Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:33 pm
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Sean wrote:By the way, I don’t think even the most hardcore fan could drink all 6 Marsannes in the one night on their own.
You've obviously not seen Adair in action then...
GW
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:53 pm
You've obviously not seen Adair in action then...
GW
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:45 pm
Gary W wrote:Sean wrote:By the way, I don’t think even the most hardcore fan could drink all 6 Marsannes in the one night on their own.
You've obviously not seen Adair in action then...
GW
I don't know what "sticking tongue out" is in html stuff, but please imagine it.
And GW, for what it is worth, you have not been with me at Tyrrell's at 8:30am in the morning with Murray Flannigan. A finer display of commitment to high acid white wine will not be found anywhere in the world.
Adair
P.S. Back to Tahbilk Marsanne, I love that 2004.. although I think I somehow missed the 2003 vintage. I better rectify. Gary, when are you opening your vertical of Tahbilk Marsanne?
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:13 pm
Adair wrote:
P.S. Back to Tahbilk Marsanne, I love that 2004.. although I think I somehow missed the 2003 vintage. I better rectify. Gary, when are you opening your vertical of Tahbilk Marsanne?
Soon. I'll let you know and have Dero-beat forewarned so they don't nab you as you come out clutching a number of brown paper bagged bottles...I think i have 99 through 07 but the winery has offered to fill backwards or any gaps etc. etc.
GW
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:01 pm
Adair wrote:Great to read this. I was confidently waiting for a great review of this wine in 2009... after a number of negative posts in 2008. I will keep my stash stashed away a little longer.wolf wrote:2001 Cullen Diana Madeleine: Possibly my best wine experience to date. Impenetrable colour. Nose leapt out of the glass with dark fruits, tabacco leaf, hint of oak. Incredible palate weight that I can still taste. No wonder JO gave it 97.
Adair
Here here. I Agree Adair it’s good to hear but was quietly confident all the same. I was extremely close to busting my only bottle on NYE just to find out for myself but it lives another few years (I think?).
Sam
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:47 pm
These were my NYE drinks:
01 Hardys Arras Lovely dry bubbles.
NV Lanson Rose champagne Corked grrrr. Drank it anyway though.
Left me to steal other folks wine and ended up finishing off a bottle of Queen Adelaide sparkling whatever. Desperate times called for desperate measures but it wasn't all that bad actually. A bit sweeter with a touch of honey but at 3am on NYE, who cares?
Last night had a bottle of 03 Brookland Estate Chardonnay Was sure this would be past it but it wasn't too bad in the end. Buttery nutty butterscotch mostly but not too sweet. Fine for a quaff.
01 Hardys Arras Lovely dry bubbles.
NV Lanson Rose champagne Corked grrrr. Drank it anyway though.
Left me to steal other folks wine and ended up finishing off a bottle of Queen Adelaide sparkling whatever. Desperate times called for desperate measures but it wasn't all that bad actually. A bit sweeter with a touch of honey but at 3am on NYE, who cares?
Last night had a bottle of 03 Brookland Estate Chardonnay Was sure this would be past it but it wasn't too bad in the end. Buttery nutty butterscotch mostly but not too sweet. Fine for a quaff.
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:53 pm
2007 Shaw & Smith M3 Chardonnay - Screwcap - Generous yet cool but lacks flavour complexity at the moment - pears, rockmelon. Deep. Refined. Smooth acid combines with texture, although still a little structurally boring. Nice drink but I will buy the De Bortoli Estate Chardonnay at a cheaper price rather than another of this. 92/100
When I put a bottle of NV Piper in the shopping cart a few weeks ago, my friend David looked at me with disgust and said that he was weaning his clients off "rubbish" like Piper and on to:
NV J. de Telmont Brut Sparkling (Champagne) - Cork - Very apple based, both red and green, with enough bready/yeasty complexity to maintain interest but not the noticeable residual sweetness that many “apple based†sparklers tend to exhibit, with loose but powerful yet fine mineral and lemon citrus acid. After drinking many Australian sparklers over the last few weeks, with the most impressive being the 2005 Domain Chandon, this wine's fineness and elegance on the finish made this wine easily the most impressive. 93/100
David was right!
Adair
When I put a bottle of NV Piper in the shopping cart a few weeks ago, my friend David looked at me with disgust and said that he was weaning his clients off "rubbish" like Piper and on to:
NV J. de Telmont Brut Sparkling (Champagne) - Cork - Very apple based, both red and green, with enough bready/yeasty complexity to maintain interest but not the noticeable residual sweetness that many “apple based†sparklers tend to exhibit, with loose but powerful yet fine mineral and lemon citrus acid. After drinking many Australian sparklers over the last few weeks, with the most impressive being the 2005 Domain Chandon, this wine's fineness and elegance on the finish made this wine easily the most impressive. 93/100
David was right!
Adair
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:06 am
[quote="wolf"]2001 Cullen Diana Madeleine: Possibly my best wine experience to date. Impenetrable colour. Nose leapt out of the glass with dark fruits, tabacco leaf, hint of oak. Incredible palate weight that I can still taste. No wonder JO gave it 97.
Wish the last bottle (of two remaining) I had opened like that but TCA had ****ed it - don't like cork seals!!
daz
Wish the last bottle (of two remaining) I had opened like that but TCA had ****ed it - don't like cork seals!!
daz
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:10 am
Gary W wrote:Adair wrote:
P.S. Back to Tahbilk Marsanne, I love that 2004.. although I think I somehow missed the 2003 vintage. I better rectify. Gary, when are you opening your vertical of Tahbilk Marsanne?
Soon. I'll let you know and have Dero-beat forewarned so they don't nab you as you come out clutching a number of brown paper bagged bottles...I think i have 99 through 07 but the winery has offered to fill backwards or any gaps etc. etc.
GW
Not many wineries can do that!