The Auswine Forum

In terms of style, it is more expressive in its youth, more lively and intense than the Wynns. It won't be as long lived though, the tannins are much finer and softer(not to mention less abundant)and I think it is a medium term cellaring prospect. This doesn't detract from it though, nor is it damni...

Got a sample bottle in the mail today, will taste on Monday and report back. $40 retail says the promo material. Single Vineyard Cabernet.


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Hey Mate, When you get to the bottles with irrelevant names like "romanee" and "Chateau" something, don't take any notice of them, they're meaningless. Just pm me , let me know where you live and I'll come around and save you having to take them to the tip. I'm like to guy from Pulp Fiction, I just ...

BORAD- Ali G's inept alter ego from the Middle east, responsible for some of the funniest impromptu skits ever on TV. So you see, Bkeela( being a man of great taste in television) may have thought that you were comparing him to Borad ( "... thats a very borad question"), and i can see why he would t...

Mo said everything twice,everything twice. Total eccentric. Never had a bank account until near the end of his life. Carried up to $30 000 around with him all the time. Never married. Never had an alcoholic drink. Never had a girlfriend. Probably better off ! Absolute genius with a golf club. Hogan ...

Newton, Grant & Spencer were the designers. I'm not sure that they are still together as a team. Obviously, everyone has their own ideas on what constitutes good design, and the arguments on merit often imitate the level of disagreement we see in realtion to wine quality. Many designers like to ...

Steve, I'm on the judging panel for Golf Digest's Top 100 courses, and whilst I won't speak for any of the other judges, I know there was a general feeling that the changes to the green designs were extravagant and out of character. The course is in great condition, just superb really, but there's n...

Chris, The first Masters i played I remember thinking just how narrow the place was; there were some really intimidating tee shots and anything astray was in big trouble. It had its own character. What you see now though is a course made a lot shorter by technology, but at the same time easier by de...

Missed the cut at the Oz Open so had a few days to kill- spent 3 of them at Wine Oz! Plenty of really good stuff,in short these were my picks Hoddles Creek Chard and Pinot 03 Petaluma Shiraz 02 Wirra Wirra RSW 02 Carlei Estate Shiraz 02 Crawford River Riesling 04 Seppelt Chalambar 01&02 Seppelt ...

Elvis, There was no wind all week,and they have made the course easier every year. All the tee-tree to the right of seven has been cut out,replaced with a bunker,so now the hardest tee shot in golf has been made pretty basic. A lot of the undergrowth has been taken out too, so the course just isn't ...

Steve, Still making my mind up about next year. I've had a lot of problems with my body in the last few years, 5 separate visits to the surgeon now. The spirit is willing but the body,well, you get the drift. I've got a few things going on outside of tournament golf, just a matter of deciding which ...

Hey Mike, Thanks for your support. I'd like to say it was tough this week but it was about as easy as i've played Huntingdale. No wind,soft greens, it all adds up to really low scores. I just didn't putt too good this week, signs of it getting better in patches but not really good enough to contend....

Hi Guys, Got beaten up yesterday! Double bogey, par , Double bogey, Double bogey start. Never had a start like it ever. Hung tough but doubled 17 too. Probably not at the peak of my game at the moment but we'll see what I can conjure up today. Thanks for your support. Cheers

Seppelt Show Sparkling Shiraz 1994- outstanding juice $55

Murray,

I was thinking the same thing. From memory the components of this wine go back to the 1920's. It would seem that someone is taking advantage of some Seppelt generosity.

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Pretty sure this is the 64 Special Tokay, a blend of a number of earlier vintages. Lincoln Scott was kind enough to serve this up to me at a tasting last year and it is superb. Quite rare and not released in commercial quantities, to my knowledge. If you are a fan of the style then you won't be disa...

Leasingham Bastion Cabernet 2002($12), Hardy's Oomoo Shiraz 2002($12), Bullers Caspia Shiraz 2002($10).

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Thought we'd lost you Davo...... a close call............. good to have you back

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Mike et al, Point taken on the 100 point scale. In reality, it is only(at best) a 20 point scale(80-100) given that it is rare to find anything listed outside of the 85-95 point range. What this ends up doing is placing an undue emphasis on the importance of a one hundredth incremental adjustment. I...

Who said that???


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Prester, I have big question marks over the 2000 St Peters. I would suggest that you buy a bottle and try for yourself though, but here are my thoughts.... I've tried the wine on 5 separate occasions. The first, at the Seppelt roadshow, was a great wine. Full fruited,excellent intensity and unmistak...

Graeme, I havn't read the Schubert biography, must have look sometime. The judge wasn't Brian Barry,Jim someone rings a bell though. Interesting how style arguments continually crop up over time. It seems to me that the debate over Grange then seems scarily similar to the present stand-off over the ...

Adair, Interesting that you should bring up the 71 Grange. I was chatting to someone over the weekend who was a judge at the Royal Sydney show when it was first exhibited. Our discussion revolved around wine faults and just how much of a particular fault is tolerable before it gets marked down in ju...

Pizzini Arneis 2003, no-one will get that one!

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Derek,

Keep your ears peeled for the sirens. The fraud squad is on the way.

Gav, What is the world coming to when caddy's are becoming wine connoissuers...connoisers......connoisars.... , oh well, wine nerds then! It's a noble profession these days. Tigers caddy, Steve Williams was estimated to have made $800 000 US last year. In NZ, they wanted to claim him as one of their...

A welcome to new member Elvis, recently addicted wine groupie and member of the obscure sub culture known as caddies. A professional caddy,no less! The way you immediately recognise a person as a caddy is by the fact that none of them have real names. You are not a real caddy ( Steve Williams notwit...

Elvis,

You're not Steve Allans caddy by any chance,are you??

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Grant

It's a good article,Brian. A well presented argument, based less on emotion than most. You should post the link on the Squires board and see the indignation it will arouse. I read a post there where one guy said he was happy to have 10% of his wine destroyed by taint so that he could have the thrill...

Well,it pops up at auction every now and again,and usually for not much more than it cost originally ( $60 - $70). It is worth the effort .

GD