When will they ever learn??

[phillisc]

Ian, many thanks
Glad to see Whitey and I are in agreement re Bin 128...(78 points, Whitey was generous) apart from Magill the only single vineyard wine in the range ( bar the ultra expensive one offs) and yet I see comments here about 407 being questionable...however I can not recall ever having a good 128. Most of the releases are thin watery rubbish. There must be a warehouse just for this red...like KH of modern times who buys this shit!
Why can't Pennies make a decent budget shiraz from Coonawarra???
Someone do tell!

Got to laugh, with the coca-cola man in charge, probably related to the Irish aviation bloke slashing jobs, about bringing in $1000+ models....wankers...when TWE is supposedly on its knees in front of the executioner .

Got to laugh too that Grange has not moved a cent.

Having said all that, if there are off the back of a truck deals for Bins 8 and 9 could be very tempted to buy.
Equally St Henri as I have always thought is the Grange replacement (6+ bottles for 1...you do the math).
Might get some of these to go with the 2010 Magills....can't afford anything else.
Hope that they are all in abundance at the Langtons 6th...will get a proper taste plus other stands will be empty.


Uncle Dan and Uncle Cole...commeth May 1...do your best work...the words of the late Don Chip spring to mind

Happy hunting folks...the killing fields are largely yours...may pop my head up once the stampede has receded ha ha

Cheers Craig.

[TravisW]

Thanks for the link to the Australian Wine Review.

Penfolds Bin 9 Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 - $30 McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek, Wrattonbully, Barossa, Padthaway, Barossa Valley and Coonawarra. It's wines such as this which leave me cold. From a company which has lost its identity we have a wine with no sense of place. Fruit from where? From the Barossa and the Barossa Valley. NIce. I think I've finally given up spending any more of my dollars on any wines which aren't privately owned no matter how stupendous the Bin 9 may be. I've become a grumpy old man. Sheesh.

Cheers, Travis.

[Sean]

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[n4sir]

When he posts it on his blog a week ago, he is told there is an embargo until Feb 28 and has to take them down off his blog until then. I know he usually gets free samples from wineries.

This is nothing new - Penfolds have been enforcing a media embargo for a while. Six years ago when I attended a tasting for the Magill Estate Club well in advance of the release date and I posted the notes here, the shit hit the fan because nobody in the media was allowed to comment until the embargo date had passed. The following year (coincidentally when Jamie Sach presented it) he specifically asked any bloggers in the room (ie. me) to refrain from posting anything until the embargo date, which I duly obliged (even though some in the media then proceeded to "jump the gun"). If Andrew was invited to the preview as a blogger, if anything I would actually be a little surprised that he wasn't aware of the embargo.

Whitey... especially when he doesn't just give scores in the 90's for 12 wines, but adds two or three encouraging pluses to them too.

Philip's plus marks just means they have the potential for improvement, the more pluses the longer time it will potentially improve in the cellar. He does it for all wines, not just Penfolds.


Cheers,
Ian

[phillisc]

Ian, where this mob is concerned the shit needs to hit the fan far more often...in fact one could say that the fan is often bogged.

Clear that the boffins at Southbank are reading this blog.

May do something out of the ordinary and actually visit the Magill estate cellar door, (have not been for over 10 years) where hopefully after dodging all those who persist in taking a million photos of themselves, I might be able to properly taste the wines from a proper glass in an unhurried relaxed environment.

Of course I could be completely niave.


Cheers
Craig