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Bargain!, so i thought, so at $15pb per carton delivered. i bought the......

Starvedog Lne 2007 Shiraz Viognier.

Now, with all the bling, Gold at the Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne was it? anyway it had four "goldies" plus
A trophy, plus it was Winefront's "Red wine of the Year 2009". I tried it at an instore show about 9 months ago and
thought wow,these guys have nailed it, but....

Upon cracking my first of the carton i received last week and after an hours decant, where was the fruit?, the wine
tasted very "linear", it tasted a tad green, the oak hadn't blown the fruit out of the water,there were tannins, but not
big and harsh if you know what i mean. It just tasted of nothing. I hoped it would reveal itself as time went on, but no,
it didn't. I cracked a second hoping the first was an abberation,but no it tasted just the same. I then decanted the
wine back into the bottle and popped it into the fridge hoping to see something "shine through" the next day., but
it only got worse....

So where/what went wrong?, has the wine been stored badly? Cooked( what doed cooked wine taste like? Jammy?)
Is it going through a shy stage? or have i just been plainly unlucky?

Surely all those judges couldn't have got it so wrong, or could they?

and what to do with the rest?, bung it on the secondary market ,save it for the in-laws or just sit on it
for a while?

Cheers S

Stavros wrote:

It just tasted of nothing.

Cheers S

Sounds like an improvement on any $15 Shiraz/Viognier that I have ever tasted.

Roger

Stavros wrote:Bargain!, so i thought, so at $15pb per carton delivered. i bought the......

Starvedog Lne 2007 Shiraz Viognier.

Now, with all the bling, Gold at the Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne was it? anyway it had four "goldies" plus
A trophy, plus it was Winefront's "Red wine of the Year 2009". I tried it at an instore show about 9 months ago and
thought wow,these guys have nailed it, but....

Upon cracking my first of the carton i received last week and after an hours decant, where was the fruit?, the wine
tasted very "linear", it tasted a tad green, the oak hadn't blown the fruit out of the water,there were tannins, but not
big and harsh if you know what i mean. It just tasted of nothing. I hoped it would reveal itself as time went on, but no,
it didn't. I cracked a second hoping the first was an abberation,but no it tasted just the same. I then decanted the
wine back into the bottle and popped it into the fridge hoping to see something "shine through" the next day., but
it only got worse....

So where/what went wrong?, has the wine been stored badly? Cooked( what doed cooked wine taste like? Jammy?)
Is it going through a shy stage? or have i just been plainly unlucky?

Surely all those judges couldn't have got it so wrong, or could they?

and what to do with the rest?, bung it on the secondary market ,save it for the in-laws or just sit on it
for a while?

Cheers S

Sounds like simply a wine you don't like. The in laws it is old son.

The Big Red Wine Book 2010 red of the year, not Wine Front. Sounds cooked. Or wrong. And why was it $15? And where did you buy it? Had the wine a few times (it's about 93 points for me but CM was a strong advocate and I don't disagree with him - i.e. can see the charm but it has viognier in it ). Sold out pretty quickly and they don't make too much - few thousand cases.

GW

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Isn't it funny how some wines that do so well in wine shows somehow don't live up to their reputation.

If memory serves me correctly, I think the 2006 vintage also caused a bit of a stink at the winemakers/judges dinner after it took out the Max Schubert trophy for best red at the Adelaide Wine Show a few years ago.

I heard that a group of winemakers upon trying the wine couldn't believe it won a medal let alone best red of the show, and one of them (who's usually mild-mannered) was so outraged he confronted the head judge (who turned up his nose, turned his back and walked away without saying a word).

Cheers,
Ian

n4sir wrote:Isn't it funny how some wines that do so well in wine shows somehow don't live up to their reputation.

If memory serves me correctly, I think the 2006 vintage also caused a bit of a stink at the winemakers/judges dinner after it took out the Max Schubert trophy for best red at the Adelaide Wine Show a few years ago.

I heard that a group of winemakers upon trying the wine couldn't believe it won a medal let alone best red of the show, and one of them (who's usually mild-mannered) was so outraged he confronted the head judge (who turned up his nose, turned his back and walked away without saying a word).

Cheers,
Ian

Yes Ian, that's far more likely than the wine being f*cked via a knock out $15 deal. It's described above not as being an average wine, but one that's hopelessly flawed. I've had it from three bottles....CM the same.
GW

Open another bottle for a start. If it's no good, show it to someone else to get their opinion on what might be wrong.

I had two bottles of wine recently that people might have just presumed to have been very ordinary, but because I knew the wines and knew those bottles were not representative, I opened another bottle of each and salvaged their reputation. In these cases they were cork faults that weren't obviously showing cork taint ...