighted to be approached by representatives of The Heathcote Wine Appreciation group who handed us a certificate that said that the Burke & Wills 2016 Vat 1 Shiraz was the winner of Best Wine in the Open Shiraz Section for the 2018 Festival ! This group of people come to the festival each year and taste as many wines as they can, then each purchase a bottle of the wine they consider the best, and then together over Saturday night’s dinner they all try all of those purchases and vote on the overall best wine.

So Vat 1 rates again, after the 2015 won five trophies including the inaugural Premier’s Trophy for Best Victorian Wine.

We haven’t released the 2016 to the trade yet, even though we had it available at last year’s Heathcote Wine and Food Festival because the 2014 and 2015 had both sold out. Ideally we like our reds to be 4 years old before we release them, as we find they suddenly seem to open up around that age. We have, however, listed the 2016 among our currently available wines on the back page of this newsletter, but we recommend cellaring until at least 2020 or 2021 to start seeing it at its best.

Sunday July 14th ....

Andrew’s 70th Birthday Concert Party

at The Caravan Music Club, East Bentleigh.

The actual birthday is on Tuesday July 9th, but the party is on Sunday afternoon, with a five hour concert featuring a great line-up of musicians and entertainers who have played a part in Andrew’s life and career in music over the past forty years...........

GLENN CARDIER, GREG CHAMPION, MARTIN PEARSON, PAUL WOOKEY, ROSS RYAN, DEAN & CARRUTHERS,

PENNY LARKINS, KHRISTIAN MIZZI, MANDY CONNELL & LAYLA FIBBINS,

and probably a couple more.

Music starts at 2.30, and if you want lunch beforehand you can book a table in the bistro in the next room. The food is good and reasonably priced, as is the wine list. Book on 9579 4855

The ticket price for the concert is $45, all of which is going to the musicians and production costs, and you need to book on line through the Caravan Club - www.caravanmusic.com.au

Book sooner rather than later as it may well sell out early with this line-up!

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Booking for the various events mentioned in this newsletter:Bookings for all Winery events -

ph 5425 5400, or email wineandmusic@bigpond.comNovember’s Verandah Mini-Festival ...

Saturday November 23 ... Michael Waugh with Rich Davies and Craig Kelly and at least one other in concert at Burke & Wills Winery.

Show starts 4.00 pm. $45. Optional 2 course barbecue dinner afterwards at approx 7.00pm $30.

Sunday November 24th - Graeme Connors in concert, plus at least one other act

Lunch & Show $75, Show only $45. Concert will start before lunch, at approx 11.15. Lunch from 12.15 to 1.30. Graeme on stage at 2.00 pmWeekend Package: both Saturday and Sunday shows and meals $140.

Sunday January 12th 2019 - The Verandah Folk Club at the wineryDetails to be announced closer to the event. Lunch from 12.15 $25.

$20 Concert from 1.30 featuring booked acts plus floor spots from all-comers.

March 8th to 11th 2019 - The Burke & Wills Folk Festival.Entertainment from 5.00 pm Friday to 10.30 pm Monday.

Weekend tickets $125, Day Tickets $50For all of the above events book now then pay on the day.

Other events:Sunday July 14th - Andrew’s 70th birthday concert party at The Caravan Club, ... 2.30 to 7.30 concert $45, bookings www.caravanmusic.com.au

Lunch bookings in the adjoining bistro ph 9579 4855October 5th & 6th - The Heathcote Wine and Food Festival.

Over 200 wines to taste, gourmet foods, live music.Info & bookings: www.heathcotewinegrowers.com.au/festival

November 1st - 4th - The Maldon Folk Festival . We will be there hosting The Troubadour venue and our wines will be there. On line bookings:

www.ticketebo.com.au/maldon-folk-festival/maldon-folk-festival-2019.htmlJanuary 24th - 27th - Newstead Live Music Festival. We will be hosting The

Troubadour stage once again, with some of our wines at the bar. On line bookings: www.newsteadlive.com

For the above 3 festivals you will almost certainly be able to get tickets at the events, but there are earlybird discounts for on line bookings.

GATEFOLD DOUBLE ORDER: 94939 QUANTITY: 500 FINISH/STOCK: STANDARD

Country Folk Sing

MICkEY NEWBURY

Bill Chambers • Doug Ashdown • Eric Bogle • Gina Jeffreys • Graeme Connors Greg Champion • Khristian Mizzi • Kim Cheshire • Kristina Olsen • Mike McClellan

Peter Daffy • Peter Titchener • Rod McCormack • Suzette Herft

1. Wish I Was Kristina Olsen 4:502. Frisco Depot Rod McCormack 7:003. Lovers Doug Ashdown 3:184. How I Love Them Old Songs Kim Cheshire 2:455. How Many Times (Must The Piper Be Paid) Khristian Mizzi 5:576. I Still Love You (After All These Years) Gina Jeffreys 3:297. Heaven Help The Child Eric Bogle 5:148. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye Mike McClellan 2:129. Swiss Cottage Place Peter Titchener 3:3510. Sweet Memories Peter Daffy 4:0711. San Francisco Mabel Joy Bill Chambers 3:3712. Sail Away Graeme Connors 2:4913. Baby Why You Been Gone So Long Greg Champion 3:1114. American Trilogy Suzette Herft 4:54

All songs written by Mickey Newbury, published by Acuff Rose. Executive producer Andrew Pattison. Produced by Rod McCormack and Andrew Pattison. Mastered by Jeff McCormack. CD cover design by Ramona Tilley. Painting of Mickey Newbury by Heather McCormack.

© 2018 country folk sing Mickey Newbury www.festivalfolk.com

All profits from the sale of country folk sing Mickey Newbury will go to The Troubadour Foundation www.thetroubadourfoundation.com.au Everyone involved with the production of this project has donated their time and effort (with the exception of engineering and manufacture). This project would not have been possible without the wonderful group of singers and musicians who donated their time and their recordings to the project, both in tribute to Mickey Newbury and to support The Troubadour Foundation. Please refer to the insert for further information about the artists - and go to see their concerts and buy their CDs, they are fabulous.

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About Mickey NewburyMickey Newbury was one of the all-time most successful songwriters in Nashville, and was the third biggest earner for publishers Acuff Rose, after Hank Williams and Don Gibson.

Originally from Houston, Texas, as a teenager he sang tenor for a moderately successful vocal group called The Embers, who opened for several famous performers including Sam Cooke and Johnny Cash. But he put his musical career on hold and joined the Air Force at age nineteen, for a four year stint that included a lengthy spell in England. On return to the USA he set his sights on a career as a songwriter and before long he was in Nashville and signed to Acuff Rose. Soon after Don Gibson had a country hit with Newbury’s Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings, and then Tom Jones had a worldwide hit with the song. Two years later, in the same week Newbury had four top five songs across four different charts, Pop/Rock, Easy Listening, Country and R&B, the latter three being number ones. This feat has not been repeated; and it also shows that Mickey Newbury was not really a country artist: if anything he could be seen as folk, but his style is really unclassifiable. He was a magnificent singer with a huge range, and his albums were works of art, but not big sellers, in part because of their eclecticism and also his growing disdain with the music business, especially in Nashville. But as a writer he remained huge, with over 1000 covers of his songs, by artists ranging from Elvis to Andy Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis to Joan Baez, Kenny Rogers to Solomon Burke, etc.

I had the great good fortune to bring Mickey to Australia for his only tour here, in 1984. On the four nights that he performed at my Melbourne venue, The Troubadour, I have never seen so much love flow from an audience to a performer. They all felt Mickey was a personal friend who had helped them through troubled times with his songs. And he was totally charming throughout the tour, a true Southern Gentleman.

Sadly Mickey died at age 62 in 2002 from emphysema. I miss him and his music. Andrew Pattison

Notes from executive producer Andrew PattisonCountry folk sing Mickey Newbury is our sixth compilation of artists celebrating the talents of an influential songwriter, following on from festival folk sing Gordon Lightfoot (2016), Judy Small (2013), Bob Dylan (2012), Eric Bogle (2011) and Joni Mitchell (2010). Marina Hurley came up with the concept and produced the first four albums and then assisted me to pay homage to two of my all-time favourite songwriters and singers, Gordon Lightfoot and, now, Mickey Newbury. These albums serve at least two purposes: to bring some great songs from over a generation ago to a new audience, and, as long as enough are purchased, to inject some funds into a charity called The Troubadour Foundation.

About The Troubadour FoundationBy purchasing this CD you are furthering the mission of The Troubadour Foundation (est. 2007) ‘to provide assistance and encouragement for the sustainability of Australian folk culture’. The Foundation’s initial funding came as a bequest from a small group of people who had enjoyed many folk festivals and wanted to give something back. Since then the future of the Foundation and its funding has relied totally on donations and its own fundraising, in particular the production and sale of CDs like this one. The Foundation has helped several musicians with the production of their own CDs, has assisted with overseas travel for international performances, has contributed to the purchase of a country church to be turned into an arts centre, and has helped musicians replace instruments lost in burglaries and bush fires, as well as helping out in a variety of cases of hardship. It also regularly presents awards to members of Australia’s folk music community who have made outstanding contributions to Australian folk.

November 23rd & 24th .... our special Verandah Concerts Weekend mini-festival, with special guestGRAEME CONNORS as well as MICHAEL WAUGH with his trio, and two or three more to be confirmed closer to the date.

Graeme, who will be playing on the Sunday afternoon, accompanied by Gary Carruthers and Jeff Camilleri, is one of the most successful artists on Australia’s country music scene, having won fourteen Golden Guitars at Tamworth, and having had a dozen songs recorded by Slim Dusty. However, he is not really country, more a contemporary singer songwriter whose biggest influences were Randy Newman and John Prine, and whose first album was produced by an impressed Kris Kristofferson after Graeme had been the opening act on a Kristofferson tour. So perhaps think more along the lines of John Denver, who also recorded one of Graeme’s songs. He first came to my attention in the 1980s when he released his ‘North’ album, and tasteful ABC Radio presenter (and winemaker!) David Paterson played the whole album on his nationwide late night show. The songs ‘I Head A Little Further North Each Year’ and ‘Let The Cane Fields Burn’ have stayed with me ever since that night, and Graeme has remained a real favourite. Michael Waugh is now well known to our Winery and Troubadour crowd, the youngest grandfather I have come across, and although a musician of many years standing, a relative newcomer to the folk / singer-songwriter fold. Since he won the Roddy Read award for the best new song at The Maldon Folk Festival about six years ago his career has gone ahead in leaps and bounds, including a nomination for Best New Talent at Tamworth, his album The

Asphalt And The Oval winning Best Folk & Roots Album in The Age Music Awards and his song They Don’t Let The Girls In The Game being selected as one of the ten best songs of 2018 by The Australian. Michael’s third album, The Weir, will be released in the middle of this year, and he will be touring to launch it around the time of this concert weekend, which will be a sort of mini-festival, featuring at least three other performers as well as Graeme and Michael. Keep an eye on our website www.wineandmusic.net closer to the event for full details. And yes, there is free camping if you want to stay overnight.

The lastest release in the ‘Festival Folk Sing’ CD series, although this time it’s

‘Country Folk Sing’

Following on from the very successful tribute albums to Joni Mitchell, Eric Bogle, Bob Dylan, Judy Small, Gordon Lightfoot and a folk version of Dark Side Of The Moon is this special tribute to one of Nashville’s all time great songwriters, Mickey Newbury. Some of his best known songs are performed by Mike McClellan, Gina Jeffreys, Bill Chambers, Peter Daffy, Rod McCormack, Graeme Connors, Suzette Herft, Eric Bogle, Kim Cheshire, Peter Titchener, Doug Ashdown, Khristian Mizzi, Greg Champion and Kristina Olsen. Songs include American Trilogy, Sweet Memories, San Francisco Mabel Joy, Baby Why You Been Gone So Long, and How I Love Them Old Songs.

All proceeds from the sale of the CDs go to The Troubadour Foundation, a charity which exists to encourage and support folk music and musicians in Australia. The CD is available for $25 + $3 packing and postage - email wineandmusic@bigpond.com .

Mr. Burke’s column

Happy carrots everyone! Greetings from the dust bowl of the winery pad-docks, (which look nothing like this photo taken the last time it rained!) There isn’t a lot of grass around here at the moment – Heather has even been cutting us some green stuff from the

vineyard each day - not as good as carrots ! - and it would save her a lot of time if she just let us all in to help ourselves, but she seems to think we wouldn’t know which bits not to eat …..… (a bit of a control freak really! – rumour has it she even has cellar door customers bringing their own nibbles! .... But that might have something to do with them hearing about her cooking……….)

And the hay shed is pretty empty, I reckon if we play our cards right she’ll start adding wine to our rations any day – I keep hinting! And Andrew has had to get us a couple of new big drinking troughs .... apparently they make more water than our old bathtubs.

The vines did their best this vintage but the dry start to the spring has seen them be a bit pathetic in how many grapes they bothered with! Low yields everywhere, Andrew says, but quality is great even if there isn’t going to be much of it…. so you’d all better get you orders in early! or I won’t share!

And I’ve got a secret! Andrew is turning 70 (secrets aren’t any fun unless you share them!) And that means I get to run the show again while everyone goes and parties in Melb – And I think he invited all of you, but you prob-ably have to pay… it’s that type of party .... someone said it’s at the Caravan Club…… I’ve seen caravans and they aren’t very big ……so if I was you I’d think twice about go-ing to a party in one…….

There also seems to be an extra redhead in the stable here….. I’m not allowed (ha ha) to say anything about her……… but Heather seems to like her too…. So I guess it’s alright (I’ll sneak a bit more in about her next time – she’s a year older than Andrew .... and a Pom to boot! ) No, it’s not Angel, who’s almost a redhead and looks a bit too cute at sunset. (Actually, she’s too bloody cute all of the time, and gets all of the attention these days)

Thanks Pam for the photo by the way.

Where’s mine?Seeya, Clomp.

Friday - Monday March 6th - 9th 2020...

The Burke & Wills Folk Festival

This is our annual party weekend. Well, it’s a bit more like a 4 day garden party packed full of music than a festival. It’s smaller and more intimate than almost any other folk festival, with just one stage, 15 or so acts, and approx. 150 festival-goers in the audience. The performers are world class.

We keep the event for those that really want to be here, i.e the regulars and, if there is room, friends that they have recommended the event to. This way we get to keep the fabulous, discerning, understanding and helpful crowd that comes every year and feels it has some ownership of the event.

So if you have been before, and / or if you are reading this because you are on our mailing list, then consider yourself invited, but make a booking soon, as we are usually booked out before Christmas. Well, the camping will be full; we may have a little bit of room left for day trippers, but no promises, so don’t delay. (We’ll keep a waiting list, in case of any cancellations.)

Weekend tickets will again be $125, day tickets $50, and there is no charge for camping. Meals and snacks available all day, and self catering in the camping ground is OK too. Music goes from approx 5.00 pm Friday through to around 10.30 pm Monday. Book now, pay on the weekend.

At the time this is going to the printers we don’t know who will be performing, but you’ll be able to find out closer to the event by looking on our website www.wineandmusic.net.

Vin Garbutt’s Finale CD“All The Very Best”

This was released at this year’s Burke & Wills Folk Festival, and is now available through The Troubadour Foundation. The CD captures Vin’s final ever performance in Australia, an hour long concert on the last night of the 2016 Burke & Wills Folk Festival. It was just by chance that Marina Hurley connected her Zoom digital recorder to our sound desk, little knowing that we would never see nor hear Vin again. He died 15 months later, from heart troubles that had been plaguing him for a dozen years.

In true Vin style, in this concert he only manages four songs, the rest being his unique chat and hilariously daft story telling, so it is a wonderful momento for all of us who have had the joy of seeing Vin live.

The CD is produced by The Troubadour Foundation, a charity that strives to support and assist the folk arts in Australia. All proceeds from the sale of the CDs in Australia will go to The Foundation and will then be passed on to folk artists and folk projects to help with myriad projects, situations and calamaties. To purchase a copy ($25 + $3 p&p) just phone or email us.

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Burke & Wills Winery was established in the southern end of the Heathcote wine region in 2004, as a follow on from our previous Lancefield Winery in the neighbouring Macedon Ranges region. We still process fruit from both regions.The winery was selected as one of the ‘Ten

Dark Horses’ of the Australian wine industry in the 2012 James Halliday Wine Companion.We produce a wide range of boutique wines

in small quantities, under three labels, Burke & Wills for one hundred per cent Heathcote wines, Dig Tree for very affordable local wines especially designed for wine bars and bistros, and the Pattison family reserve label which is kept for special releases of unique wines. The cellar door is always open on concert days at the winery, and visits are welcome at any other time, but phone first on 5425 5400 to make sure someone is home.CURRENT GENERAL RELEASE WINES ...

Dig Tree Pinot Gris 2018 - nearby Harcourt fruit, crisp mouth-filling fresh nashi pear flavours. $20 /$220Dig Tree Heathcote Viognier 2014 - fresh floral aromas with apricot & peach flavours. $20 / $220Dig Tree Heathcote Viognier 2013 - late-picked spatlese vintage with natural sweetness. $18 / $195Dig Tree 2012 Merlot - grown at Colbinabbin, north Heathcote, rich soft style. Very popular! $20 / $220Dig Tree 2012 Cabernets - very approachable and fruity Merlot Cabernet Petit Verdot Malbec blend. Similar to The Aristocrat but less new oak. $20 / $220Burke & Wills 2013 Vat 2 Heathcote Shiraz - big, ripe rich Shiraz from our Redesdale vineyard and matured in American oak. Juicy black cherry / berry fruits. 94 points from James Halliday. Silver medal at the 2018 Heathcote Wine Show. $28 / $300Burke & Wills ‘Camp 5’ 2013 Shiraz Cab. Merlot -smooth yet firm fruit driven blend from our area at the southern, cooler end of the Heathcote region. 50% Shiraz with the Cab Franc, Cab Sauv. & Merlot plus small amounts of Petit Verdot and Malbec adding sweet fruit to the middle palate. Drinking extremely well now and a real bargain at this price. $20 / $220Mr Burke’s Favourite Big Red 2017 - A big but easy drinking Heathcote Shiraz (15% + alc.) jam-packed with sweet fruity grape flavours and the appealing aromas of toasty new American and French oak. The follow on to the incredibly popular 2015 version. Selected by Mr Burke (Clomp). $20 / $200!

Limited Release / Specialist WinesPattison Family Reserve ‘Macedon’ ... classy methode Champenoise Pinot/Chardonnay $30 / $350Burke & Wills 2015 Sparkling Shiraz .... luscious and far too easy to drink! $28 / $300Burke & Wills 2017 Gewurztraminer .. floral, spicey and fruity with a crisp dry finish. $28 / $300Pattison Family Reserve 2016 Chardonnay - complex elegant barrel-fermented White Burgundy style, great food wine. $25 / $275Pattison Family Reserve 2015 Pinot Noir - generous and ripe (14%) from a high altitude cool climate Macedon Ranges vineyard in a very warm year .... a big bold Aussie Pinot rather than a delicate Burgundy style. Already very popular. $28 / $300Burke & Wills 2016 Vat 1 Heathcote Shiraz - seventh Shiraz release from our cool climate home vineyard; spicey bright red fruit flavours embellished by fragrant French oak. Silver medal at the 2018 Heathcote Wine Show. $36 / $395Burke & Wills 2015 ‘The Aristocrat’ Heathcote Cabernet Merlot - classic Bordeaux style blend of Cab. Sauv., Merlot, Cab. Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec, matured in French oak barrels. Silver medal at the 2018 Heathcote Wine Show. $32 / $350

For more comprehensive tasting notes visit our website - www.wineandmusic.net .

WINE ORDERS: phone (03) 5425 5400, email: wineandmusic@bigpond.com Payment by cheque, Visa, Mastercard or direct debit can follow later.

NO DELIVERY CHARGE for cases to Melbourne / Macedon Ranges / Bendigo. $15 per case country Victoria, $15 - $45+ other destinations.

CELLAR DOOR SALES any time we are home ...phone (03) 5425 5400. And if you come at lunch time enjoy the full Cellar Door Experience with a light lunch on us.

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Heathcote On Show, June 8, 9, 10 ...Heathcote On Show runs for the three days of

The Queen’s Birthday Weekend, June 8, 9 and 10, and features all of the tourist attractions in and around Heathcote, most of them being winer-ies. So it is the biggest cellar door weekend of the year for the Heathcote region. Down south of the region we are a bit disconnected from the main town so on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm a group of us including 3 wineries, Gold-fields Cheese, Barfold Olives and Pud For All Seasons will be offering free tastings and sales at the Redesdale Hall, across the road from the pub, which will be offering meals matched to our wines all weekend. And lighter snacks will be available at The Rural Café a minute’s walk away. On the Monday we will also have our cellar door open at home.

WHAT IS THAT SEDIMENT?You’ve all come across sediment at the bottom

of a wine bottle, and thus probably in your glass. And more so with older wines, where it often coats the sides of the bottle. It is totally harmless, and is just something that was in solution in the wine (all wines) and has precipitated into crystals, most likely because the bottle has been very cold at some time. Our wines do it a lot, mainly for two reasons ... 1) we bottle the wines fairly young, before the crystalisation might have happened in barrel or tank, and 2) winter nights can get very cold here and wines reaching below 2 degrees C are almost guaranteed to produce crystals.

The substance is potassium bitartrate, or oc-casionally sodium bitartrate, and young wines are saturated with it. Over a period it gets deposited as crystals in tanks and barrels, and latterly in bottles if the winery doesn’t have the facilities to hold the bulk wine around zero degrees for two or three weeks before bottling. It applies to white wines too ... if they are put in a very cold fridge they will shed crystals that look like crushed glass but are totally harmless and are referred to by some winemakers as ‘white diamonds’, and regarded as a good thing.

One of the reasons most wines come in punted bottles is to minimise the area of contact between the wine and the sediment, making clean decant-ing easier. If you don’t like the sediment, decant-ing is the best option, with a bright light behind the neck of the bottle so you can see that the wine pouring out of the neck of the bottle is clear.