February 2023 Purchases

[I Love Shiraz]

6 x Benevelli Piro Langhe Nebbiolo 2021 (Piedmont)
6 x In Praise of Shadows Shiraz 2021 (McLaren Vale)
6 x Purple Hands Shiraz 2021 (Barossa Valley)
6 x Yangarra Estate Vineyard Old Vine Grenache 2021 (McLaren Vale)
6 x Sons of Eden Freya Riesling 2022 (Eden Valley)

Not done with purchasing wine for the month!

[Sean]

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[phillisc]

6 2019 Yalumba The Cigar
Cheers Craig

[kenzo]

6 2018 ATR Wines Grower's Series Shiraz

[VinoEd]

A few over the last Couple of weeks:

2 x 2019 Best’s Bin 0 Shiraz
6 x 2019 Wynns BL
3 x 2021 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Shiraz
3 x 2018 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet
1 x each 2004/5/6/7/8 Clarendon Hills Sandown Cabernet

Also having a look at some of the Torbreck on pre-order. Quite expensive, maybe just a bottle or two.

Cheers Ed

[phillisc]

Well done on the Rayner Ed, picking up a half dozen myself. One of the really good Shiraz from MV, and quite well priced. Think 2021 Moonlight Hour might be worth a punt too, I suspect a better wine than the 2020. Andre and Selina doing very good things, been buying the wines for a decade now...2021 Violet Hour is a cracker.

Torbreck (gee what is it with really over priced wine in BV ), will have to wait for the next life.
Cheers Craig

[phillisc]

6 2019 Seppelts St Peters
2 Wynns Pedro Ximenez, love this wine, rich , unctuous with a clean finish

Cheers Craig

[I Love Shiraz]

Well done on the Rayner Ed, picking up a half dozen myself. One of the really good Shiraz from MV, and quite well priced. Think 2021 Moonlight Hour might be worth a punt too, I suspect a better wine than the 2020. Andre and Selina doing very good things, been buying the wines for a decade now...2021 Violet Hour is a cracker.

Torbreck (gee what is it with really over priced wine in BV ), will have to wait for the next life.
Cheers Craig

I tasted the Bondar Rayner Vineyard Shiraz 2021 at their cellar door, and thought it was outstanding. I purchased a bottle there and then, but thinking I will pick up a six pack.

[Rossco]

Really haven't bought much in a very long time. More drinking what i do have, however
couldn't pass up:

3 x Bellebonne 2020 Vintage Sparkling Rose
3 x Bellebonne N/V Bis Sparkling Rose
3 x Granite Hills 2021 Gamay

[mjs]

6 x 2020 Ch de Terrefort Lescalle ... cheapish Bordeaux

[scribbler]

3 x 2021 Granite hills gamay
3 x 2022 Granite hills "1971" block riesling
3 x 2021 Coldstream Hills "esplanade" pinot noir

[phillisc]

A few 2019 Wynns BL Shiraz from TWE. good price on a phone order plus a voucher
Cheers Craig

[mjs]

12 x 2019 Yalumba The Cigar
3 x 2021 Te Mata Coleraine
some cheap rubbish from WA

[phillisc]

Some more Cigar and a few more O'Leary Walker PH Riesling...
Cheers Craig

[mychurch]

Not really been drinking Chardonnay the past couple of years so took in 18 bottles to the MW Auction, which sold. Great. Not much really of interest for me except for a Single bottle of 2000 Granite Hills Riesling. That came in a mixed cased of 12 though, which means I have some 25 year old Semillon and Riesling and an accident meant I won 4 bottles of 02 Wolf Blass Yellow Label Riesling and 4 bottles of a 95 Sancerre. I like old white wine but really dont have the space. In for a penny though, so single bottles of
86 Baileys Hermitage
82 Brown Brothers Victorian Cabernet
80 Chateau Yaldara Hermitage
84 Chateau Yaldara Hermitage
81 Chateau Yaldara Cabernet

I almost bid for the Wolf Blass and the Sancerre last weekend, - i filled in the amount but did not hit the bid button. When I put the bid in for the Baileys, the old bids that I did not go through with were held in cashe and got applied, hence the extra bottles. Probably a software fault, but I'm happy to try them rather than complain. Might be different if it was something expensive though.

[Ian S]

I'd have hopes for the riesling and Wolf Blass were certainly decent with it back then, plus a good vintage. 1995 Sancerre... by all rights it ought to be a risk, but such wines can often surprise.

[mychurch]

Ian, I had a 1988 Baron De L last Nov and it was as fresh as a daisy, so hopefully the Sancerre is fine.

I picked up some 95 Wolf Blass Riesling at the previous auction as part of a mixed lot. With a cork and advanced, but it opened up really well over a few days. I’m hoping to 02 has a screw cap.

[phillisc]

Ian, I had a 1988 Baron De L last Nov and it was as fresh as a daisy, so hopefully the Sancerre is fine.

I picked up some 95 Wolf Blass Riesling at the previous auction as part of a mixed lot. With a cork and advanced, but it opened up really well over a few days. I’m hoping to 02 has a screw cap.

02 will have a screw cap MC...of the 60 or so Rieslings I have consumed or cellared from the 02 vintage, only Pewsey Vale and not surprisingly Rockford (who are cork adverse) had a screw cap. I am bemused by PV and spoke to Louisa Rose about it, particularly in light of the 1970s screw cap trials at Yalumba and the 02 Contours being under screw cap. Strange indeed.
Cheers Craig

[phillisc]

6 Hewitson 2021 Strawberry Hill BV Shiraz
Cheers Craig

[Con J]

I haven’t logged in for while.

Sold a couple of bottles and picked up this mixed dozen from MW a couple of days ago and got some change back.

1974 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1976 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1980 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1985 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1984 Mount Mary - Pinot Noir.
1979 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1981 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1984 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1986 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1988 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1989 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1970 Campbells - 100th Anniversary Vintage Muscat.

Cheers Con.

[mjs]

I haven’t logged in for while.

Sold a couple of bottles and picked up this mixed dozen from MW a couple of days ago and got some change back.

1974 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1976 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1980 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1985 Moss Wood - Cabernet Sauvignon.
1984 Mount Mary - Pinot Noir.
1979 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1981 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1984 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1986 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1988 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1989 Mount Mary - Quintet.
1970 Campbells - 100th Anniversary Vintage Muscat.

Cheers Con.

Great pickup there Con. I seem to have avoided the last few MW auctions including this week’s. Must have a look next month.

[phillisc]

Con, that's a lovely line up...fingers crossed for the corks on the Quintets. I have joined MW, prices seem fair.
Cheers Craig

[Alan Foo]

Con, that's a lovely line up...fingers crossed for the corks on the Quintets. I have joined MW, prices seem fair.
Cheers Craig

Thanks Craig, now I will have a new member to fight over that bottle.

Cheers,
Alan

[mychurch]

I was paranoid that it was Con I was bidding against fit my 86 Baileys. Those Mount Mary’s must have been a distraction.

How old is MM in it’s current format Con ? The 74 is from a different era, but is it from a different owning family ?

[phillisc]

Con, that's a lovely line up...fingers crossed for the corks on the Quintets. I have joined MW, prices seem fair.
Cheers Craig

Thanks Craig, now I will have a new member to fight over that bottle.

Cheers,
Alan

No worries Alan, don't think you have too much to worry about. I'm generally after old Coonawarra's.
Cheers Craig

[phillisc]

6 2019 Petaluma AH Shiraz
Cheers Craig

[Con J]

I was paranoid that it was Con I was bidding against fit my 86 Baileys. Those Mount Mary’s must have been a distraction.

How old is MM in it’s current format Con ? The 74 is from a different era, but is it from a different owning family ?

I did see the Baileys but forgot to add it on the watch list.

Not sure about the old Moss Wood, didn’t think they went that far back.

Few photos of Moss Wood.

Cheers Con.

[Con J]

A few more pics that are available.

The 1970 is for my wife, birth year.

Cheers Con.

[Con J]

The Mount Mary pics.

Cheers Con.

[mjs]

Con,
I suspect there will be a few very enjoyable bottles there. Hopefully no, or not too many duds!
Cheers, Malcolm