New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell will resign after it was revealed that he sent a “thank you” note for a A$3,000 bottle of wine that he had strongly denied receiving in testimony before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

“I’ve accepted that I’ve had a massive memory fail.  I still can't explain either the arrival of a gift that I have no recollection of or its absence, which I certainly still can't fathom, but I accept the consequences in an orderly way,” O’Farrell said of the tasty beverage that was worth more than some of the cars this journalist has driven in the past. 

One day before, O’Farrell was adamant that his memory was crystal clear and he never, ever, ever received a bottle of 1959 Penfolds Grange wine, coincidentally from the year of his birth.  Not only does he claim to have forgotten the A$3,000 bottle of wine, but he didn’t remember the “thank you” note – hand-written – address to Liberal fundraiser Nick Di Girolamo, who apparently sent it over just after the 2011 election.