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Happy to give a tour and taste at Two Hands Dan. Just pm me. Same goes for any forum members who are visiting the BV.

smidge wines, the tardy, langhorne creek zin. Best aussie zin I have tried.

Sorry guys I will have to be a late withdrawl I wont be able to get away from work till 8:30.

sorry n4sir was serious about coming no 45 lafite though. Will save that for later. Thinking about bringing serious cru beaujolais, austrian GV and a muscat baumes de venise, but thoughts could change. I'm happy to bring something else.

I did say that I would like to come but I guess I just didn't make the grade. Looks like I'll keep my 45' Lafite all to my self.

I wouldn't mind attending my first offline. I've got a 4 litre tangled vine soft dry red which i heard is drinking well according to the man in the parklands. Failing that I could get a de borts sacred hill out of the wine cabinet.
So am I welcome?

Dinner at T Chow. Impressions only 2002 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Spatlese (Magnum) Green apples, minerals, white flowers. Power, length, balance and poise. 2001 Les Aphillanthes Cote du Rhone Cuvee Des Trois Cepages Band Aids and Metal would be testing evening the most brett tolerant...

For something completely different try the Wine Hub at the Yarra Valley dairy they have some interesting stuff. Try some of the Luke Lambert wines. For some hard to get wines go to the Barrique wine store main street, Healseville. For appointment only, I had a great expirience at Hillcrest recently....

i think you will find its an agglomerate cork

I'm not a winemaker but I am a winemaking student. So I will give it a go. What KMP described are classic reductive aromas. Put simply screwcaps provide a tighter seal than corks and therefor encourages a reductive environment. Sulpher compounds are readily produced under reductive conditions. Hence...

sounds like a disulphide problem. Where the oxidation of ethyl mercaptan produces diethyl disulphide.

I leave for Cairns and having never been before could someone recommend a good wine store, so i can drink some decent wine when i'm up there.

From what I understand you can't find the fruit and oak disjointed becaused unless it has changed in 05 it is an unoaked shiraz

Just one wine for me this week. 2001 Paul Jaboulet Aine Parallel 45 Cotes Du Rhone Not a bad CDR, light to medium bodied in style quite a simple nose of red berries, currents and a healthy dash of white pepper. Palate was rather dilute but some savoury fruits did pop there heads up mid palate, tanni...

correction I'm with jay04a

Masi Amarone Della Valpolicella

Bleasdale Generations Shiraz

I'm in as long as its after the 4th of July. I've got exams form next week then I'm off to cairns

Jansz NV[b] Ullage level was quite big due to a leaky cork and subsequently the wine had lost a few atmospheres of pressure. Base wine was quite nice with some yeasty autolysis characters nothing to complex but quite pleasent. Always one of my favourite NV Aussie sparklers. [b]2005 Two Hands Brilli...

2000 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz I was quite suprised by this I guess I was expecting more raisined stressed fruit charcters form this difficult vintage. From the first pour into the decanter a beautiful fragrance of blackberries and blackcurrents filled the air. By the time it was in the glas...

I'm a uni student too, I cover both bases as I'm studying oenology. I would also like to be involved in more offlines.

Bremerton 2002 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Drinking this wine as I write, definitely not varietal but what it lacks in elegance and charm it certainly makes up for in raw power. Sweet vibrant cassis on the nose backed up by freshly polished leather and a healthy lick of spicy vanillian oak thanks to...

I would definitely recommend two hands great cellar door.

Peter Lehmanns do an excellent ploughmans lunch which they call the weighbridge platter, great local fresh produce. Dried friuts almonds, apex bakery bread, great condiments and linkes meats. Kabminye also do a great lunch and also produce an excellent well priced shiraz 'the hubert'. It is on krond...

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Garry Crittenden i series King Valley Nebbiolo 2000 Typical nebbiolo colour pale red with significant bricking aroung the rim. Beautiful nose very varietal, delicate aromas of rose petal followed by dried fuits most noteably prunes and raisons with some meaty undertones adding some extra complexity...

Here are the prices for the upcoming Penfolds Premium release on May 1st

Grange 499 one retailer is offering 2 for 899
RWT 149
Magill Estate 89
St Henri 69

The St Henri looks like the best bet.

you can count me in would love to come along to my first Adelaide offline. wah hing sounds pretty good, if it is anything like the two chows it should be good. Dont have a preference to a varietal night or a non-varietal. As a student i would obviously prefer a lower priced venue. by the way rooview...

Good afternoon I have been lurking around this forum for well over a year now so I thought it was high time that i become more involved. i have enjoyed reading all your tasting notes and experiences and look forward to posting my own each week in torb's sunday drinking report. Just a little bit abou...

Stuart if you have a low tolerance to oak why dont you try a few un-oaked red wines.
Torbreck Juvenilles, Teusner Joshua and Teusner Riebke.