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JamieAdelaide wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:09 am I’m spending a lot of time in CBR so thanks Rooman. Will try this!

I just loved how eccentric the whole experience was. Clearly the owner loves cooking but I suspect just can’t fund himself into a proper restaurant of his own so he cooks for locals in his little cafe each night.

Hi, I was in Canberra a month ago and had a bizarre but highly enjoyable eight course degustation dinner at a small BYO cafe two locals took me to called VIIN in Pearce. During the day the owner who is Vietnamese but French trained runs an extremely low key unpretentious cafe selling coffees and cro...

988AE98F-2969-4F50-972F-2D3374B4ED01.jpeg Finally got around to ordering a few bottles of this. There is a young sparkler as well to try. If you like old white wine, then you’ll love this. It’s the current vintage, costs $20 and is showing its age. That means tangerine and earthy notes in the mid p...

...... this is why I do not buy any cabernet, shiraz or 'big" red under screw-cap. I have had this similar experience as often as I have had TCA'd wines sealed under cork. Love SC for whites, I am ambivalent but hopeful for pinot under SC, but no way does that seal work for big red wines. Give...

...... this is why I do not buy any cabernet, shiraz or 'big" red under screw-cap. I have had this similar experience as often as I have had TCA'd wines sealed under cork. Love SC for whites, I am ambivalent but hopeful for pinot under SC, but no way does that seal work for big red wines. Give...

2010 Petaluma Coonawarra. This bottle was quite flat and uninviting. Gave very little away despite a 2+ hours Decant. Still quite a bit of cedar on the nose. Very thin palate....austere or stringent if you will. Lacking fruit and weight. Can help but thinking this was faulty in some way....dumb pha...

. 2010 Petaluma Coonawarra. This bottle was quite flat and uninviting. Gave very little away despite a 2+ hours Decant. Still quite a bit of cedar on the nose. Very thin palate....austere or stringent if you will. Lacking fruit and weight. Can help but thinking this was faulty in some way....dumb p...

I have 3 of the Polish Hill and apparently 6 of the 2012 springvale .. all untouched I think. I suspect I will end up only a bit meh about Grosset riesling but I have a lot in the cellar to find out (the value is hard to resist for such benchmark wines, and I love the Gaia which is comparatively un...

Bouchard Baby Jesus 2005 - massive bouquet deep forest notes, the fruit is still tightly coiled around the tannins, not unpleasant but opened way to early. Could almost be a Bordeaux on a blind tasting. Won’t open another for 7-10 years at which time it should be a something pretty impressive.

Most is offsite at Kennards in climate control storage. I've also got a wine fridge at home. I use this for drink now wine and purchases before they go offsite. Cheers Con. This is pretty much the same as me. Con, which Kennards do you use? I’m at the Chatswood one. A year or two ago I found out a ...

Allan Based on one of the 2013 vintage I opened recently from my cellar, I would agree with your timeline. it really does seem that those wines take a considerable length of time to develop. The 2013 was pale greenish yellow with almost no secondary development. Unless driven by need, I can't see my...

Cactus wrote:i think I bought 3x 6 packs too on the hype. Havent bought this years St Henri.

The 2010 was still affordable for what it is. Not sure about the current prices.

Oh god, looking in my cellar i purchased 14 on release. Half s.c half cork. Too much shiraz :shock: I did the same thing and picked up 3 6 packs when DM was selling it as around $65 pb. I know from a wine broker it’s trading over $200 at times. I always figured I’d sell 1 6pack to cover the other t...

I opened one of the Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Riesling 2005 on Sunday to go chicken because it was sitting in the fridge. Probably the best riesling I have had all year :shock: Just superb, sunflower yellow hue, fresh crisp bouquet like walking through an apple orchard on a spring day, the wine on t...

Got say that the couple of times I've Selosse it's been just ok, it's not style I like. Good to hear the Voyager's traveling well, got a couple of these in the cellar somewhere. Cheers Con. For me, Selosse is the Wendouree of Champagne. I just don’t get the fuss. That said, oxidative styles are not...

1996 Penfolds 707 in the flight with the Jacaranda, this was certainly bettered. Nice polished wine, but too oaky for my palate, and a little clipped at the finish. No better than good to very good. 90pts 1996 Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon another ripping Aussie Cab, drinking right at it's peak. Lov...

We finished with the 2004 Voyager Cab Merlot . Yum! Blackcurrant, dark plum, cigar box, length to burn. An absolute joy to drink, and transcends the previous two wines we had. This is close to the best cab I have had this year. Unanimous wine of the night. I think the Voyager Cab Merlots are seriou...

separately i'm interested to know if anyone has opened a bottle recently?

Redav wrote:So, I couldn't help but notice that this has appeared and it's discounted price is 2.5 times what punters were getting it for when released. I had hoped to pick up one but not now.

/threadmine

Redav

I think something is missing?

Hi Mark. Yes this was very enjoyable, Just starting in it's drinking window for my taste. I've been guilty of of doing what you done, drinking a wine just for the sake of drinking it. A long time ago I've actually used a few bottles of 2000 and 2001 Bin 389 for cooking because I wasn't enjoying the...

Mark, with out poking the bear again in the Rockford thread, the tips for collecting thread, I am actually really happy that 75% + of all the wines I have purchased are either in 6 or 12...yes might mean I have got to get stuck in, but should have plenty in the drinking window. Don't know if its to...

Mark, with out poking the bear again in the Rockford thread, the tips for collecting thread, I am actually really happy that 75% + of all the wines I have purchased are either in 6 or 12...yes might mean I have got to get stuck in, but should have plenty in the drinking window. Don't know if its to...

Con, what was the particular bottle of Petaluma that the photo of the cork belonged to? cheers Craig Hi Craig. This was a 2001 Petaluma Coonawarra. Cheers Con. Interesting wine. I learnt two lessons from this particular wine. The first is how long sometimes decent cab sav takes to emerge from its s...

I have been collecting/cellaring wine for about 2 years now. As a rookie wine collector I am interested in whether you have any tips on how to build a good collection that I will be able to enjoy in 5, 10, 20 and 30 years time? I am 33 years of age, so I hopefully have many years to collect and dri...

Having worked in the industry, the people who can afford to go out mid to early week are often quite different from those who go out on Friday and Saturday night. I walk around Bondi during the week and know which are BYO and those that aren't. Early in the week, restaurants like Brown Sugar, Pompe...

and you made a proper effort to show them that good hospitality can work in both directions! Such attitudes go a long way to changing mindsets. For those places struggling on a Mon/Tue/Wed, then it really does make sense to start having a BYO evening, as 60 customers will be much better than 10, ev...

I dont wish to engage on the above discussion but I do have similar problems eating out and buying wines off wine lists that are over priced, far too young and not ready to drink. It seems that BYO restaurants are shrinking on a daily basis in Sydney and yet so many restaurants would rather sit emp...

Sage advice. We pretty much avoid eating out for the very same reason - overpriced wine, and all far too young. After all our cellaring my better half and I can drink modest 15-20 year old wine from all over the world, whether Rioja, Chianti, or Cotes du Rhone, and because we stuck to reputable pro...

JamieBahrain wrote:

Far more attention was received at my BBQ yesterday for the BP than my Giacomo Conterno. .

Gez, I want an invite to your BBQs and I will stand right next to you and force myself to drink Barolo. Someone has to make sacrifices so it might as well be me.

Hi Polymer I'm guessing this thread wouldn't have degenerated as it did, had you not started by saying "Don't buy to cellar". Whether intentionally or unintentionally, that was a provocative entrance to the thread, and it's influenced how this thread went. Maybe I'm missing something. Hav...