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2005 Delta Vineyard Pinot Noir Marlborough Clear, dark ruby-garnet. Drunk over several days. On day 1 this is a wine of phases on the nose and palate with oak and confected candy-apple fruit fighting for domination. On day 2 the wine had developed a sharp and slightly medicinal edge. On day 3 howev...

Picked up a couple of these recently at Dan Murphy. Put one at the back of the cellar, and opened the other with my father-in-law on Sunday night to celebrate his birthday with a Korean BBQ... Seppelt St.Peters Shiraz 2004 Three hours in the decanter, this inky dark wine gives up aromas of blueberry...

Oh god... is it Monday again already? Oh well, only 3 more days of the Tokyo winter, then it's 3 weeks of holiday sunshine at home on the Gold Coast.... 2005 Donnhoff Riesling The cheapest of the Donnhoff lineup, but superlative in every way. Intoxicating wine of light straw; and grassy aromatics, l...

Last weekend birthday wine... 1969 Bernard Tornay Champagne Brut Carte d'Or 70% Pinot Noir / 30% Chardonnay; Synthetic Cork Dark gold / amber, with a weak mousse and a very fine bead. The wife suggested plum-sake and cheese on the nose, my mother thought madeira; to my mind all these were present wi...

Mitchelton Print Label Shiraz 2002 With Lunch on Friday and I can definately see what all the fuss is about over this one. I had a 99 a few months back and while that was a good wine this was fantastic. Needs a good decant (which we didn't do) the last glass was by far the best and it was still bui...