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Continuing from the Brisbane offline thread...

I'll be in Adelaide next week, and am at a loose end on Thursday night the 13th before a 6am flight back to Brisbane the next morning.

Any interest in a quick offline on the Thursday night? N4Sir has suggested T-Chow, I'll go with that if it works,

cheers

Andrew

I'd be interested, and while I'm flexible re venues TChow is good and centrally located . Because its a thursday I'd suggest an early rather then a late start. The TChow seafood would complement the top white (Eden Valley reisling )from the Adelaide wine show that I'm keen to open- again!
regards chris.

The lady and I may be able to come. I've got an assignment due the next day though, so it will depend on how I'm going with that!

As you can gather from the other thread I'm interested. As I said there, T-Chow or for that matter a few places on/around Gouger St would be very easy to get into at reasonably short notice, corkage is cheap and we can just order things as we go like before.

Depending on how many are going & what the weather's like, I've got a few interesting things to choose from for this one.

Cheers,
Ian

Not much of a response so far, so it's time to bump this up again.

Chris, Paul & I are interested in meeting up with one of our Brisbane forumites, who else is interested?

Sorry it's a bad time of year for us tertiary edumacators...

If I can get over my current head-cold I'll be keen. Put me down as an 80% chance for now, with updates to follow.
Cheers
Nick

Gents, all confirmed now - flgiht back to brisbane leaves at about 6 the following morning

What wine styles work with the T-Chow food?

Unfortunately, Pam and myself will be interstate. Have a great night all.

Googled up Rooviews review and some others, I get the picture now. Some German riesling and maybe a pinot for the duck?

I am up for this.
Long time lurker.
Can probably find a 5-8 yr old Ashton Hills Pinot to bring along. (Not the 2000 though as had one of these last weekend and probably a bit past it....)
Have we settled on a time?

Wizz wrote:Googled up Rooviews review and some others, I get the picture now. Some German riesling and maybe a pinot for the duck?

I can probably belt down from the Barossa and say g'day Wizz....what time is kick off?

MattH wrote:I am up for this.
Long time lurker.
Can probably find a 5-8 yr old Ashton Hills Pinot to bring along. (Not the 2000 though as had one of these last weekend and probably a bit past it....)
Have we settled on a time?

DaveB wrote:

Wizz wrote:Googled up Rooviews review and some others, I get the picture now. Some German riesling and maybe a pinot for the duck?

I can probably belt down from the Barossa and say g'day Wizz....what time is kick off?

Good to see you can make it Dave and Matt - while it looks like it will be a smaller turnout of the usual suspects, it will be good to see some new faces. There's a good chance I could have +1-3 extra people too.

I'd say aim to arrive for a 7pm kick off time. Normally we just tend to order the food to match the wines as we go, so there could be something like peppercorn lamb to go with any gutsy reds later on. Normally we try to take a diverse range of wines, but the couple of pinots & German riesling mentioned are a good start.

So far we have going:

Wizz - German Riesling & a Pinot Noir
ck - Eden Valley Riesling
PaulG +1
Nick
MattH - Aged Ashton Hills Pinot Noir
DaveB
n4sir (+1-3)


Cheers,
Ian

All sounding good, however we're still tentative on the basis of these damned assignments I've got. I will let you know by Wednesday morning as to whether or not we are in or out. Hopefully we can make it!

Love to come along.

Count me in too!

PaulG wrote:All sounding good, however we're still tentative on the basis of these damned assignments I've got. I will let you know by Wednesday morning as to whether or not we are in or out. Hopefully we can make it!

Gavin Trott wrote:Love to come along.

Count me in too!

One of my extras has dropped out, so it's time for a quick update (and to bump this thread back up above this morning's spam attack):

So far we have going:

Wizz - German Riesling & a Pinot Noir
ck - Eden Valley Riesling
Nick
MattH - Aged Ashton Hills Pinot Noir
DaveB
Gavin Trott
n4sir (+2)
PaulG +1 (maybe)

Cheers,
Ian

Just letting everyone know I've booked the table at T-Chow for Thursday night, 7pm start.

At this stage I'm looking at taking a 1998 red Burgundy which should be an interesting comparison to the Ashton Hills - if that fails, maybe something a little older.

Also on the cards is something with Merlot - a magnum of 1991 Yaldara The Farms Merlot/Cabernet, maybe 1990/1991 Petaluma Coonawarra Merlot (which should cover my +2).

Of course I could completely change my mind in the next 48 hours...

Cheers,
Ian

Turns out I have less non-Burgundy pinot than I thought - a bottle of 05 Hillcrest Premium will wing its way to Adelaide with me. I had two boxes of German goodies arrive yesterday, Ill snaffle someting from one of them,

PaulG wrote:All sounding good, however we're still tentative on the basis of these damned assignments I've got. I will let you know by Wednesday morning as to whether or not we are in or out. Hopefully we can make it!

Any news yet Paul?

By the way, as usual it's BYO glasses (I'll take some for Wizz and my guests). The table is booked under Ian/Auswine forum.

Cheers,
Ian

Ps. Just as well it wasn't tonight - all the reds and pinots would struggle with this heat.

I'm afraid it's not looking likely, so sorry about this. One assignment done, but the other hasn't even been started and it's due Friday!

Hope you have a great night!

Just arrived and got myself tucked in. Sheesh, the heat!

Looking forward to tomorrow night.

For recognition, I'll be the lost looking guy, short mouse brown hair, 6'1" glasses, white shirt.

Andrew

Wizz wrote:Just arrived and got myself tucked in. Sheesh, the heat!

Looking forward to tomorrow night.

For recognition, I'll be the lost looking guy, short mouse brown hair, 6'1" glasses, white shirt.

Andrew

holding a bottle of German Riesling

Lincoln wrote:

Wizz wrote:Just arrived and got myself tucked in. Sheesh, the heat!

Looking forward to tomorrow night.

For recognition, I'll be the lost looking guy, short mouse brown hair, 6'1" glasses, white shirt.

Andrew

holding a bottle of German Riesling

Indeed

I'm still in....I'll bring a Failla Sonoma Pinot Noir that Mike (KMP) left me after we had dinner last Saturday......I should be on time...I have to wizz down to McLaren Vale and do some stuff tomorrow and do a staff tasting at a restaurant before I rock up.....I'll need a beer

DaveB wrote:I'm still in....I'll bring a Failla Sonoma Pinot Noir that Mike (KMP) left me after we had dinner last Saturday......I should be on time...I have to wizz down to McLaren Vale and do some stuff tomorrow and do a staff tasting at a restaurant before I rock up.....I'll need a beer

So will I - local meeting finishes at 3, then rush back to the hotel for a phone hookup with Brisbane!

I should be finished by about 6pm I reckon if you want to catch up for a bevvy before dinner Wizz....there is a new wine bar called "Cork Wine Cafe" at 61 Gouger St just across the road from T-Chow....we could meet up there?

Sorry I can't make it. Off work and doctors appointments coming up. I really enjoy the variety and interesting groups of wine that everyone brings along. I look forward to better luck at the next offline and I'll read your tasting notes and impressions with interest.
regards chris

ck wrote:Sorry I can't make it. Off work and doctors appointments coming up. I really enjoy the variety and interesting groups of wine that everyone brings along. I look forward to better luck at the next offline and I'll read your tasting notes and impressions with interest.
regards chris

Bugger - sorry to hear that Chris.

Looks like we're down to 6-8 people then - with the EV riesling gone I'll probably something white along too. Still making up my mind what though - with the dropping numbers and the growing pinot theme I might skip the merlot this time...

Wizz - German Riesling & 05 Hillcrest Premium Pinot Noir
Nick -
MattH - Aged Ashton Hills Pinot Noir
DaveB - Failla Sonoma Pinot Noir
Gavin Trott -
n4sir (maybe +2) - red Burgundy, probably a white too

Cheers,
Ian

I've got an Eden Valley Riesling packed along with a Samuel's Gorge Tempranillo, so we don't need the replacement Riesling. But more is always better...

Cheers
Nick

My +2 have dropped out so now we're down to six - on the bright side there's less glasses I have to carry there and back.

Wizz - German Riesling & 05 Hillcrest Premium Pinot Noir
Nick - Eden Valley Riesling & Samuel's Gorge Tempranillo
MattH - Aged Ashton Hills Pinot Noir
DaveB - Failla Sonoma Pinot Noir
Gavin Trott - ?
n4sir - Aged red Burgundy, probably a white too.

Cheers,
Ian