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3 x 2018 Terre Nerre Etna Rosso 3 x 2018 Terre Nerre Calderara 3 x 2018 Terre Nerre Guardiola 3 x 2018 Terre Nerre San Lorenzo I am very interested to see what these are like. 2018 a pretty average year by some reports in Etna, plus I have had a couple of premox bottles from this producer (others o...

I always tell the retailer when I have a flawed bottle that isn't due to storage (e.g. TCA, oxidation, etc,) but I don't demand anything. However, I expect them to offer some sort of recourse after I've informed them, and in most cases I've been successful in getting a replacement, refund, credit no...

Thought I'd chime in. I don't buy Penfolds wines and rarely get to drink them. It's a producer I avoid. Modern Penfolds (and Shiraz in general) just not a style I enjoy. Nevertheless, I thought the tasting was fantastic and very educational. It's good to check in every now and then and see if one's ...

I've come to learn from these sort of tastings where you know the wines you'll be tasting beforehand, is that what you expect to be the best and what actually shows the best on the night are usually different. That said, I'm expecting the 76 St Henri to be my WOTN. I like 'em older and our host has ...

What I took out of the night: 2017 seemed a 'forward' year for Etna, and Im personally not buying any. Agreed, it's a forward vintage. 2017 the weakest Etna vintage I've tasted. I hardly bought any. A vintage for drinking young. Many of the tasters have had wonderful experiences with prior vintages...

Bouchard Père et Fils - Beaune 1er cru - Grèves - Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus x1 At a Bouchard tasting in Melbourne tonight and was not impressed by the wines. The 3 whites, including an 05 Corton Charlemange, and 4 reds featured a consistent soft, low acid mouth feel that seemed manufactured. The ‘17 ...

I wish I could point to an easily accessible, affordable example to show how it should be done, but I know Grenache can be incredible in the right hands. (Dare I say Rayas). Try the Yangarra Estate Ovitelli Grenache (called 'Small Pot Ceramic Egg Grenache' prior to 2015 vintage). For my palate, it'...

Great advice above. What I'll add is to ensure that you procure your wines from sources that you trust to treat and store them properly. Nothing worse than perfectly cellaring a wine for years to then end up with a faulty wine because someone mistreated the bottle before you acquired it. Unfortunate...

Interestingly I bought some bottles of 2019 Giant Steps pinot the other week and they actually said on the back label that it contained 8% Otago pinot in it. I always thought the early iterations of Marlborough SB (80s/90s) had a bit of Aussie semillon in them, but I was surprised to see the confes...

$20 buys a full bottle of Chambers 2004 Vintage Port, and if I were an alcoholic I think it would be on my ‘must buy’ list - as it was I picked up 10 bottles Cellar door. It’s not really Summer Drinking, but then again it’s not been a warm summer so far. The spirit is very well integrated into the ...

Well, the move has happened, turns out I was even worse at estimating quantities at home than I thought. About 1000 bottles and miscellaneous magna and bigger under the house in Melbourne (I originally thought it was 600+ bottles, then 800 bottles on reassessment, I was clearly wrong :lol: :lol: ) ...

had a look at six 2015 Burgs on the weekend. a lot of keyboard warriors panned Meadows for his nomination of 2015 as GOAT, but it is now very clear this is an absolutely fantastic vintage. Some of the wines are shutting down, but the quality of fruit, tannin management, and purity of the wines is a...

Sparkling Red: NV Primo Estate Joseph Sparkling Red - 2014 Disgorgement. I'm curious, the Primo Estate sparkling had six years aging post disgorgement, was it still primary in character or had it developed tertiary notes. This wine is a complex concoction. It contains Shiraz from every vintage sinc...

Most of my wine groups were on hiatus for most of 2020, so I tasted significantly fewer high end wines. Despite this, I still had some awesome wines, most of them in December when my wine groups resumed. Looking back at my notes, here are the winners. White: 2010 Coche-Dury Meursault Blanc Champagne...

Time to reflect. Buy a few more bottles of 2012 Champagne. I only bought 2 bottles. Would have liked to buy a few more. Buy 3 or 4 cases of 2016 Barolo from 'traditionalist' producers. I purposely didn't buy many 2015's to leave room for the 2016's. Success here. Bought 48 bottles. Send some oaky st...

Primo Estate Joseph Sparkling -- July 2014 Disgorgement (13.5% ABV) " To create the JOSEPH Sparkling Red a hogshead of the ultra premium JOSEPH Moda Cabernet Merlot from every year since 1991 and Primo Estate Shiraz from 1989 is added to a unique blend of museum vintages from the past 40 years...

These 2 come to mind:
Cullen Diana Madeline
Bass Phillip Pinot

Imagine if a northern Rhone wine maker were to make a wine in Australia, would not the terroir still make itself known? Michel Chapoutier comes to mind here with his wines from the Pyrenees, Heathcote and Beechworth. His philosophy is to let the terroir speak for itself, so he does exactly what I w...

I suspect that the inspiration for it was based on trying to emulate Northern Rhone and thinking that adding/co-fermenting Viognier was all that was needed. Trying to emulate another Old World wine region isn't limited to SV. I can understand the logic of a winemaker using an iconic benchmark wine ...

2016 Luigi Oddero Barbaresco
2016 Luigi Oddero Barolo Rombone
2016 Luigi Oddero Barolo Rocche Rivera

And that's it folks! My cellar is now at 100% capacity. Time to stop procrastinating and auction off those oaky Barolo that I never want to drink.

What is the Craiglee sparkling shiraz like? would be keen to try some, based on their outstanding (still) shiraz. I have no idea, as I have never tried one before. However I am a very big fan of Sparkling Reds AND a very big fan of Craiglee Reds, so I decided to take a punt. Will post tasting notes...

3 x 2016 Massolino Barolo
3 x 2016 Massolino Barolo Margheria
3 x 2016 Massolino Barolo Parafada
3 x 2016 Massolino Barolo Parussi

Always a great paring -- cabernet and steak. I haven't tried the '96 707, but an '86 I tried a couple years ago was epic. Also really enjoyed a '90 last year.

Yesterday I came across something unusual from Australia. It is a non-vintage sparkling red under a crown seal. It's called 'The Jumping Grape' and supposedly made by a wine company of the same name. I think it is a wine made for the US importer listed on the back label. I think it had been on the ...

I see them come up at auction quite frequently. I see a 2007 is up for auction right now.

Air pump cork remover?

If you're not already aware of it, the thread on Wine-berserkers set up by Pat Burton is very useful. It should not be thought of as definitive, and Pat was very good at stressing this when setting it up. It gives factual information, plus individual opinion, on where producers (and individual wine...

Thanks for the very informative notes, Allan.

Smart buying, Con. I had the 1994 last year and it was a stunner

I've got a couple bottles of 2012 and 2013 in the cellar. Not plannng to open them until the mid 2030's.

Jamie, based on your tasting note of the Pio Cesare Barolo Ornato 2007, I don't think I'd enjoy it. The more Nebbiolo I drink, the more I find that I'm averse to a strong oak regime. I find this mostly occurs with barrique, but not always. Conversely, I occasionally find wines that used botti which ...

Con J wrote:Interesting read on the Moss Wood vs Cullen mini vertical and Ozzie where the hell did you find that photo.

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