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$500. What would you buy out of these?

1 Penfolds Grange 2002
0
No votes
6 Balnaves The Tally 2004 (If you can still get them)
20
77%
1 Penfolds Bin707 2002 magnum
2
8%
3 Penfolds Bin707 2005
4
15%
 
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limited budget of $500

Post by Red Red Wine »

What you you guys buy if your budget was only $500 for the rest of the year?

There are many others, but I only know about these wine because of the reviews I have read, so the choices are quite limited.


Any input is welcome :D
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Post by winetastic »

To drink now or to cellar, do you have preferred styles or regions?
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Post by roughred »

Hmmm, I know it's all hypothetical, but if my budget for the rest of the year was only $500 I would be lowering my sights a little.

Half a dozen 2004 Zema Cabernet Sauvignon at around $20
Half a dozen 2005 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon at around $28
Half a dozen 2006 Mountadam Shiraz at around $16

All great drinking now, but will drink well over 6-10 years.
Should leave enough for a bottle of 04 St Henri, and maybe a 389 to toast your smart buying!

Cheers,

LL
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Post by griff »

At $500 for the rest of the year and 1-2 bottles drinking a week I would be looking at the $15 red thread! :)

cheers

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Post by Red Bigot »

None of the above, I already have 6 Tally 2004.

Like the others, if $500 is all I could spend for the next 6+ months, I'd buy around the $20pb mark.
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Post by Davo »

Inconceivable :?

We drink 1 bottle of red per night minimum. 6 months at that rate would require around 200 bottles. Impossible to source wine I would put inside my mouth (in Australia) at $2.50 a bottle, and I have no intention of cutting down just to meet a budget.
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Davo wrote:Inconceivable :?

We drink 1 bottle of red per night minimum. 6 months at that rate would require around 200 bottles. Impossible to source wine I would put inside my mouth (in Australia) at $2.50 a bottle, and I have no intention of cutting down just to meet a budget.


Is your cellar empty already?

Actually, $500 is what I need to spend for the rest of the year so I can drink the stuff in the cellar that needs drinking.
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Post by kwattro »

for me - if it's 5000, then i'll go for 10xGrange
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Post by Davo »

Red Bigot wrote:
Is your cellar empty already?



No.

We could possibly survive a 10 year drought :oops:
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Post by Mike Hawkins »

Based on your list, the Tally is a no-brainer. IMO, close to, if not already, the best Cab in Australia after Moss Wood.
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Post by Red Red Wine »

i really should say if you have $500 to buy some wine to cellar.
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Post by Ratcatcher »

I voted for The Tally but if it was me and I was confined to those selections it would be:

4 Balnaves
1 x 707

or,

3 Balnaves
1 x 707

and 2 bottles of 389 or 1 of St Henri to make up the $500 (continuing the Penfolds theme)
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Post by Craig(NZ) »

I only have 500 and the only wines in the world are penfolds and balnaves...

im with Davo, if this is the world i have to live in find me a bridge to jump off
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Post by Boyeah »

Ratcatcher wrote:I voted for The Tally but if it was me and I was confined to those selections it would be:

4 Balnaves
1 x 707

or,

3 Balnaves
1 x 707

and 2 bottles of 389 or 1 of St Henri to make up the $500 (continuing the Penfolds theme)

I second that.
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Post by platinum »

I cant think of a lot of World class Red wines for <$80 (especially Cabs) like the 2004 Tally (JO's statement about how it should be mandotory tasting for all Aus winemakers is very true) so I would choose that although I love 707 too and purchase this even usually a bottle or 2...As for Grange I didnt purchase the 02 but I think the 04 will be a certain purchase if its as good as I hear... So I vote Tally in a Photo over 707!!
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Post by Red Red Wine »

any thoughts on the 05 Tally?
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