1988 greenock creek shiraz

[kwine]

I saw a post the other day , with someone asking a value for a bottle,
just looking for discussion , not where the auction houses are ,
they are secondary passengers to the wine industry , and I give them no credence..........

I have a magnum 1.5 litre and a 3 litre of 88 greenock creek shiraz , thier inaugural release . I bought them at the cellar door , well before they were parkerised and thier prices went way north , beyond their true value .
they have been in my cellar since 1990 , at a constant temperate 14 c
shoulders are good

any idea on what they are worth ???

[dazza1968]

Good Lord I have no idea

Regards Dazza

[ChrisV]

No idea on a firm number, but they'd be worth a lot if you found the right buyer I think. It might be worth looking at trying to sell them to a US buyer. By the way I don't think the 1988 was the inaugural release. Greenock Creek's first vintage was 1986 - released in 1988.

[n4sir]

I saw a post the other day , with someone asking a value for a bottle,
just looking for discussion , not where the auction houses are ,
they are secondary passengers to the wine industry , and I give them no credence..........

I have a magnum 1.5 litre and a 3 litre of 88 greenock creek shiraz , thier inaugural release . I bought them at the cellar door , well before they were parkerised and thier prices went way north , beyond their true value .
they have been in my cellar since 1990 , at a constant temperate 14 c
shoulders are good

any idea on what they are worth ???

The only 1988 Greenock Creek Shiraz magnum I've seen was a 1.5L bottle Mark Wickman bought at Oddbins auctions about four and a half years ago - I vaguely remember it being listed as mid-high hundreds (about $140-170) and I think he paid at the lower end of that. When he picked it up the fill level was lower than he was expecting (about VVHS which wasn't listed), and he shared it with us soon after at the Cos offline where it was WOTN:


http://forum.auswine.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=2588

1988 Greenock Creek Shiraz (Magnum): Made from the original Creek Block. Dark red colour with a hint of brick on the rim. An open, complex and dusty nose, with hints of barnyard, dark roasted nuts, camphor, diesel, balsamic vinegar, salted celery, fish sauce and violets. The palate has a soft entry and a big, spicy, slow-crawling texture of smoky blackberries, finishing long and warm with that hint of celery and pepper with air. Mark had reservations about the Magnum when he got it, but the wine was superb; a beautifully complex and powerful wine with modest alcohol (13.2%), and an interesting follow-on from the new release Greenock Creeks we’ve been drooling over. My other favourite wine of the night.

Mark did a little riniging around, and was told what went into this wine would now be in the Creek Block - it was brilliant and probably quite different from today's supercharged wines, yet it doesn't have the vintage reputation of the 1990 (where 1.5L/3.0L bottles sold for $351/$826 interstate in 2006) or the full Parker-effect post 1995, which makes it a pretty hard item to value. Langtons and Sterlings don't list the 1988s in their price guide history, so it will take an educated guess at best.

Good luck with the valuation and sale, although if I were you would I'd be tempted to keep at least one of them to try.

Cheers,
Ian