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Many thanks for the suggestions so far. I really appreciate the knowledge, as I am very limited to Australian-centric wines. Good idea about the larger formats, that will open up a few other considerations. please keep the suggestions coming. Cheers.

I am looking to cellar wine(s) from both the 1990 & 1986 vintage with the aim to get them to 50 years, around $600 value for each year. I'm not after a specific style or region, just something that will get there. I've been reading a few posts here and there and the Penfolds Bin90A crops up a fe...

A little while ago i opened a bottle of the '05 JR, it was a very delicious wine, snap them up!

Well i didnt get invited to join up for the lottery...

i feel left out

mychurch wrote:I remember it being a very grapy wine

hahahaha i know exactly what you mean, i love it when people describe wine with all these metaphors, but hearing that put a smile on my face this morning...

That sounds like an amazing idea! when were you planning to organize this for?

the best i have done is 2x Hill Of Grace for $90 in '07 of a mate who didn't know what they were. Nice mate you are! Agreed. Harsh. To put it into perspective he wanted to give them away to me because he knew i drank wine and he does like it at all, i offered all the money i had in my wallet at the...

Like the other times I picked up a Dome 24 bttls wine fridge for $50 at target. And today I was just browsing the local book store when I saw "1001 wines you must try before you die" by Houn Hooke for just $12. Now all I need is to find a Vintec unit for under $200. (when hell freezes ove...

Well I just grabbed a 05 389 on the weekend and just realised last night that it is nearly at the shoulder edge. Way unacceptable ullage for a current wine. I did post a query about my other Penfolds wines recently that had below normal ullage but seemed the consensus was I was being fussy (they we...

'86 john riddoch

not a week or a fortnight, more like 2 months, mind you 7 of those top bottles were the other night...

sometimes broach the question "gee do i drink too much?" especially when we take out all these...

Tomorrow for lunch... 1979 Bollinger Grand Annee 1990 Krug 2000 Chablis Fevre Bougros (Cote Bouguerots) 2000 Chablis Fevre Les Preuses 1981 Lopez de Heredia Bosconia 1976 Vina Real GR CVNE 1979 Vega Sicilia 1979 Grange 1981 Grange 1989 Chave Hermitage 1959 Reynier? Chateauneuf du Pape 1989 Jaboulet...

monghead wrote:

Davo wrote:Stop calling us common and you might get some replies

Hmmm,

???

Yes, you called???

i definitely use a 440ml grolsh flip top bottle, the one thing i do find slightly annoying at times though is that it is 440ml and not an even 375, meh.

Woohoo, i have an '86 grange... everytime i go to open a bottle of wine i consider opening it, and then end up looking at it for ages and somehow finding restraint... it doesn help that i have to reach past it to get to other wines.... well done its all about discipline Its after a couple of bottle...

Wayno wrote:

hmmm wrote:a minimoog = no wine

Wine can wait, for a minimoog.

haha til next month when i cave in...

Woohoo, i have an '86 grange... everytime i go to open a bottle of wine i consider opening it, and then end up looking at it for ages and somehow finding restraint... it doesn help that i have to reach past it to get to other wines....

a minimoog = no wine

i had a 2002 just a few weeks back and it was traveling along nicely, still a little while left in it yt...

Quite a good week this week, 2006 wolf blass grey label shiraz this was quite a nice wine, i was planning to leave this for a while but umm'd and ahhh'd over it and eventually twisted the screw cap. eveything about this wine was big and bold, yet the elements seemed a little disjointed after tasting...

. EDIT: Just had two temp gauges in the fridge, top and bottom for a couple hours. Bottom one read just below 19c, the top one read just above 18c. I should also point out that the amount of moisture on the bottle is miniscule. It's literally a thin film over the glass, but you can see it when you ...

I have been wondering about opening this bottle of Penfolds bin 04A chardonnay for a little while now, was wondering if anyone out there has had the opportunity to taste this wine?? and what would be a good dish/cheeses to match it with?

also bought which just arrived today, a vertical wendouree cab malbec 1997-2002

monghead wrote:Vintage Cellars.....

thanks for the heads up!

80% wine 20% food/cheese to go with the wine

monghead wrote:

Craig(NZ) wrote:

Only 36?

Too much wine around to drink 36 bottles of the same plonk

Good point Craig...

Sometime though, you get a little carried away eh?

Currently sitting on >24 bottles of 08 Mesh Riesling.

.....and looking for more....

so, where exactly are you pulling these 08's from?

Which vintage was this one?

i have never had a black nobel but have always been intrigued by it, how does it compare against the nobel?

Well it seems that i get to kick start this one off... technically i didn't buy either of these (i love birthday presents:), but what the hey: 1970 chateau latour the grand vin 1986 penfolds grange 1997 wynns john riddoch Nice! You have extremely generous friends/family hmmm. The 86 Grange is still...

i have a pretty new vintec 40 bottle fridge, it does smell a bit plastic like, but also a little woody too... i dont find it overly pungent though. i put it down to the fact that it was brand new.

im pretty sure the smell wont effect the wines in anyway at all. at least im hoping not.