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Was the wifes birthday, so we visited a wine shop and picked up 1x of each of the following. NV Billecart Salmon Champagne 1996 Kays Amery Block 6 1993 Wendouree Shiraz Malbec 2003 Moss Wood Cabernet (Yummo) 2014 Grossett Polish Hill Riesling (Always reliable) The Moss Wood was fantastic, smooth, ba...

Apologies for ressurecting an old thread, but after reading a few posts about Wendouree (especially the '15 mailer) I really wanted to ask some advice regarding serving a recently picked up bottle, as I am now somewhat apprehensive about serving this properly. The wife wandering the wine shop random...

Tonight I'm drinking what is perhaps one of the oldest white wines I’ve ever had at 19 years old, perhaps given the age I should not have been surprised by the golden orange colour, but was still somewhat taken aback by the colour. Nose : Musky, slightly resiny, something sweet almost marzipa...

Here is my top 6. I find it interesting to see the numbers of bottles/average vintage, rather reflective of more recent purchasing habits and illustrative of earlier ones. Kellermeister 12.3% Bottles (52) /Average vintage 2010.4 Jen Pfeiffer 5.9% Bottles (25) / Average vintage 2012.5 Atlas Wines 5.5...

Biggest I ever had was a Wirra Wirra Church Block (Double Magnum/Jereboam?) which we cracked on our Wedding Day back in 2008. The occasion made the wine shine for some readon.

Currently the largest we have is a '06 Kellermeister Wild Witch magnum.

2013 Lay of the Land Ben Morven Farm Pinot Noir. I don't normally drink the PN, but this is making me think the knee jerk ignoring post Sideways was a silly thing to do. It strikes me as quite young at the moment, but is filled with juicy berry flavours and a wonderful drying finish that goes on for...

I have a bottle each of 1998 Barossa Valley Estates Sparkling E & E When I was adding a few of these to an online tracking site - I came across the E&E "Black Pepper" with the picture with "Black Pepper" on the front label in large text. I noticed these have reference to...

Thanks for posting the results up. Is nice to see what vineous activities people get up to locally (and look at the tasting notes longingly) .

Well that surprised me somewhat. I track my drinking (of wine) through cellar tracker, I would have guestimated more than it turns out that I really do. It seems we drink (two of us + multi person feeds) (and give away - gifts etc) between 125 and 150 bottles a year. I would have guessed at least 50...

We recently got a (20L) muscat barrel that we've been running for nearly 12 months now. The barrel was from the keg factory, and made from the old wood option. We've been pulling around 1L/month from it, and it went through a few phases, it started off really good, but over time that oak characteris...

Thanks for the tasting notes, looks very interesting.

Brings back memories, I have family who worked there when that was made, and lived off the road Berri Estates is on, brings back memories, so want to try this now!

malliemcg is me on CT. I have around the 250 bottle, have been super lazy of late re: notes, typically use it to keep track of what I have, what's been consumed and what needs to be consumed.

Such calls to arms bothers me. There is so much wine in the world, and it jolly well calls to be enjoyed, no matter it's origin. I have a hard enough time convincing people that if they like what ever it is that they're drinking that it's a blessedly good wine and deserves to be purchased. As much a...

Wishing I still lived in rAdelaide.

I'm all for trying to protect the region from Phylloxera...at the same time, many many regions around the world (including France) have had this issue and adjustments to the rootstock doesn't seem to have impacted their quality... The problem (as I understand it - please correct me if I'm wrong) fo...

The wine that got me into wine was a 1997 St Henri Shiraz - was gifted to me by a mate for one of my birthdays, and was stashed away for a few years and consumed some time I'm guessing around 2002. Prior to this I'd had some various wines over dinner that my mum had bought (things like Blue Nun, Jac...

I personally tend to find minerality (as a taste) in young Rieslings (and Semillon) that suit my palate, after doing the survey I now wonder if I'd say I sense the minerality in the nose because of the expectation it will have it on the palate. (I've experienced slate, granite, river stones and lime...

Sparky - some salient advice! The minister for war and finance allowed the procurement of several bottles of the fizzy Red stuff . Now the trick will be getting them to survive not being opened until Christmas I'm hanging out to crack those special bottles with friends and family, and may we all not...

I find it interesting that it was dlo and a Fritz Haag Juffer-Sonnenuhr Auslese Riesling (LGK) 1983 that got me a) into Riesling and b) encouraged my wife to try (and then get into) Riesling as a variaetal, with tasting notes like that, it's going to be enough to help me stay the course and leave so...

From the article I suspect the winery who were apply the copied labels were conned by someone else in the chain, to make a wine with label X and were perhaps a bit lazy to go and do checking that it did not belong to anyone else. Salena Estate has agreed to an out-of-court settlement over the incide...

Polymer - thanks for that link - something a little more recent than what I'd found before.

Looks like nothing much to worry about, but rather things to be happy about. Just need to have some patience and enjoy the wines (regardless of closure).

Well that's answered my questions as to how my '02 St Henri's and '04 389's are tracking without the need to crack (another) one - 6 of each left, time to leave 'em alone for a while.

Has anyone had any experience with a screwcapped wine that showed (some) reductive characteristics that reduced with age? I've been trying to find more info - especially with regard to multiple enclosure tests, about how the wines develop over time under say cork and stelvin, but there is not much i...

Greetings, I realise that this one is a bit of an old chestnut but I've been doing some reading and as a result now have questions. It seems that there may be some indicators that the saran-tin screwcaps with really low oxygen permeation rates may have a higher chance to become reductive in the bott...

Australia (165 bottles) - South Australia (143) New South Wales (11) Victoria (6) Western Australia (5) Italy (3 bottles) - Veneto (2) Puglia (1) France (1 bottle) - Loire Valley (1) Hungary (1 bottle) - Hegyalja (1) Once apon a time the bulk of this was McLaren Vale (Shiraz w/ some Cab)- now broade...

Wine is meant to be nice. I got into wine nearly immeadiately - someone gave me a nice bottle of red on my 18th (1997 St Henri) drinking it was a most revealing experience, one that I needed to repeat. (At which point I discovered the price was out of my price range), so hit up various Shiraz's to f...

graham - After seeing that list I'm sure you're my long lost father, honest

Welcome to the forums! I too am thinking about this one, (although my Eldest was born in 2009) at present I figure I have plenty of time to worry about it. Any red's that will have the legs to stand up to the time won't be released until this year at the earliest, and any Vintage fortifieds are not ...

I find the 3 soil's d'Arenburg interesting, as when I had a few mates over about 2-3 years ago we ran across at least one issue that you did specifically : 2002 d’Arenberg Custodian Grenache – Sand on Clay Vineyard, McLaren Vale (cork): Medium to dark red/brick. Badly corked. I wonder ...

There are over 40 cellar doors between Collector and Murrambateman - I've only visited a two of these myself - Mt Majura and Lerida. I have always been meaning to visit some more. There are a few tours that exist and will take you around to a few of them for $85, I'll have to ask the guy who was tal...