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Dalwhinnie ...... that's a Malt, Torb!

I was taking the mickey Torb. However you have brought up some good points, I agree with almost all of them. I suspect the greeness of the tannins in the 1980s was due to the influx of technically trained winemakers who based picking decisions on the lab' analyses. It takes time, the French say it t...

Sevenhills, sorry but this is an old fashioned Clare. This is what the Roly Burkes' Wendouree used to be like. More modern, perhaps elegant, are the newer styles from the higher parts of the valley. I agree that Clare wines are hard to say ... this is typical ... however, the (marginally), cooler cl...

Jenise, What are you attempting to show your tasters? Penfolds 128 was initially made to experiment with French oak; Bin 28 was Barossa fruit using American oak. Wynns used to use American. What you have is a style change. This is valuable in itself, but is that what you are attempting to illustrate...

It appears as if the CFO got in on this wine. That is, you have to turn out a wine... never mind the quality, feeeeeeel the width. Torb's notes and Halliday's are consistant with the fruit being picked physiologically un-ripe. I bet the brix was peeeeerfect, the TA just right and the pH was roght on...

Adair, You're not drinking any of the cheaper reds then? Nothing under $AUS 30? Look mate, you're in cloud cuckoo land if you think you can crop 13 tonnes an acre shiraz and NOT bolster it with a little sugar! Yet this is not at all a high tonnage in some areas. How do you think they can put wine on...

Same trick here, Advertised the 2001 release and it was all 2000 clearance. Bastards. But then they had to do something. Bought the 128 (2000) at $19.95 and okay at that price. Last week (and for the year passed) it was $32.00 with the 389 at $47 !!! The 1998 prices were $17.95 (28, 128) and $29.00 ...

Ah Danny, thanks for the notes. It takes me back, how I pine for them, aged Aussie Rieslings (they're just not available in the East Islands). Last I had was a Buring's Spaetlese, 1967 (tasted in 1999), and it shamed not the makers! See, you've made me feel biblical ... yeah, I'm getting old too.

Hi Chris, Look the obvious answer to your question is yes. However as the majority of the wines in Central Otago are priced in excess of $30 then the answer is a resounding NO! If I buy Banrock Station Shiraz and have difficulty telling it apart from Tarrango ... hell, I have a clean wine, innocuous...

It's "tuppence" Phil, let us not let the language die. The notes read to me of sulphide (rotten eggs, burnt rubber, boiled cabbage), not brett which is elastoplast (in one form) or wet dog (in another). Mind, these are subjective and I'll accept anyone's discriptors. Let us face it ... there is NO n...

Finla Mhor, this is the upper-end commercial label. Bragatto used to be the premium, however this will now be "Red Gate" from the 02 vintage on. They are also intending to make single vineyard wines to compliment the Red Gate label I believe. 2002 was an outstanding year for this southernmost region...