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Agree with Heaps Normal beer - it’s excellent. I simply enjoy the bitterness and taste of beer so welcome a good zero beer from time to time.

Victory Hotel?

I try and arrange by producer and/or country (eg. I have all Italians in one area) and slant towards longer term at bottom and earlier drinking nearer the top (every bit of temperature advantage helps I figure…)

Unfortunately that’s the nature of farming...

Friends of mine raved about Little Rickshaw in Aldinga for a meal. Might be worth considering

On the Shiraz blends the flippers must make fly-buy points only? $57 a bottle with delivery break even nearly $70 at auction to cover commissions. Not much in it? The logic is that most people only want the shiraz, however an order for only shiraz is unlikely to be successful. So people order all t...

6 x Craiglee 2017 Cabernet 6 x Coldstream Hills Deer Farm Pinot 2019 Interesting - did you go for any of the Shiraz as well? Thinking about dipping in for a few of several of the wines in their range... Cabernet was always such a great and cellarable wine. I’ve probably still got some really old on...

6 x Craiglee 2017 Cabernet
6 x Coldstream Hills Deer Farm Pinot 2019

Full order - delivered yesterday. 18 bottles. 7 years on the list. Full order every year except the very first. Pleased. Taking nothing for granted.

Charged mid / late last week for me - but still awaiting delivery. Hopefully any day now

I’d pick the 96 389 over the 98!
But neither in the top echelon, I’d expect (although to be fair the 96 389 is quite the dark horse)

3 x Lamella
3 x Standish

Think I responded within about 5 minutes of the email though!

I gather it’s being rolled out here but not sure. It’s probably well worth what you paid for it.

I had a bottle of that champagne on the weekend. Ok. A touch on the sweet side but decent enough. Marginally preferred the Mumm NV I tried after it.

No cellar tracking system (yet) but on observation, big names:

Seppelt
Wynns
Coldstream Hills
Wendouree
Rockford
Mount Pleasant
Hoddles Creek
Spinifex
Marius
Curly Flat
An increasing power bloc of Italian stuff

6 x Oakridge original vineyard cab 2017
6 x Spinifex Syrah 2018
6 x Coldstream Hills reserve Shiraz 2015

Bought a dozen of these, I was so impressed. Unusual for me.

The continuity of Wendouree is a very real discussion point. Especially given its place in the Australian wine scene...

Had this recently and agree it is a very good wine. I feel it is in the drink-now zone though, based on the well kept bottle I tried.

+1
I actually think that’s my favourite of their wines with age.

wines from Qantas on the way over to LAX from MEL. 2007 Tattinger Comtes de Champagne This marque is absolutely one of my favourites, but the 07 is a relatively weak release, and certainly not a patch on the 02,04 and 06. Seems to me to lack the drive and complexity of the great years. 89pts 2017 P...

6 x Seppelt Drumborg Riesling ‘19

3 2012 Fraser Gallop Parterre Cabernet
3 2018 Seppeltsfield Grenache
3 2012 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
1 2015 Bannockburn Shiraz
2 2017 Mt Langi Cliff Edge Shiraz

6 x 2017 Coldstream Hills Esplanade Pinot

Had two bottles of the 05 in recent years. One so-so, one excellent - and with time to go too.

Yeah I’ve seen this in the past from my old cellar which was literally a room in the middle of the house underthe kitchen, with no ventilation. Have not seen this capsule mould in our current cellar which is also not vented to the outside but does have a door to the foot of a flight of stairs, which...

12 x Montalto 2017 Pinots to break a decent purchase fast (nothing in Jan)

I pretty much translate this as “how would I make my cellar better” as I’m pretty happy with it as it is -

Simple answer is more Italian wines.

I think:

80% Australian
10% Italian
7% French
3% German

Hoping to cut back the Australian %age a touch over the coming years.

Buy less. Simple. A couple of years of excessive wine spending and it’s time to re-enter a drink > buy phase.