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Just for some context, what sort of sample size are we looking at with the 2011 Pinot's you have tried? Around 10-20, with the majority at tastings. Supplement this with vintage reports, and reviews from professional writers and semi-pros/amateurs. I don't want to dwell too much so I leave it at th...

What are you going to drink while all your perfect vintages are still unapproachable? Something from a year like '11.. Why not write off producers or sites instead? Or instead of writing anything off, jut offer the best options at your disposal instead of saying something negative? If you can't say...

Thanks for clarifying my posts Michael, I wasn't getting too fired up, just bored in a lecture and thought I would engage. It is annoying that whole vintages are written off though, it's almost impossible to have a complete write off these days with the technology at hand (bar hail/ frost etc). The ...

That's why places like Germany and France, northern Italy, what with their cool weather, snow, lots of rain don't make good wine, it's just not possible unless it is always sunny and warm like in South Australia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa. You have to be trolling. The best wines of France, Ger...

2011 was a cool and wet vintage for most of Australia, therefore it is not possible to make good wine in a cool year as vintage = quality, cool vintage = bad quality. Really simple stuff. That's why places like Germany and France, northern Italy, what with their cool weather, snow, lots of rain don'...

Well Torbreck has talked about paying over $12,000/tonne for some of their top grapes (almost unheard of levels), and Kilikanoon is about to release a new challenger to the Granges/HoG level wines to be matured in a barrel made from a tree which was sold for €37K... So lets assume you buy the...

Farrside By Far 2007 Pinot - Disappointing.

1998 Bannockburn Shiraz